A Comprehensive Introduction to the Intel Quantum SDK

Xin-Chuan Wu, Shavindra Premaratne, Kevin Rasch

Published Aug 14, 2023• 7 citations

Abstract

The Intel(R) Quantum Software Development Kit (SDK) offers a comprehensive platform for developers to create quantum applications using an LLVM-based compiler with user-friendly C++ language extensions. This full-stack solution facilitates the expression and optimization of quantum circuits and includes a quantum runtime library for seamless hybrid execution between classical and quantum kernels. The runtime enables dynamic parameter determination for quantum circuits, allowing both quantum and classical components of variational algorithms to be defined within a single program, compiled once, and significantly reducing execution latency. The SDK features a suite of quantum simulators, including simulations of Intel's quantum hardware components such as qubit control processors, control electronics, and quantum dot qubits. With a unified interface, the Intel Quantum SDK allows users to target ideal qubit simulators, realistic Intel quantum hardware simulators, and future Intel quantum hardware, enabling efficient optimization, compilation, and execution of scalable hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithms.

DOI: 10.1145/3589014.3595066

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