nbronn commented 2 years ago

Description

While Qiskit is nominally a hardware-agnostic platform for gate-based quantum computing, the current transpiler (which takes an "abstract" quantum circuit to one that can be implemented on the available hardware) is more optimized for superconducting qubits (i.e., 2-qubit gates, immutable qubits, static couplings, etc). In order to expand the Qiskit ecosystem to different hardware modalities such as trapped ions, cold neutral atoms, and quantum dots, transpiler passes that take advantage of the physical interactions will be desired (for example, see this preprint as it relates to trapped ions).

Mentor

@nbronn, Research Staff Member at IBM Research

Type of participant

Participants should be familiar with the physics of qubits (for example, this section of the Qiskit textbook or equivalent) and/or compilation and manipulation of quantum circuits as represented by directional acyclic graphs (DAGs), as in this tutorial.

Number of participants

2

Deliverable

Transpiler passes for optimization of circuits for non-superconducting quantum modalities.

areeq-hasan commented 2 years ago

Wow this sounds so cool, I'd be really interested in exploring this!

HitanshuGedam commented 2 years ago

I'm interested in exploring and contributing towards this project

brandhsn commented 2 years ago

@nbronn Is this a pure coding project? If it isn't, I'm very interested. :-)

nbronn commented 2 years ago

Happy to hear the interest! I would not say it is a pure coding project, since the operations will be determined by qubit physics, mathematical analyses (see Zhang et al) and/or compiling techniques (see Ding et al) can be used to increase efficiency of the operations, and this will inform how this information is coded in the transpiler. The idea is that someone will eventually use this on actual quantum hardware, but that is outside the scope of this project.

peachnuts commented 2 years ago

I'm really interested in this project and looking forward to contributing to it!

shil-m commented 2 years ago

Is this project suitable for someone who isn't very proficient in coding? I really like the idea and being a Physics undergraduate I can help with the mathematical formulations.