A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture

Robert S. Smith, Michael J. Curtis, William J. Zeng
8/11/2016
quant-phcs.ETcs.PL

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Abstract

We introduce an abstract machine architecture for classical/quantum computations---including compilation---along with a quantum instruction language called Quil for explicitly writing these computations. With this formalism, we discuss concrete implementations of the machine and non-trivial algorithms targeting them. The introduction of this machine dovetails with ongoing development of quantum computing technology, and makes possible portable descriptions of recent classical/quantum algorithms.

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@article{smith2016practical,
  title  = {A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture},
  author = {Robert S. Smith and Michael J. Curtis and William J. Zeng},
  year   = {2016},
  eprint = {1608.03355},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03355}
}

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