EM4QS – Enhanced Middleware for Quantum Software
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Project description
Quantum software development is currently influenced primarily by physicists and information theory practitioners and hardware engineers, with computer scientists in an assisting role. Despite recent advancements, it is too early to say what will be the transistor equivalent of qubits, but we do know that unlocking the efficient use of the existing qubits is the key to unlocking practical and useful quantum computing, especially when building large hybrid classical-quantum systems. However, the current process is brittle and inefficient.
The EM4QS project has three main goals: efficient compilation infrastructure that uses intermediate representations to leverage the low-level limitations of physical qubits but also enables higher level concepts closer to logical qubits; lack of established architectural description languages to model and develop applications of quantum computers; and efficient execution quantum computation environments that make it easy to run programs on multitude of simulators and hardware platforms and provide seamless interworking for classical-quantum computing.
The research is conducted in collaboration between the Quantum Information and Computation research group at Faculty of Information Technology, Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ and the Department of Computer Science at Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki. The participating companies are CSC - IT Center for Science, QuantrolOx, Quanscient, SemiQon and Unitary Zero Space.
