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Toward automatic verification of quantum programs

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This paper summarises the results obtained by the author and his collaborators in a program logic approach to the verification of quantum programs, including quantum Hoare logic, invariant generation and termination analysis for quantum programs. It also introduces the notion of proof outline and several auxiliary rules for more conveniently reasoning about quantum programs. Some problems for future research are proposed at the end of the paper.

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Acknowledgements

The author likes to thank Professors Martin Fränzle, DeepakKapur and NaijunZhan for invitingme to give a talk at SETTA’2016. This work was partly supported by the Australian Research Council (Grant No: DP160101652) and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Centre for Quantum Software and Information, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Mingsheng Ying

  3. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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Ying, M. Toward automatic verification of quantum programs. Form Asp Comp 31, 3–25 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00165-018-0465-3

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Keywords

  • Quantum programming
  • Hoare logic
  • Proof outline
  • Auxiliary rules
  • Invariant generation
  • Termination analysis