A Language for Quantifying Quantum Network Behavior
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Quantum networks have capabilities that are impossible to achieve using only classical information. They connect quantum capable nodes, with their fundamental unit of communication being the \emph{Bell pair}, a pair of entangled quantum bits. Due to the nature of quantum phenomena, Bell pairs are fragile and difficult to transmit over long distances, thus requiring a network of repeaters along with dedicated hardware and software to ensure the desired results. The intrinsic challenges associated with quantum networks, such as competition over shared resources and high probabilities of failure, require quantitative reasoning about quantum network protocols. This paper develops PBKAT, an expressive language for specification, verification and optimization of quantum network protocols for Bell pair distribution. Our language is equipped with primitives for expressing probabilistic and possibilistic behaviors, and with semantics modeling protocol executions. We establish the properties of PBKAT’s semantics, which we use for quantitative analysis of protocol behavior. We further implement a tool to automate PBKAT’s usage, which we evaluated on real-world protocols drawn from the literature. Our results indicate that PBKAT is well suited for both expressing real-world quantum network protocols and reasoning about their quantitative properties.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
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10:30 - 12:15 | |||
10:30 15mTalk | AccelerQ: Accelerating Quantum Eigensolvers With Machine Learning on Quantum Simulators OOPSLA Avner Bensoussan King's College London, Elena Chachkarova Kings College London, Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Sophie Fortz King's College London, Connor Lenihan King's College London | ||
10:45 15mTalk | A Language for Quantifying Quantum Network Behavior OOPSLA Anita Buckley USI Lugano, Pavel Chuprikov Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Rodrigo Otoni USI Lugano, Robert Soulé Yale University, Robert Rand University of Chicago, Patrick Eugster USI Lugano, Switzerland | ||
11:00 15mTalk | Compositional Quantum Control Flow with Efficient Compilation in Qunity OOPSLA Mikhail Mints California Institute of Technology, Finn Voichick University of Maryland, Leonidas Lampropoulos University of Maryland, College Park, Robert Rand University of Chicago | ||
11:15 15mTalk | Dependency-Aware Compilation for Surface Code Quantum Architectures OOPSLA Abtin Molavi University of Wisconsin-Madison, Amanda Xu University of Wisconsin-Madison, Swamit Tannu University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aws Albarghouthi University of Wisconsin-Madison | ||
11:30 15mTalk | QbC: Quantum Correctness by Construction OOPSLA | ||
11:45 15mTalk | qblaze: An Efficient and Scalable Sparse Quantum Simulator OOPSLA Hristo Venev INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Thien Udomsrirungruang University of Oxford, Dimitar Dimitrov INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Timon Gehr ETH Zurich, Martin Vechev ETH Zurich | ||
12:00 15mTalk | Shaking Up Quantum Simulators with Fuzzing and Rigour OOPSLA Vasileios Klimis Queen Mary University of London, Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Avner Bensoussan King's College London, Elena Chachkarova Kings College London, Sophie Fortz King's College London, Connor Lenihan King's College London |