Quantum computers are expected to surpass the computational capabilities of classical
computers during this decade and have transformative impact on numerous industry sectors …

The past decade has witnessed significant advancements in quantum hardware,
encompassing improvements in speed, qubit quantity, and quantum volume—a metric …

Quantum software plays a critical role in exploiting the full potential of quantum computing
systems. As a result, it has been drawing increasing attention recently. This paper defines …

Quantum computing (QC) is a new paradigm offering the potential of exponential speedups
over classical computing for certain computational problems. Each additional qubit doubles …

Existing quantum languages force the programmer to work at a low level of abstraction
leading to unintuitive and cluttered code. A fundamental reason is that dropping temporary …

We present VOQC, the first fully verified optimizer for quantum circuits, written using the Coq
proof assistant. Quantum circuits are expressed as programs in a simple, low-level language …

Existing quantum compilers optimize quantum circuits by applying circuit transformations
designed by experts. This approach requires significant manual effort to design and …

Optimizing quantum circuits is challenging due to the very large search space of functionally
equivalent circuits and the necessity of applying transformations that temporarily decrease …

CoqQ is a framework for reasoning about quantum programs in the Coq proof assistant. Its
main components are: a deeply embedded quantum programming language, in which …

Benchmarking is how the performance of a computing system is determined. Surprisingly,
even for classical computers this is not a straightforward process. One must choose the …