Chidanand Apté, Fred Damerau, et al.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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.
Chidanand Apté, Fred Damerau, et al.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
G. Ramalingam
Theoretical Computer Science
Sabine Deligne, Ellen Eide, et al.
INTERSPEECH - Eurospeech 2001
Leo Liberti, James Ostrowski
Journal of Global Optimization