Reasoning about Entanglement and Separability in Quantum Higher-Order Functions

  • Authors:
  • Frédéric Prost;Chaouki Zerrari

  • Affiliations:
  • Grenoble Université, LIG, France;VERIMAG, Grenoble Université, France

  • Venue:
  • UC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Unconventional Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a logical approach to the separability analysis issue for a functional quantum computation language. This logic is inspired by previous works on logical analysis of aliasing for imperative functional programs. Both analyses share similarities notably because they are highly non-compositional. Nevertheless, the intrisic non determinism of quantum computation has a large impact on the definitions of the semantics and the validity of logical assertions. To the knowledge of the authors, it is the first proposal of an entanglement/separability analysis for a functional quantum programming language with higher-order functions.