Qiskit Backend Specifications for OpenQASM and OpenPulse Experiments

2018/09/10 by McKay, David C., Alexander, Thomas, Bello, Luciano +17 · 6 citations
#Emerging Technologies (cs.ET) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1809.03452

Abstract

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.

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