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The rise of quantum computing has driven the need for quantum software engineering, yet its programming landscape remains largely unexplored in empirical research. As quantum technologies advance toward industrial adoption, understanding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Arif Ali Khan , Boshuai Ye , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Javed Ali Khan , Davoud Mougouei , Xinyuan Ma

Despite ongoing advancements in quantum computing, businesses are still faced with the problem to decide if they would benefit from investing into this novel technology for building a business critical application. This uncertainty is not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Janardan Misra , Vikrant Kaulgud , Rupesh Kaslay , Sanjay Podder

Quantum computing is an emerging technology whose positive and negative impacts on society are not yet fully known. As government, individuals, institutions, and corporations fund and develop this technology, they must ensure that they…

Quantum software systems are emerging software engineering (SE) genre that exploit principles of quantum bits (Qubit) and quantum gates (Qgates) to solve complex computing problems that today classic computers can not effectively do in a…

This position paper examines the substantial divide between academia and industry within quantum software engineering. For example, while academic research related to debugging and testing predominantly focuses on a limited subset of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jake Zappin , Trevor Stalnaker , Oscar Chaparro , Denys Poshyvanyk

QSE is emerging as a critical discipline to make quantum computing accessible to a broader developer community; however, most quantum development environments still require developers to engage with low-level details across the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Boshuai Ye , Arif Ali Khan , Teemu Pihkakoski , Peng Liang , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Matti Silveri , Lauri Malmi

The inaugural edition of the MIT Quantum Index Report (QIR). Quantum technologies are evolving from theoretical concepts into tangible technologies with commercial promise. Their rapid progress is capturing global attention and suggests we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-06 Jonathan Ruane , Elif Kiesow , Johannes Galatsanos , Carl Dukatz , Edward Blomquist , Prashant Shukla

This report builds upon the Categorization of Roles in the Quantum Industry report by providing detailed profiles for 29 distinct roles across the quantum workforce. While the earlier report established a framework of four major role…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-01-09 Shams El-Adawy , A. R. Piña , Benjamin M. Zwickl , H. J. Lewandowski

Over the past 27 years, quantum computing has seen a huge rise in interest from both academia and industry. At the current rate, quantum computers are growing in size rapidly backed up by the increase of research in the field. Significant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Marco Lewis , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

Recent advancements in quantum computing have positioned it as a prospective solution for tackling intricate computational challenges, with supervised learning emerging as a promising domain for its application. Despite this potential, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Antonio Macaluso

Quantum Computing is a new paradigm that enables several advances which are impossible using classical technology. With the rise of quantum computers, the software is also invited to change so that it can better fit this new computation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Paulo Eduardo Zanni Junior , Valter Vieira de Camargo

Quantum computing represents a revolutionary computational paradigm with the potential to address challenges beyond classical computers' capabilities. The development of robust quantum software is indispensable to unlock the full potential…

Quantum computing is rapidly emerging as a new computing paradigm with the potential to improve decision-making, optimization, and simulation across industries. For industrial engineering (IE) and operations research (OR), this shift…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Emily L. Tucker , Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that merges the principles of Quantum Computing (QC) and Federated Learning (FL), with the goal of leveraging quantum technologies to enhance privacy, security, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chao Ren , Rudai Yan , Huihui Zhu , Han Yu , Minrui Xu , Yuan Shen , Yan Xu , Ming Xiao , Zhao Yang Dong , Mikael Skoglund , Dusit Niyato , Leong Chuan Kwek

Present-day quantum systems face critical bottlenecks, including limited qubit counts, brief coherence intervals, and high susceptibility to errors-all of which obstruct the execution of large and complex circuits. The advancement of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Waylon Luo , Jiapeng Zhao , Tong Zhan , Qiang Guan

Quantum resources are increasingly integrated into high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud environments, but quantum high-performance computing (QHPC) software stacks remain isolated, often proprietary, full-stack solutions lacking…

We present a scalable, robust approach to creating quantum programs of arbitrary size and complexity. The approach is based on the true abstraction of the problem. The quantum program is expressed in terms of a high-level model together…

As quantum technologies (QT) move from foundational research toward industrial and societal deployment, national strategies have become critical instruments for shaping the future of this emerging field. In this study, we conduct the first…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-26 Simon Richard Goorney , Emre Aslan , Aleksandrs Baskakovs , Borja Muñoz , Jacob Sherson

After the passage of the US National Quantum Initiative Act in December 2018, the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology Policy assembled an interagency working group and conducted a workshop titled "Key…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-10-13 Chandralekha Singh , Akash Levy , Jeremy Levy

Quantum computing resources are among the most promising candidates for extending the computational capabilities of High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. As a result, HPC-quantum integration has become an increasingly active area of…