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arxiv: 1809.03452 · v1 · pith:5HQ6IWDZnew · submitted 2018-09-10 · 🪐 quant-ph · cs.ET

Qiskit Backend Specifications for OpenQASM and OpenPulse Experiments

David C. McKay , Thomas Alexander , Luciano Bello , Michael J. Biercuk , Lev Bishop , Jiayin Chen , Jerry M. Chow , Antonio D. C\'orcoles
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Daniel Egger Stefan Filipp Juan Gomez Michael Hush Ali Javadi-Abhari Diego Moreda Paul Nation Brent Paulovicks Erick Winston Christopher J. Wood James Wootton Jay M. Gambetta
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As interest in quantum computing grows, there is a pressing need for standardized API's so that algorithm designers, circuit designers, and physicists can be provided a common reference frame for designing, executing, and optimizing experiments. There is also a need for a language specification that goes beyond gates and allows users to specify the time dynamics of a quantum experiment and recover the time dynamics of the output. In this document we provide a specification for a common interface to backends (simulators and experiments) and a standarized data structure (Qobj --- quantum object) for sending experiments to those backends via Qiskit. We also introduce OpenPulse, a language for specifying pulse level control (i.e. control of the continuous time dynamics) of a general quantum device independent of the specific hardware implementation.

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