An open-source, industrial-strength optimizing compiler for quantum programs
Abstract
QUILC is an open-source, optimizing compiler for gate-based quantum programs written in Quil or QASM, two popular quantum programming languages. The compiler was designed with attention toward NISQ-era quantum computers, specifically recognizing that each quantum gate has a non-negligible and often irrecoverable cost toward a program's successful execution. QUILC's primary goal is to make authoring quantum software a simpler exercise by making architectural details less burdensome to the author. Using QUILC allows one to write programs faster while usually not compromising—and indeed sometimes improving—their execution fidelity on a given hardware architecture. In this paper, we describe many of the principles behind QUILC's design, and demonstrate the compiler with various examples.
- Publication:
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Quantum Science and Technology
- Pub Date:
- October 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1088/2058-9565/ab9acb
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2003.13961
- Bibcode:
- 2020QS&T....5d4001S
- Keywords:
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- quantum compilation;
- quantum computing;
- circuit optimization;
- Common Lisp;
- Quantum Physics;
- Computer Science - Programming Languages