- QPUs are available from major cloud and specialty vendors, such as IBM, Google, D-Wave and others. Shown to the right is a quantum computer built by IBM
- Each vendor's implementation of QPUs differs. To that end, there are a number of quantum programming languages, libraries and simuators which you will use when writing quantum programs
- There are several catagories of quantum programming: learning/teaching, public cloud or specialty cloud
The table below shows a sampling of available Quantum programming teaching libraries and visualization tools.
| Type | Name | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Library | QCEngine | https://oreilly-qc.github.io/ |
| Library | QLP | www.quantumplayground.net/ |
| Library | Quantum Inspire | www.quantum-inspire.com/ |
| Library | Quirk | https://algassert.com/quirk |
The table below shows a sampling of available Quantum programming languages or libraries available on a public cloud.
| Lang or Lib | Dialect | Vendor | Simulators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q# | C# | Microsoft | local+Azure |
| OpenQASM | C++ | IBM | IBM cloud |
| Qiskit | Python | IBM | IBM cloud |
| Cirq | Python | GCP (vendor) | |
| Braket | Python | AWS | 3 local by type |
| PennyLane | Python | PennyLane for ML on AWS++ | by vendor |
The table below shows a sampling of available Quantum programming visualization tools.
| Type | Name | Vendor |
|---|---|---|
| Circuit | Program Circuit | book |
| Qubits | Circle Notation | book |
| Qubits | DumpMachine | Microsoft |
| Matrix | DumpOperation | Microsoft |
| Circuit | Trace & Debug | Microsoft |
| Circuit | Composer | IBM |
| Qubits | Q-Sphere | IBM |
| Both | Quirk | algassert.com |