[Haskell] Quipper: a quantum programming language

Dear Haskellers, we are proud to announce the first public release of Quipper, an embedded, scalable functional programming language for quantum computing. The Quipper distribution is available here: http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/ and includes extensive documentation, as well as seven worked examples of non-trivial quantum algorithms from the literature. Quipper is embedded in Haskell and makes use of many advanced features of the GHC Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Here are some highlights: * High-level circuit description language, including both gate-by-gate descriptions and powerful higher-order operators for assembling and manipulating circuits. * A monadic semantics, allowing for a mixture of procedural and declarative programming styles. * Built-in facilities for automatic synthesis of reversible quantum circuits, including from classical Haskell code. * Support for hierarchical circuits. * Extensible quantum data types. * Programmable circuit transformers * Support for a dynamic lifting operation to allow circuit generation to depend on parameters generated at circuit execution time. * Extensive libraries of quantum functions, including: libraries for quantum integer and fixed-point arithmetic; the Quantum Fourier transform; an efficient Qram implementation; libraries for simulation of pseudo-classical circuits, Stabilizer circuits, and arbitrary circuits; libraries for exact and approximate decomposition of circuits into specific gate sets. Comments are welcome! Alexander S. Green Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine Neil Julien Ross Peter Selinger Benoit Valiron -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/attachments/20130619/ea2878fe/attachment.htm>