ReQWIRE: Reasoning about Reversible Quantum Circuits

Robert Rand, Jennifer Paykin, Dong-Ho Lee, Steve Zdancewic
2019 Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science  
Common quantum algorithms make heavy use of ancillae: scratch qubits that are initialized at some state and later returned to that state and discarded. Existing quantum circuit languages let programmers assert that a qubit has been returned to the |0> state before it is discarded, allowing for a range of optimizations. However, existing languages do not provide the tools to verify these assertions, introducing a potential source of errors. In this paper we present methods for verifying that
more » ... llae are discarded in the desired state, and use these methods to implement a verified compiler from classical functions to quantum oracles.
doi:10.4204/eptcs.287.17 fatcat:fn6c7r4nnfdejpbqycg5545bju