OpenQL : A Portable Quantum Programming Framework for Quantum Accelerators

Understand

With the potential of quantum algorithms to solve intractable classical problems, quantum computing is rapidly evolving and more algorithms are being developed and optimized.

• Expressing these quantum algorithms using a high-level language and making them executable on a quantum processor while abstracting away hardware details is a challenging task.
• Firstly, a quantum programming language should provide an intuitive programming interface to describe those algorithms.
• Then a compiler has to transform the program into a quantum circuit, optimize it and map it to the target quantum processor respecting the hardware constraints such as the supported quantum operations, the qubit connectivity, and the control electronics limitations.