Accepted Submissions

The following submissions to QPL 2025 have been accepted to appear in the proceedings or to be presented during the conference.

Proceedings

Authors Title
Jean-Simon Lemay, Robin Cockett and Priyaa Srinivasan Dagger Drazin Inverses
Alastair Abbott, Mehdi Mhalla and Pierre Pocreau Classical and quantum query complexity of Boolean functions under indefinite causal order
Boldizsár Poór, Razin A. Shaikh and Quanlong Wang ZX-calculus is Complete for Finite-Dimensional Hilbert Spaces
Mathias Weiden, Justin Kalloor, Ed Younis, John Kubiatowicz and Costin Iancu High-Precision Fault-Tolerant Quantum Circuit Synthesis by Unitary Diagonalization
Thomas Perez and Miriam Backens Inserting planar-measured qubits into MBQC patterns while preserving flow
Linh Dinh and Neil J. Ross Contributions to the Theory of Clifford-Cyclotomic Circuits
Aaron David Fairbanks and Peter Selinger On traces in categories of contractions
Peng Fu, Kohei Kishida, Neil J. Ross and Peter Selinger Proto-Quipper with Reversing and Control
Mateusz Kupper, Chris Heunen, Niel de Beaudrap and Dominic Horsman String diagrams for defect-based surface code computing
Nadish de Silva, Ming Yin and Santanil Jana A classification program for nonlocality paradoxes of three qubits
Sarah Meng Li, Michele Mosca, Neil J. Ross, John van de Wetering and Yuming Zhao A Complete and Natural Rule Set for Multi-Qutrit Clifford Circuits
Matthew Sutcliffe and Aleks Kissinger Fast Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits via Parametric Rewriting in the ZX-Calculus

Talks

Authors Title
Julian Wechs and Ognyan Oreshkov Subsystem decompositions of quantum evolutions and transformations between causal perspectives
Albert Aloy, Matteo Fadel, Thomas Galley, Caroline Jones and Markus P. Mueller Theory-independent monitoring of the decoherence of a superconducting qubit with generalized contextuality
Marco Erba and Paolo Perinotti The composition rule for quantum systems is not the only possible one
Mehdi Mhalla, Simon Perdrix and Luc Sanselme Shadow Pauli Flow: Characterising Determinism in MBQCs involving Pauli Measurements
Laurens Walleghem, Rui Soares Barbosa, Matt Pusey and Stefan Weigert A refined Frauchiger--Renner paradox based on strong contextuality
Maarten Grothus, Alastair Abbott, Augustin Vanrietvelde and Cyril Branciard Routing Quantum Control of Causal Order
Piotr Mitosek and Miriam Backens An algebraic interpretation of Pauli flow, leading to faster flow-finding algorithms
Amin Karamlou Quantum Spoiler-Duplicator Games
Raphaël Mothe, Alastair Abbott and Cyril Branciard Correlations and quantum circuits with dynamical causal order
Nathan Claudet and Simon Perdrix Generalising Local Complementation to Capture Local Unitary Equivalence of Graph States
Louis Lemonnier Non-Cartesian Guarded Recursion with Daggers
Sina Soltani, Marco Erba, David Schmid and John H. Selby Noncontextual ontological models of operational probabilistic theories
Yìlè Yīng, Tomáš Gonda and Robert Spekkens Resource dependence relations and contextuality in asymmetry trade-offs
Laurens Walleghem and Lorenzo Catani An extended Wigner’s friend no-go theorem inspired by generalized contextuality
Liyi Li, Federico Zahariev, Chandeepa Dissanayake, Jae Swanepoel, Amr Sabry and Mark Gordon Quantum Simulation Programming via Typing
John Selby, Maria Stasinou, Matt Wilson and Bob Coecke Generalised process theories
Bob Coecke, Stefano Gogioso, Aleks Kissinger, Selma Dündar-Coecke, Caterina Puca, Lia Yeh, Muhammad Hamza Waseem, Sieglinde M.-L. Pfaendler, Thomas Cervoni and Vincent Wang-Mascianica High schoolers excel at Oxford post-graduate quantum exam: empirical evidence in support of quantum picturalism as a new formalism for quantum theory
Clément Poirson, Robert Booth and Joschka Roffe CSS surgery: compiling any CNOT in any code
James Hefford and Matt Wilson A BV-Category of Spacetime Interventions
Benjamin Rodatz, Boldizsár Poór and Aleks Kissinger Floquetifying stabiliser codes with distance-preserving rewrites
Arthur Mehta, Connor Paddock and Lewis Wooltorton Self-testing in the complied setting via tilted-CHSH inequalities
Augustin Vanrietvelde, Octave Mestoudjian and Pablo Arrighi Causal Decompositions of 1D Quantum Cellular Automata
Hlér Kristjánsson, Tatsuki Odake, Satoshi Yoshida, Philip Taranto, Jessica Bavaresco, Marco Túlio Quintino and Mio Murao Exponential separation in quantum query complexity of the quantum switch with respect to simulations with standard quantum circuits
Theodoros Yianni and Farid Shahandeh Complexity of Contextuality
Vivien Vandaele Lower T-count with faster algorithms
Carla Ferradini, Victor Gitton and V. Vilasini Cyclic quantum and classical causal modelling with a novel graph separation theorem
Anna Jenčová On the structure of higher order quantum maps
Raman Choudhary and Rui Soares Barbosa Exclusivity principle, Ramsey theory, and n-cycle PR boxes
Tein van der Lugt and Robin Lorenz Unitary causal decompositions: a combinatorial characterisation via lattice theory
Yìlè Yīng, Maria Ciudad Alanon, Daniel Centeno, Marco Erba, Thomas Galley, David Schmid, John H. Selby, Robert W. Spekkens, Sina Soltani and Alex Wilce Twirled worlds: symmetry-induced failures of tomographic locality (and its comparison with quantum theory over the real field)
Nadish de Silva and Oscar Lautsch The Clifford hierarchy for one qubit or qudit
Matthias Salzger and John Selby A decompositional framework for process theories in spacetime
Ved Kunte and Cyril Branciard A Higher Order Theory for Fermionic Systems
Vincenzo Fiorentino and Stefan Weigert Quantum Theories with Alternative State-Update Rules
Aziz Kharoof, Selman Ipek and Cihan Okay Extremal simplicial distributions on glued cycle scenarios with arbitrary outcomes
Kai-Siang Chen, Gelo Noel Tabia, Chung-Yun Hsieh, Yu-Chun Yin and Yeong-Cherng Liang Nonlocality of Quantum States Can be Transitive
Bruna Larissa de Souza Sahdo E Silva, Natália S. Móller and Nelson Yokomizo Gravitational quantum switch on a superposition of spherical shells
Ivan Šupić, Maria Balanzo-Juando, Andrea Coladangelo, Remigiusz Augusiak and Antonio Acin All pure multipartite entangled states of qubits can be self-tested up to complex conjugation
Titouan Carette, Renaud Vilmart and Daniela Cojocaru The decohered ZX-calculus
Angelos Bampounis, Rui Soares Barbosa and Nadish de Silva Matchgate hierarchy: Deterministic gate teleportation in matchgate circuits
Nick Ormrod and Robert Spekkens Causation in Classical Mechanics
Tuomas Laakkonen Synthesizing Controlled or Distributed Clifford Circuits
Yujie Zhang, David Schmid, Yìlè Yīng and Robbert Spekkens Defining nonclassicality for individual quantum processes
Rutvij Bhavsar, Lewis Wooltorton and Joonwoo Bae A composable framework for device-independent state certification with local operations and classical communication
Matthew Amy, Nadish de Silva and Kasra Masoudi The Channel Representation and Non-Clifford Resources
Fabian Wiesner, Ziad Chaoui, Diana Kessler, Anna Pappa and Martti Karvonen Why quantum state verification cannot be both efficient and secure: a categorical approach
Satoshi Yoshida, Yuki Koizumi, Michał Studziński, Marco Túlio Quintino and Mio Murao One-to-one Correspondence between Deterministic Port-Based Teleportation and Unitary Estimation
Martin Plávala, Otfried Gühne and Marco Túlio Quintino All incompatible measurements on qubits lead to multiparticle Bell nonlocality
Andrey Khesin, Jonathan Lu and Peter Shor Universal graph representation of stabilizer codes
Nicetu Tibau Vidal and Giulio Chiribella BMV experiment without spacetime superpositions
Jessica Bavaresco, Ämin Baumeler, Yelena Guryanova and Costantino Budroni Indefinite causal order in boxworld theories
Maiyuren Srikumar, Stephen. D. Bartlett and Angela Karanjai How contextuality and antidistinguishability are related
Paul Herringer, Vir B. Bulchandani, Younes Javanmard, David T. Stephen and Robert Raussendorf Measurement-based quantum computation in symmetry-enriched topological phases
Nihil Shah and Anuj Dawar Complexity of Satisfiablity in Kochen-Specker Partial Boolean Algebras

Posters

Authors Title
David Ellerman From the Logic of Partitions to Quantum Mechanics and Back Again
Jan Głowacki Relativization is naturally functorial
Alexander Koziell-Pipe, Richie Yeung, David Philipps and Matthew Sutcliffe Towards Faster Quantum Circuit Simulation Using Graph Decompositions, GNNs and Reinforcement Learning
Markus Frembs A new perspective on Kochen-Specker contextuality
Gabriele Carcassi and Christine Aidala Ensemble spaces
Matty Hoban, Tom Drescher and Ana Belén Sainz A hierarchy of semidefinite programs for generalised Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen scenarios
Yiying Chen, Peidong Wang and Zizhu Wang Causality and Duality in Multipartite Generalized Probabilistic Theories
Ittoop Veregheese Puthoor Formal verification of higher dimensional quantum communication protocols
Jad Issa, Christophe Chareton and Romain Péchoux Compact and efficient formalism for resource estimation in quantum programs
Edwin Agnew, Lia Yeh and Richie Yeung Algebraic Structure of Controlled States and Operators in the ZXW calculus
Augustin Vanrietvelde, Octave Mestoudjian and Pablo Arrighi Partitions in quantum theory
Filipa Peres and Ernesto Galvão Reducing Depth and Measurement Weights in Pauli-based Computation
Rutvij Bhavsar, Hamid Tebyanian and Roger Colbeck Semi Device Independent Randomness Expansion Protocols Secure Against Quantum Side Information and General Attacks
Tiffany Duneau, Saskia Bruhn, Gabriel Matos, Tuomas Laakkonen, Katerina Saiti, Anna Pearson, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis and Bob Coecke Scalable and interpretable quantum natural language processing: an implementation on trapped ions
Veronika Baumann, Ämin Baumeler and Eleftherios Tselentis No quantum advantage for violating fixed-order inequalities?
Martin van Ijcken and Aleks Kissinger Generalized flow and determinism for hypergraph measurement patterns
Simon Martiel and Ali Javadi-Abhari Low-overhead error mitigation by hardware-efficient spacetime codes
Shintaro Minagawa, M. Hamed Mohammady, Kenta Sakai, Kohtaro Kato and Francesco Buscemi Universal validity of the second law of information thermodynamics
Emil Håkansson, Amelie Piveteau, Alban Seguinard, Muhammad Sadiq, Mohamed Bourennane, Otfried Guehne and Martin Plávala Experimental implementation of dimension-dependent contextuality inequality
Thomas Vinet, Romain Péchoux, Emmanuel Hainry and Kostia Chardonnet A hybrid and reversible quantum language
Kuntal Sengupta Achieving Maximal Causal Indefiniteness in a Maximally Nonlocal Theory
Vivien Vandaele, Simon Perdrix and Christophe Vuillot Optimal number of parametrized rotations and Hadamard gates in parametrized Clifford circuits with non-repeated parameters
Robert Booth and Cole Comfort Gaussian probability, like classical noise, is completely positive
Johannes Fankhauser, Tomáš Gonda and Gemma De Les Coves Epistemic Horizons From Deterministic Laws: Lessons From a Nomic Toy Theory
Nasra Daher Ahmed and Ravi Kunjwal When can you trade causal order for locality?
Tein van der Lugt An order-theoretic circuit syntax and the role of the concept lattice for causal faithfulness
Anna Steffinlongo and Hippolyte Dourdent Simulating Noncausality with Quantum Control of Causal Orders
Peidong Wang, Yiying Chen and Zizhu Wang Indefinite Causal Structures in Classical Deterministic Processes: A Boolean Function Perspective
Tanay Saha and Shiroman Prakash Sublogarithmic Distillation in all Prime Dimensions using Punctured Reed-Muller Codes
Razin A. Shaikh, Lia Yeh and Stefano Gogioso The Focked-up ZX Calculus: Picturing Continuous-Variable Quantum Computation
Haytham McDowall-Rose, Razin A. Shaikh and Lia Yeh A graphical calculus for Fermion-to-Qubit mappings
Xin Sun, Xingchi Su, Xiaoning Bian and Huiwen Wu Weakest Preterm Calculus and Relative Completeness of Satisfaction-based Quantum Hoare Logic (Extended Abstract)
Nicholas Godfrey Toward a Quantum-Inspired Framework for Modelling Legal Rules
Luca Apadula, Alessandro Bisio, Paolo Perinotti and Marco Erba A compositional characterization of higher-order transformations in operational probabilistic theories
Tim Forrer, Mio Murao, Matthew Wilson, Philip Taranto and Jisho Miyazaki Functional Protocol Framework for Quantum Computation with Knowledge
David Schmid, Roberto D. Baldijão, Yìlè Yıng, Rafael Wagner and John Selby Kirkwood-Dirac representations beyond quantum states and their relation to noncontextuality
Cihan Okay, Victor Castillo and Walker Stern Simplicial effects as generalization of effect algebroids
Amrapali Sen, Matthias Salzger and Łukasz Rudnicki Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
Kyrylo Simonov, Luca Apadula, Giulio Chiribella, Paolo Perinotti and Alessandro Bisio Higher-order quantum theory with indefinite input-output direction
Tomoaki Kawano Dynamic Quantum Logic with Probability Values
Elia Zanoni and Carlo Maria Scandolo Choi-Defined Resource Theories
Lee Gunderson, Davide Poderini and Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff Causal Bounds via Subgraph Inequalities
Rafael Macêdo, Patrick Andriolo, Santiago Zamora, Davide Poderini and Rafael Chaves Witnessing Magic with Bell Inequalities
Hala Hawashin, Beth Pearson, Martha Lewis and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Compositional Concept Generalization with Variational Quantum Circuits
Scott Wesley Enriched Categories for Parameterized Circuit Semantics
Kyrylo Simonov, Giulio Chiribella and Xuanqiang Zhao Two-time states and weak values: Structure and efficient estimation
Albert Rico State-Witness Contraction: a systematic method to construct multipartite entanglement witnesses
Zixuan Liu and Ognyan Oreshkov Information causality for indefinite causal order
Cole Comfort and Giovanni de Felice The Delayed Stabilizer ZX-calculus
Davide Poderini and Marco Erba Testing the quantum composition postulate
Nick Ormrod Deriving classical- and quantum-like theories from causation
Haruki Emori, Akihisa Tomita and Masanao Ozawa Parameterized quantum instruments
Kayo Tei, Haruto Mishina, Naoki Yamamoto and Kazunori Ueda Optimization and Verification of Quantum Circuits using a Graph Rewriting Language
Vishal Johnson, Ashmeet Singh and Torsten Enßlin The Born Rule in Unitary Quantum Mechanics
Jessica Bavaresco, Satoshi Yoshida, Tatsuki Odake, Hlér Kristjánsson, Philip Taranto, Mio Murao and Marco Túlio Quintino Can the quantum switch be deterministically simulated?
Kathleen Barsse, Romain Péchoux and Simon Perdrix A quantum programming language for coherent control
Jingyi Mei and Alfons Laarman Quantum Circuit Compilation with #SAT