A Framework for Debugging Quantum Programs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12269v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:00:07 GMT
• Title: A Framework for Debugging Quantum Programs
• Authors: Damian Rovara, Lukas Burgholzer, Robert Wille,
• Abstract summary: Development of quantum programs can be time-consuming and tedious. New tools that could aid developers in resolving these errors are still barely existent. This work proposes a framework, available as an open-source implementation at https://github.com/cda-tum/mqt-ger.
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• Abstract: Recent advancements in quantum computing software are gradually increasing the scope and size of quantum programs being developed. At the same time, however, these larger programs provide more possibilities for functional errors that are harder to detect and resolve. Meanwhile, debugging tools that could aid developers in resolving these errors are still barely existent and far from what we take for granted in classical design automation and software engineering. As a result, even if one manages to identify the incorrect behavior of a developed quantum program, detecting and resolving the underlying errors in the program remains a time-consuming and tedious task. Moreover, the exponential growth of the state space in quantum programs makes the efficient manual investigation of errors radically difficult even for respectively simple algorithms, and almost impossible as the number of qubits increases. To address this problem, this work proposes a debugging framework, available as an open-source implementation at https://github.com/cda-tum/mqt-debugger. It assists developers in debugging errors in quantum programs, allowing them to efficiently identify the existence of errors and diagnose their causes. Users are given the ability to place assertions in the code that test for the correctness of a given algorithm and are evaluated using classical simulations of the underlying quantum program. Once an assertion fails, the proposed framework employs different diagnostic methods to point towards possible error causes. This way, the debugging workload for quantum programs is drastically reduced.

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