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Ion-trap backend for Qiskit #27

Open ajavadia opened 5 years ago

ajavadia commented 5 years ago

Abstract

Qiskit is very much tailored to IBM superconducting devices currently. Other backends are possible but don't have good support. I propose starting to implement an ion-trap backend for Qiskit.

[ ] The simplest thing would be to build new gates (i.e. Molmer Sorenson gate)
[ ] Add some transpiler passes for rewriting in the new basis.
[ ] Explore whether there are any mapping challenges or whether mapping is trivial.
[ ] Add some simulation methods in BasicAer and Aer.

Members

@fmozafari
@ma5x
@strickroman
@yangyuethz
IBM Coach: @ajavadia, @mmeibm, @PetarJurcevic

Deliverable

a Pull Request into Terra and Aer that allows building ion-trap experiments, optimizing them, and simulating them.

GitHub repo

https://github.com/ajavadia/qiskit-terra/tree/ion-trap-new-gates

ma5x commented 5 years ago

Sounds cool! I'm definitely interested.

strickroman commented 5 years ago

I am also interested!

mmeibm commented 5 years ago

will be coaching mme@zurich.ibm.com