Benchmarking quantum computers helps to quantify them and bringing the technology to the market. Various application-level metrics exist to benchmark a quantum device at an application level. This paper presents a revised holistic scoring method called the Quantum Application Score (QuAS) incorporating strong points of previous metrics, such as QPack and the Q-score. We discuss how to integrate both and thereby obtain an application-level metric that better quantifies the practical utility of quantum computers. We evaluate the new metric on different hardware platforms such as D-Wave and IBM as well as quantum simulators of Quantum Inspire and Rigetti.
@article{arxiv.2406.03905,
title = {QuAS: Quantum Application Score for benchmarking the utility of quantum computers},
author = {Koen J. Mesman and Ward van der Schoot and Matthias Möller and Niels M. P. Neumann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.03905},
year = {2024}
}