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Quantum Programming: Past, Present, Future

Donald Sofge, Luigi Accardi, Guillaume Adenier, Christopher A. Fuchs, Gregg S. Jaeger, Andrei Yu. Khrennikov, Jan-Åke Larsson, Stig Stenholm

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations

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Abstract

This paper reviews the history and current (2008) state‐of‐the‐art methods for programming quantum computers. We analyze the needs for programming quantum computers in the near future (when actual quantum computing hardware is available), and use this analysis to predict the direction in which the field is moving, and make recommendations for further development of quantum programming language tools.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3109938

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