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Wed 17 Jun 2026 11:10 - 11:30 at Flatirons 4 - Quantum Computing

As quantum computing becomes an emerging reality, designing efficient quantum programming capabilities is becoming more and more important. Particularly, the debugging and validation of quantum programs is of paramount importance, as these programs are by definition hard to test. Static analysis and formal verification methods for quantum programs started to emerge a few years now, yet they often miss hybrid quantum/classical reasoning facilities with, e.g., generic quantum control, classical control and classical computation instructions. In this paper, we lay out the foundations of a framework for the automated formal verification of (full) hybrid quantum programs featuring both classical and quantum control, measurement and hybrid data structures. In particular, we propose: (1) a novel symbolic representation for describing and manipulating sets of hybrid quantum/classical states called Hybrid Path-Sums (HPS); (2) a set of rewriting rules providing a rich mechanism for simplifying and reasoning on these symbolic hybrid states, and (3) a core assertion language to specify equivalence of hybrid quantum programs, the satisfaction of properties on (parts of) hybrid states, and the extraction of probabilistic statements about the program behavior. We prove the correctness of the novel symbolic representation, of its rewriting system and of the specification system. Finally, we propose a full implementation of this framework as a dedicated symbolic execution engine for hybrid programs. We present an evaluation of a set of representative hybrid case-studies from the literature, showcasing the advantage of our approach and its efficiency compared to state-of-the-art solutions.

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Wed 17 Jun

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10:30 - 12:10
Quantum ComputingPLDI Research Papers at Flatirons 4
10:30
20m
Talk
Verification of Recursively Defined Quantum Circuits
PLDI Research Papers
Mingsheng Ying University of Technology Sydney, Zhicheng Zhang University of Technology Sydney
DOI
10:50
20m
Talk
SAQR-QC: A Logic for Scalable but Approximate Quantitative Reasoning about Quantum Circuits
PLDI Research Papers
Nengkun Yu Stony Brook University, Jens Palsberg University of California at Los Angeles, Thomas Reps University of Wisconsin-Madison
DOI
11:10
20m
Talk
Hybrid Path-Sums for Hybrid Quantum Programs
PLDI Research Papers
Christopĥe Chareton CEA List - Université Paris-Saclay, Sébastien Bardin CEA List - Université Paris-Saclay, Jad Issa CEA List - Université Paris-Saclay, Mathieu Nguyen CEA List - Université Paris-Saclay, Nicolas Blanco CEA List - Université Paris-Saclay
DOI
11:30
20m
Talk
[TOPLAS] VyZX: Formal Verification of a Graphical Quantum Language
PLDI Research Papers
Adrian Lehmann University of Chicago, Ben Caldwell University of Chicago, A: Bhakti Shah , William Spencer , Robert Rand University of Chicago
11:50
20m
Talk
Cobble: Compiling Block Encodings for Quantum Computational Linear Algebra
PLDI Research Papers
Charles Yuan University of Wisconsin-Madison
DOI