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June 22, 2013

The Quipper Language [Quantum Computing]

Filed under: Computation,Computer Science,Functional Programming,Programming,Quantum — Patrick Durusau @ 5:26 pm

The Quipper Language

From the webpage:

Quipper is an embedded, scalable functional programming language for quantum computing. It provides, among other things:

  • A high-level circuit description language. This includes gate-by-gate descriptions of circuit fragments, as well as powerful operators for assembling and manipulating circuits.
  • A monadic semantics, allowing for a mixture of procedural and declarative programming styles.
  • Built-in facilities for automatic synthesis of reversible quantum circuits, including from classical code.
  • Support for hierarchical circuits.
  • Extensible quantum data types.
  • Programmable circuit transformers.
  • Support for three execution phases: compile time, circuit generation time, and circuit execution time. A dynamic lifting operation to allow circuit generation to be parametric on values generated at circuit execution time.
  • Extensive libraries of quantum functions, including: libraries for quantum integer and fixed-point arithmetic; the Quantum Fourier transform; an efficient Qram implementation; libraries for simulation of pseudo-classical circuits, Stabilizer circuits, and arbitrary circuits; libraries for exact and approximate decomposition of circuits into specific gate sets.

The website has a Quipper tutorial, online documentation and a detailed look at the language itself.

No link for a quantum computer but that isn’t very far off.

Learn Quipper now and perhaps you can lead the first Apache project to develop open source software for a quantum computer.

I first saw this in a tweet by Jose A. Alonso.

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