POPL 2026
Sun 11 - Sat 17 January 2026 Rennes, France
Mon 12 Jan 2026 10:10 - 10:30 at Salle 14 - Session 1

Several industry-strength quantum compilers has been actively developed, e.g. Qiskit, \texttt{Q#} and \texttt{t\textbar ket\textgreater}. However, current verification options for them either demand heavy manual proofs or rely on solvers ill-suited for linear algebra formalism of quantum computing. In this work, we propose a novel verification framework for Qiskit compiler that couples Verus (for structural contracts over Rust implementations) with Coq (for mathematical semantics), joined by abstact functions \emph{topo} that turns imperative compiler artifacts into functional, verifiable interfaces. Thus, it is convenient to prove that Qiskit compiler preserve program semantics.

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Mon 12 Jan

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09:00 - 10:30
Session 1PLanQC at Salle 14
09:00
10m
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Opening AddressTalk
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09:10
20m
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Traq: Estimating the Quantum Cost of Classical ProgramsTalk
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Anurudh Peduri Ruhr University Bochum, Jam Kabeer Ali Khan Standard Chartered Bank; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), Gilles Barthe MPI-SP; IMDEA Software Institute, Michael Walter Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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09:30
20m
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Programming Abstractions for Quantum Linear AlgebraTalk
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Charles Yuan University of Wisconsin–Madison
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09:50
20m
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Verifying Repeat-Until-Success Circuits with AutoQTalk
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Jyun-Ao Lin National Taipei University of Technology, Yu-Fang Chen Academia Sinica, Jakub Havlík Brno University of Technology, Ondřej Lengál Brno University of Technology, Fang-Yi Lo Academia Sinica, Wei-Lun Tsai Academia Sinica
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10:10
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VC-Qiskit: Automated–Interactive Verification of Qiskit Passes with Minimal IntrusionTalk
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Xiaoquan Xu , Li Zhou Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mingsheng Ying Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; Tsinghua University
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