2021/03/07 by Frank Leymann, Leymann, Frank, Johanna Barzen +1 · 6 citations
Computer Science · #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #FOS: Physical sciences #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.04320
openalex publication_date 2021/03/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Quantum applications are most often hybrid, i.e. they are not only made of implementations of pure quantum algorithms but also of classical programs as well as workflows and topologies as key artifacts, and data they process. Since workflows and topologies are referred to as orchestrations in modern terminology (but with very different meaning), two orchestrations that go hand-in-hand are required to realize quantum applications. We motivate this by means of a non-trivial example, sketch these orchestration technologies and reveal the overall structure of nontrivial quantum applications as well as the implied architecture of a runtime environment for such applications.