Toward an architecture for quantum programming

Details Toward an architecture for quantum programming Toward an architecture for quantum programming

2001-03-08

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0103009v3

Eur. Phys. J. D, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 181-200 (2003)

Computer Science

Programming Languages

23 pages, 5 figures, A4paper. Final version accepted by EJPD ("swap" replaced by "invert" for Qops). Preliminary implementatio

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjd/e2003-00242-2

It is becoming increasingly clear that, if a useful device for quantum computation will ever be built, it will be embodied by a classical computing machine with control over a truly quantum subsystem, this apparatus performing a mixture of classical and quantum computation. This paper investigates a possible approach to the problem of programming such machines: a template high level quantum language is presented which complements a generic general purpose classical language with a set of quantum primitives. The underlying scheme involves a run-time environment which calculates the byte-code for the quantum operations and pipes it to a quantum device controller or to a simulator. This language can compactly express existing quantum algorithms and reduce them to sequences of elementary operations; it also easily lends itself to automatic, hardware independent, circuit simplification. A publicly available preliminary implementation of the proposed ideas has been realized using the C++ language.

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