arXiv:2003.13961quant-ph
An Open-Source, Industrial-Strength Optimizing Compiler for Quantum Programs
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Abstract
Quilc is an open-source, optimizing compiler for gate-based quantum programs written in Quil or QASM, two popular quantum programming languages. The compiler was designed with attention toward NISQ-era quantum computers, specifically recognizing that each quantum gate has a non-negligible and often irrecoverable cost toward a program's successful execution. Quilc's primary goal is to make authoring quantum software a simpler exercise by making architectural details less burdensome to the author. Using Quilc allows one to write programs faster while usually not compromising---and indeed sometimes improving---their execution fidelity on a given hardware architecture. In this paper, we describe many of the principles behind Quilc's design, and demonstrate the compiler with various examples.
Rigetti Computing is a company that builds quantum computers. We have used Common Lisp in production at Rigetti Computing for 4 years both in cloud deployment as well as for a downloadable SDK. Common Lisp is used to build what is currently the best free optimizing compiler for…
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