11 papers
Resource Estimation for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Programs
Bonan Su, Yuan Feng, Li Zhou +1
Fault-tolerant quantum computation enables the deployment of practical quantum algorithms but incurs substantial overhead from error correction, making resource estimation a centra…
Reasoning about Continuous-Variable Quantum Systems
Tianshi Yu, Gilles Barthe, Minbo Gao +2
Continuous-variable quantum computing (CVQC) is a computing paradigm in which measurements yield values over a continuous domain. CVQC is both a convenient omputational framework f…
Verifying Adversarial Robustness in Quantum Machine Learning: from theory to physical validation via a software tool
Ji Guan, Mingsheng Ying
As with classical neural networks, quantum machine learning (QML) models are vulnerable to small input perturbations that can significantly alter output predictions. Certifying the…
A Compilation Framework for Quantum Simulation of Non-unitary Dynamics
Qifan Huang, Minbo Gao, Li Zhou +1
Most quantum compilers assume programs are reversible unitary circuits. This fits closed-system algorithms, but not open-system simulation, where the natural program objects are qu…
QSeqSim: A Symbolic Simulator for Qiskit While Loops Using Sequential Quantum Circuits
Zihao Li, Ji Guan, Mingsheng Ying
We present a tool QSeqSim, a Qiskit-integrated symbolic backend that fills the current gap of having no Qiskit-native support for simulating while-loop quantum programs and their i…
A Practical Quantum Hoare Logic with Classical Variables, I
Mingsheng Ying
In this paper, we present a Hoare-style logic for reasoning about quantum programs with classical variables. Our approach offers several improvements over previous work: (1) Enhanc…