Formal Verification using Second-Quantized Horn Clauses

TL;DR

This paper extends formal verification methods to quantum systems using second-quantized Horn clauses, enabling rigorous reasoning about complex quantum optical processes and interconnected systems within a measure-theoretic framework.

Contribution

It introduces second-quantized Horn clauses for formal verification of quantum processes, expanding the previous entanglement semantics to infinite-dimensional systems and quantum optical components.

Findings

Formalizes quantum optical processes using Horn clauses.

Demonstrates the expressive power by modeling interconnected quantum systems.

Provides a measure-theoretic approach for infinite-dimensional quantum systems.

Abstract

In our previous work [1] we described quantized computation using Horn clauses and based the semantics, dubbed as entanglement semantics as a generalization of denotational and distribution semantics, and founded it on quantum probability by exploiting the key insight classical random variables have quantum decompositions. Towards this end we built a Hilbert space of H-interpretations and a corresponding non commutative von Neu- mann algebra of bounded linear operators [2]. In this work we extend the formalism using second-quantized Horn clauses that describe processes such as Heisenberg evolutions in optical circuits, quantum walks, and quantum filters in a formally verifiable way. We base our system on a measure theoretic approach to handle infinite dimensional systems and demonstrate the expressive power of the formalism by casting an algebra used to describe interconnected quantum systems (QNET) [5] in this language. The variables of a Horn clause bounded by universal or existential quantifiers can be used to describe parameters of optical components such as beam splitter scattering paths, cavity detuning from resonance, strength of a laser beam, or input and output ports of these components. Prominent clauses in this non commutative framework are Weyl predicates, that are operators on a Boson Fock space in the language of quantum stochastic calculus, martingales and conjugate Brownian motions compactly representing statistics of quantum field fluctuations. We formulate the- orem proving as a quantum stochastic process, more precisely a martingale, in Heisenberg picture of quantum mechanics, a sequence of goals to be proved, on the Herbrand base.