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Programming Frameworks
- Q#
- Circuit Composer/Quiskit, IBM
- Quirk
- Online simulator (!6 bits as of Nov 2020)
- DWave Leap
- Access to D-Wave quantum computers
- Ocean: Ptyhon library for quantum annealing
- Problem specific libraries: QUBO, Ising...
Programming QC
You program a QC as a classical computer, so the interface is "classic" let's say
\[ \mu = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{i=0} x_i \] Apply unitary transformation on a quantum state \[S_{n}\] to move to a quantum state \[S_{n+1}\]
Usually we cant with the current hardware have unitary tranformations represented with big matrices (Which act on many qubits) so we use unitary transformations in simpler 1 or 2 (or 4 tops) qubits.. Quantum gates move a vector representing a qubit on the Bloch sphere to another place
Quantum cirquits are equivalent to programs in the classical world
##Evolution of programming
Past 80s and 90s
Without programming languages Algorithm research based on linear algrebra and basic axioms of Quantum Mechanincs
Outcome: -Accurate algos -Represente d with linear algebra
- Simon, Grover, Peter Shore's algorithms etc.
Now
there are various programming languages we are in a hybrid phase - Quantum SW is still in it's infancy but developing fast
Outocmes:
Focus on NISQ algorithms (Asdd this to the vocabl) Universal HW agnostic quantum cirquits Compilation & transpilation
QML: Quatum SVM, optimization
End users - mainly quantum information PhDs
Gate Level Coding
Qiskit - Python
Tuning know algorithms
Cirq - Python
Embedding accurate building blocks
Q# - Python
Current state
- nOw we're limited to gate level/building blocks programming
- this limits quantum software development creativity and productivity
- to move from 1965 a brakatrhough is required
Future
Higher leel of abstraction -model base automation syntheses of q cirquits -varios of programming langs
outocmes:
- more quantum algorithms??? Hope so! -focus changes over time from NISQ towards FaultTolerant algorithms
End Users:
- Quantum information experts
- Computer scientist
- Expert programmers
- Domain experts
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