Quantum Programming
Jeff W. Sanders, Paolo Zuliani · IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) · 2000
In this paper a programming language, qGCL, is presented for the expression of quantum algorithms. It contains the features required to program a 'universal' quantum computer (including initialisation and observation), has a formal semantics and body of laws, and provides a refinement calculus supporting the verification and derivation of programs against their specifications. A representative selection of quantum algorithms are expressed in the language and one of them is derived from its specification.