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Image Computation for Quantum Transition Systems

Xin Hong·Dingchao Gao·Sanjiang Li·Shenggang Ying·Mingsheng Ying
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With the rapid progress in quantum hardware and software, the need for verification of quantum systems becomes increasingly crucial. While model checking is a dominant and very successful technique for verifying classical systems, its application to quantum systems is still an underdeveloped research area. This paper advances the development of model checking quantum systems by providing efficient image computation algorithms for quantum transition systems, which play a fundamental role in model checking. In our approach, we represent quantum circuits as tensor networks and design algorithms by leveraging the properties of tensor networks and tensor decision diagrams. Our experiments demonstrate that our contraction partition-based algorithm can greatly improve the efficiency of image computation for quantum transition systems.

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Xin Hong, Dingchao Gao, Sanjiang Li, Shenggang Ying, Mingsheng Ying. 2025-03-06. Image Computation for Quantum Transition Systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04146

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