Communicating quantum processes

@inproceedings{Gay2004CommunicatingQP,
  title={Communicating quantum processes},
  author={Simon J. Gay and Rajagopal Nagarajan},
  booktitle={ACM-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages},
  year={2004}
}
  • S. GayR. Nagarajan
  • Published in
    ACM-SIGACT Symposium on…
     9 September 2004
  • Computer Science
We define a language CQP (Communicating Quantum Processes) for modelling systems which combine quantum and classical communication and computation. CQP combines the communication primitives of the pi-calculus with primitives for measurement and transformation of quantum state; in particular, quantum bits (qubits) can be transmitted from process to process along communication channels. CQP has a static type system which classifies channels, distinguishes between quantum and classical data, and… 
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