Performance measurement and data base design
Alfonso P. Cardenas, Larry F. Bowman, et al.
ACM Annual Conference 1975
As interest in quantum computing grows, there is a pressing need for standardized API's so that algorithm designers, circuit designers, and physicists can be provided a common reference frame for designing, executing, and optimizing experiments. There is also a need for a language specification that goes beyond gates and allows users to specify the time dynamics of a quantum experiment and recover the time dynamics of the output. In this document we provide a specification for a common interface to backends (simulators and experiments) and a standarized data structure (Qobj --- quantum object) for sending experiments to those backends via Qiskit. We also introduce OpenPulse, a language for specifying pulse level control (i.e. control of the continuous time dynamics) of a general quantum device independent of the specific hardware implementation.
Alfonso P. Cardenas, Larry F. Bowman, et al.
ACM Annual Conference 1975
Yvonne Anne Pignolet, Stefan Schmid, et al.
Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
M.J. Slattery, Joan L. Mitchell
IBM J. Res. Dev
Raymond F. Boyce, Donald D. Chamberlin, et al.
CACM