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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.51
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-155627
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/15562/
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Lee, Dongho ; Perrelle, Valentin ; Valiron, Benoît ; Xu, Zhaowei

Concrete Categorical Model of a Quantum Circuit Description Language with Measurement

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce dynamic lifting to a quantum circuit-description language, following the Proto-Quipper language approach. Dynamic lifting allows programs to transfer the result of measuring quantum data - qubits - into classical data - booleans -. We propose a type system and an operational semantics for the language and we state safety properties. Next, we introduce a concrete categorical semantics for the proposed language, basing our approach on a recent model from Rios&Selinger for Proto-Quipper-M. Our approach is to construct on top of a concrete category of circuits with measurements a Kleisli category, capturing as a side effect the action of retrieving classical content out of a quantum memory. We then show a soundness result for this semantics.

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@InProceedings{lee_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.51,
  author =	{Lee, Dongho and Perrelle, Valentin and Valiron, Beno\^{i}t and Xu, Zhaowei},
  title =	{{Concrete Categorical Model of a Quantum Circuit Description Language with Measurement}},
  booktitle =	{41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2021)},
  pages =	{51:1--51:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-215-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{213},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czy, Miko{\l}aj and Chekuri, Chandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/15562},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-155627},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.51},
  annote =	{Keywords: Categorical semantics, Operational semantics, Quantum circuit description language}
}

Keywords: Categorical semantics, Operational semantics, Quantum circuit description language
Collection: 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 29.11.2021

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