ProjectQ - Software for Quantum Computing

Damian Steiger
Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Quantum computers promise to transform our notions of computation by offering a completely new paradigm. As early quantum computers are expected to grow considerably in size in the next few years, it is high time to develop software for quantum computing. In particular, a high level quantum programming language and optimizing compilers are essential components to achieve scalable quantum computation. In order to address this, we introduced the ProjectQ software framework - an open source effort to support both theorists and experimentalists by providing intuitive tools to implement and run quantum algorithms. In this talk I will give an overview of ProjectQ and highlight the latest developments.