QPack Scores: Quantitative performance metrics for application-oriented quantum computer benchmarking

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This paper presents the benchmark score definitions of QPack, an application-oriented cross-platform benchmarking suite for quantum computers and simulators, which makes use of scalable Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and Variational Quantum Eigensolver applications.

• Using a varied set of benchmark applications, an insight of how well a quantum computer or its simulator performs on a general NISQ-era application can be quantitatively made.
• This paper presents what quantum execution data can be collected and transformed into benchmark scores for application-oriented quantum benchmarking.
• Definitions are given for an overall benchmark score, as well as sub-scores based on runtime, accuracy, scalability and capacity performance.