Toward an architecture for quantum programming
<|reference_start|>Toward an architecture for quantum programming: It is becoming increasingly clear that, if a useful device for quantum computation will ever be built, it will be embodied by a classical computing machine with control over a truly quantum subsystem, this apparatus performing a mixture of classical and quantum computation.   This paper investigates a possible approach to the problem of programming such machines: a template high level quantum language is presented which complements a generic general purpose classical language with a set of quantum primitives. The underlying scheme involves a run-time environment which calculates the byte-code for the quantum operations and pipes it to a quantum device controller or to a simulator.   This language can compactly express existing quantum algorithms and reduce them to sequences of elementary operations; it also easily lends itself to automatic, hardware independent, circuit simplification. A publicly available preliminary implementation of the proposed ideas has been realized using the C++ language.<|reference_end|>
@article{bettelli2001toward,
    title={Toward an architecture for quantum programming},
    author={S. Bettelli, L. Serafini, T. Calarco},
    journal={Eur. Phys. J. D, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 181-200 (2003)},
    year={2001},
    doi={10.1140/epjd/e2003-00242-2},
    number={IRST technical report 0103-010},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0103009},
    primaryClass={cs.PL quant-ph}
}