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On the Hardness of Analyzing Quantum Programs Quantitatively

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In this paper, we study quantitative properties of quantum programs. Properties of interest include (positive) almost-sure termination, expected runtime or expected cost, that is, for example, the expected number of applications of a given quantum gate, etc. After studying the completeness of these problems in the arithmetical hierarchy over the Clifford+T fragment of quantum mechanics, we express these problems using a variation of a quantum pre-expectation transformer, a weakest precondition based technique that allows to symbolically compute these quantitative properties. Under a smooth restriction-a restriction to polynomials of bounded degree over a real closed field-we show that the quantitative problem, which consists in finding an upper-bound to the pre-expectation, can be decided in time double-exponential in the size of a program, thus providing, despite its great complexity, one of the first decidable results on the analysis and verification of quantum programs. Finally, we sketch how the latter can be transformed into an efficient synthesis method.
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hal-04349874 , version 1 (20-12-2023)

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Martin Avanzini, Georg Moser, Romain Péchoux, Simon Perdrix. On the Hardness of Analyzing Quantum Programs Quantitatively. 2023. ⟨hal-04349874⟩
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