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We introduce isQ, a new software stack for quantum programming in an imperative programming language, also named isQ. The aim of isQ is to make the programmers write quantum programs as conveniently as possible. In particular: 1) The isQ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Jingzhe Guo , Huazhe Lou , Riling Li , Wang Fang , Junyi Liu , Peixun Long , Shenggang Ying , Mingsheng Ying

The rapid growth of quantum information science and technology (QIST) in the 21st century has created both excitement and uncertainty about the field's trajectory. This qualitative study presents perspectives from leading quantum…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-02-18 Liam Doyle , Fargol Seifollahi , Chandralekha Singh

As hybrid quantum-classical models gain traction in machine learning, there is a growing need for tools that assess their effectiveness beyond raw accuracy. We present QMetric, a Python package offering a suite of interpretable metrics to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Silvie Illésová , Tomasz Rybotycki , Martin Beseda

Quantum computer simulation software is an integral tool for the research efforts in the quantum computing community. An important aspect is the efficiency of respective frameworks, especially for training variational quantum algorithms.…

We present a new Python package that uses the established notion of geometric quantum complexity to numerically compute the difficulty associated with preparing a given unitary transformation on a quantum computer. The numerical procedure…

Variational quantum algorithms are currently the most promising class of algorithms for deployment on near-term quantum computers. In contrast to classical algorithms, there are almost no standardized methods in quantum algorithmic…

For the first time in history, we are seeing a branching point in computing paradigms with the emergence of quantum processing units (QPUs). Extracting the full potential of computation and realizing quantum algorithms with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Sergey Bravyi , Oliver Dial , Jay M. Gambetta , Dario Gil , Zaira Nazario

In this work we present kiwiPy, a Python library designed to support robust message based communication for high-throughput, big-data, applications while being general enough to be useful wherever high-volumes of messages need to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Martin Uhrin , Sebastiaan P. Huber

Quantum technologies such as communications, computing, and sensing offer vast opportunities for advanced research and development. While an open-source ethos currently exists within some quantum technologies, especially in quantum computer…

Quantum computing (QC) promises to be a transformative technology with impact on various application domains, such as optimization, cryptography, and material science. However, the technology has a sharp learning curve, and practical…

Quantum computing (QC) is increasingly transitioning toward practical and industrial adoption, highlighting the need to understand how developers engage with quantum technologies. In this study, we analyze 1,404 Stack Overflow posts related…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Maryam Tavassoli Sabzevari , Arif Ali Khan

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize several scientific and technological domains through fundamentally new ways of processing information. Among its most compelling applications is digital quantum simulation, where quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Laurin E. Fischer

Quantum information science (QIS) is a critical interdisciplinary field that requires a well-educated workforce in the near future. Numerous researchers and educators have been actively investigating how to best educate and prepare such a…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-06-24 Kelley Durkin , Manshuo Lin , Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Ryan P. McMahan

We describe 'staq', a full-stack quantum processing toolkit written in standard C++. 'staq' is a quantum compiler toolkit, comprising of tools that range from quantum optimizers and translators to physical mappers for quantum devices with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Matthew Amy , Vlad Gheorghiu

Quantum computers have steadily improved over the last decade, but developing fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) techniques, required for useful, universal computation remains an ongoing effort. Key elements of FTQC such as…

Physics and computer science have a long tradition of cross-fertilization. One of the latest outcomes of this mutually beneficial relationship is quantum information science, which comprises the study of information processing tasks that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Fei Yan , Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca , Kaoru Hirota

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

Numerical investigations are an important research tool in quantum information theory. There already exists a wide range of computational tools for quantum information theory implemented in various programming languages. However, there is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Piotr Gawron , Dariusz Kurzyk , Łukasz Pawela

In this article, we provide an extensive overview of a wide range of quantum games and interactive tools that have been employed by the community in recent years. The paper presents selected tools, as described by their developers. The list…

Quantum software tools for a wide variety of design tasks on and across different levels of abstraction are crucial in order to eventually realize useful quantum applications. This requires practical and relevant benchmarks for new software…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Nils Quetschlich , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille