Quantum information science
Power tools for designing quantum experiments and new capabilities.
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Qiskit
Qiskit is the world’s most popular and performant software stack for quantum computing and algorithms research. Build, optimize, and execute quantum workloads at scale.
pip install qiskitOpen-source quantum software for large-scale execution
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Qiskit is the software of choice for the era of advantage because it offers the most comprehensive suite of open-source tools for advancing research across the stack. Experiment at scale with the world’s fastest transpiler, which prepares workloads 63x faster than the next leading SDK.
Explore what’s possible with Qiskit
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Heterogeneous orchestration
Qiskit plugins support orchestration of quantum and classical resources.
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Algorithm development
Tools map problems to circuits and prepare them for execution.
Tools for quantum information science
Qiskit offers open-source power tools and a streamlined workflow to help researchers compose utility-scale experiments.
Quantum information science toolkit
Qiskit has tools for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives. It is 63x faster at transpiling and producing circuits with 28% fewer two-qubit gates than the next leading competitor.
- Build quantum circuits from quantum gates
- Compile circuits for execution
- Use primitives to build and execute experiments
- Visualize circuits and analyze results
Benchmark quantum software performance
Use the Benchpress open-source toolkit to evaluate software performance across various quantum SDKs.
Tools for heterogeneous orchestration
Qiskit plugins connect quantum compute resources to existing HPC workload managers for orchestrated quantum-classical executions.
Qiskit quantum hardware plugins
Qiskit is open-source and backend-agnostic, supporting quantum execution across a broad range of popular hardware providers.
- IBM Quantum
- IonQ
- Amazon Braket
- Azure Quantum
- IQM
- Rigetti
- Quantinuum
- Superstaq
- AQT
- Alice & Bob
Quantum resource management
The quantum resource management interface (QRMI) standardizes and simplifies control of quantum resources.
Slurm plugin
This plugin allows you to manage quantum resources using the Slurm workload manager.
Qiskit Serverless
A simple interface to run workloads across quantum-classical resources, supporting multi-cloud and supercomputing use cases.
Tools for algorithm development
Qiskit offers modular tools for designing and customizing algorithms with as little overhead as possible. Save time by using Qiskit addons and function templates to accelerate your work.
Combine addons to build algorithms
Qiskit addons are a collection of algorithmic building blocks for enabling algorithm discovery at utility scale. Combine these modular capabilities as part of your algorithm design workflow.
Save time with pre-built code templates
Qiskit Function templates are realistic code examples that implement the latest research workflows with Qiskit and Qiskit addons.
Apply quantum computing to your use case
Optimization
Explore quantum approaches to combinatorial problems that challenge existing classical methods.
Simulation
Use quantum and HPC to simulate complex systems in nature across physics and chemistry domains.
Quantum machine learning
Boost classical machine learning and uncover new solutions by leveraging quantum kernels.
Partial differential equations
Simulate nonlinear dynamical systems, such as fluid flow dynamics, using quantum variational methods.
Extend Qiskit with projects from the community
Community members create resources that extend Qiskit. Explore these extensions in the Qiskit ecosystem.
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