Optimized Quantum Compilation for Near-Term Algorithms with OpenPulse

Understand

Quantum computers are traditionally operated by programmers at the granularity of a gate-based instruction set.

• However, the actual device-level control of a quantum computer is performed via analog pulses.
• We introduce a compiler that exploits direct control at this microarchitectural level to achieve significant improvements for quantum programs.
• Unlike quantum optimal control, our approach is bootstrapped from existing gate calibrations and the resulting pulses are simple.