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Quantum Computing with Silq Programming

By : Srinjoy Ganguly, Thomas Cambier
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Quantum Computing with Silq Programming

By: Srinjoy Ganguly, Thomas Cambier

Overview of this book

Quantum computing is a growing field, with many research projects focusing on programming quantum computers in the most efficient way possible. One of the biggest challenges faced with existing languages is that they work on low-level circuit model details and are not able to represent quantum programs accurately. Developed by researchers at ETH Zurich after analyzing languages including Q# and Qiskit, Silq is a high-level programming language that can be viewed as the C++ of quantum computers! Quantum Computing with Silq Programming helps you explore Silq and its intuitive and simple syntax to enable you to describe complex tasks with less code. This book will help you get to grips with the constructs of the Silq and show you how to write quantum programs with it. You’ll learn how to use Silq to program quantum algorithms to solve existing and complex tasks. Using quantum algorithms, you’ll also gain practical experience in useful applications such as quantum error correction, cryptography, and quantum machine learning. Finally, you’ll discover how to optimize the programming of quantum computers with the simple Silq. By the end of this Silq book, you’ll have mastered the features of Silq and be able to build efficient quantum applications independently.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: Essential Background and Introduction to Quantum Computing
6
Section 2: Challenges in Quantum Programming and Silq Programming
10
Section 3: Quantum Algorithms Using Silq Programming
14
Section 4: Applications of Quantum Computing

Introducing Silq data types

In this section, let's learn about the various common data types that the Silq language offers. We will define both the Unicode symbols and the normal alphabet:

  • B or : Boolean data type used to denote 0 and 1 binary digits
  • N or : The classical natural numbers set, starting with 0,1,…
  • Z or : The classical integers set, starting with …,-1,0,1,…
  • Q or : The classical rational numbers set
  • R or : The classical real numbers

1 or : The singleton type, which contains a single element

uint[n]: n-bit unsigned integers, where n belong to classical natural numbers

int[n]: n-bit signed integers in two's complement form, where n belongs to the classical natural numbers

^n: Vector of length n

[]: Dynamic length arrays

To learn more about various other Silq data types, visit Silq's documentation at https://silq.ethz.ch/documentation, where many of the functionalities of Silq are provided.

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