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This paper presents the definition and implementation of a quantum computer architecture to enable creating a new computational device - a quantum computer as an accelerator In this paper, we present explicitly the idea of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 K. Bertels , A. Sarkar , A. Krol , R. Budhrani , J. Samadi , E. Geoffroy , J. Matos , R. Abreu , G. Gielen , I. Ashraf

Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain problems faster than classical computers by exploiting quantum mechanical effects such as superposition. However, building high-quality quantum software is challenging due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Julian Shen , Joshua Ammermann , Christoph König , Ina Schaefer

This paper presents the definition and implementation of a quantum computer architecture to enable creating a new computational device - a quantum computer as an accelerator. In this paper, we present explicitly the idea of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 K. Bertels , A. Sarkar , A. A. Mouedenne , T. Hubregtsen , A. Yadav , A. Krol , I. Ashraf

Quantum computing holds the potential to revolutionize various fields by efficiently tackling complex problems. At its core are quantum circuits, sequences of quantum gates manipulating quantum states. The selection of the right quantum…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Xiaoyu Guo , Takahiro Muta , Jianjun Zhao

With the potential of quantum algorithms to solve intractable classical problems, quantum computing is rapidly evolving and more algorithms are being developed and optimized. Expressing these quantum algorithms using a high-level language…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 N. Khammassi , I. Ashraf , J. v. Someren , R. Nane , A. M. Krol , M. A. Rol , L. Lao , K. Bertels , C. G. Almudever

Programming for today's quantum computers is making significant strides toward modern workflows compatible with high performance computing (HPC), but fundamental challenges still remain in the integration of these vastly different…

Quantum computing, leveraging quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement, is emerging as a transformative force in computing technology, promising unparalleled computational speed and efficiency crucial for engineering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Osama Muhammad Raisuddin , Suvranu De

Quantum computers are often treated as experimental add-ons that are loosely coupled to classical infrastructure through high-level interpreted languages and cloud-like orchestration. However, future deployments in both, high-performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Ralf Ramsauer , Wolfgang Mauerer

As quantum computers advance, the complexity of the software they can execute increases as well. To ensure this software is efficient, maintainable, reusable, and cost-effective -key qualities of any industry-grade software-mature software…

In recent years, various vendors have made quantum software frameworks available. Yet with vendor-specific frameworks, code portability seems at risk, especially in a field where hardware and software libraries have not yet reached a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Manuel Schönberger , Maja Franz , Stefanie Scherzinger , Wolfgang Mauerer

Quantum algorithms for tasks such as factorization, search, and simulation rely on control flow such as branching and iteration that depends on the value of data in superposition. High-level programming abstractions for control flow, such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Charles Yuan , Agnes Villanyi , Michael Carbin

Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) has the potential to revolutionize the area of quantum computing. QRAM uses quantum computing principles to store and modify quantum or classical data efficiently, greatly accelerating a wide range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Koustubh Phalak , Avimita Chatterjee , Swaroop Ghosh

As quantum computers become available to the general public, the need has arisen to train a cohort of quantum programmers, many of whom have been developing classical computer programs for most of their careers. While currently available…

Combining quantum computers with classical compute power has become a standard means for developing algorithms that are eventually supposed to beat any purely classical alternatives. While in-principle advantages for solution quality or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Simon Thelen , Wolfgang Mauerer

The rapid progress of computer technology has been accompanied by a corresponding evolution of software development, from hardwired components and binary machine code to high level programming languages, which allowed to master the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bernhard Oemer

Memory is an indispensable component in classical computing systems. While the development of quantum computing is still in its early stages, current quantum processing units mainly function as quantum registers. Consequently, the actual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Chenxu Liu , Meng Wang , Samuel A. Stein , Yufei Ding , Ang Li

Quantum computers are becoming real, and they have the inherent potential to significantly impact many application domains. We sketch the basics about programming quantum computers, showing that quantum programs are typically hybrid…

Contemporary quantum computing platforms remain, in essence, programmable physical systems whose control is typically mediated through unitary gate abstractions. While such abstractions provide a uniform interface, they obscure important…

Quantum algorithms are demonstrated to outperform classical algorithms for certain problems and thus are promising candidates for efficient information processing. Herein we aim to provide a brief and popular introduction to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Shihao Zhang , Lvzhou Li

We define some of the programming and system-level challenges facing the application of quantum processing to high-performance computing. Alongside barriers to physical integration, prominent differences in the execution of quantum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Keith A. Britt , Fahd A. Mohiyaddin , Travis S. Humble