Open AccessConventions for quantum pseudocode
Author(s) -
E. Knill
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/366453
Subject(s) - computer science , quantum , extension (predicate logic) , programming language , theoretical computer science , theoretical physics , quantum mechanics , physics
A few conventions for thinking about and writing quantum pseudocode are proposed. The conventions can be used for presenting any quantum algorithm down to the lowest level and are consistent with a quantum random access machine (QRAM) model for quantum computing. In principle a formal version of quantum pseudocode could be used in a future extension of a conventional language