US 2019/0102496 A1 · INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE FOR COMPOSING QUANTUM CIRCUITS

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for composing quantum circuits and rendering graphical representations thereof within an interactive user interface. The user interface may be a quantum circuits composer interface into which a quantum circuit can be written via drag-and-drop user interactions with the interface that involve placing symbols representative of quantum operations (gates and measurements) on interactive elements (e.g., linear elements) representing qubits and/or classical bits, or more specifically, the state of qubits/classical bits over time. Quantum circuits created using the quantum circuits composer interface can be translated into a scripting language. In addition, user commands provided via a command line interface (CLI) can be translated into a corresponding quantum circuit and a graphical representation thereof can be dynamically generated. Modifications to the code commands can be dynamically reflected in the graphical representation.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for composing a quantum circuit, the method comprising:

providing a user interface comprising:
a set of interactive elements corresponding to qubits of a physical quantum processor, wherein each interactive element represents a progression of quantum information over time in a respective qubit;
and
a set of symbols, wherein each symbol is representative of a corresponding operation capable of being performed on one or more of the qubits;
receiving user input indicative of:
i) one or more symbols selected from the set of symbols, ii) a corresponding one or more interactive elements with which the one or more symbols are associated, and iii) a temporal order in which the one or more symbols are associated with the one or more interactive elements;
and
composing the quantum circuit based at least in part on the user input, wherein composing the quantum circuit comprises generating and displaying a graphical representation of the quantum circuit that includes the one or more symbols rendered in association with the one or more interactive elements in accordance with the temporal order.

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A system for composing a quantum circuit, the system comprising:

at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions;
and
at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to:
provide a user interface comprising:
a set of interactive elements corresponding to qubits of a physical quantum processor, wherein each interactive element represents a progression of quantum information over time in a respective qubit;
and
a set of symbols, wherein each symbol is representative of a corresponding operation capable of being performed on one or more of the qubits;
receive user input indicative of:
i) one or more symbols selected from the set of symbols, ii) a corresponding one or more interactive elements with which the one or more symbols are associated, and iii) a temporal order in which the one or more symbols are associated with the one or more interactive elements;
and
compose the quantum circuit based at least in part on the user input, wherein composing the quantum circuit comprises generating and displaying a graphical representation of the quantum circuit that includes the one or more symbols rendered in association with the one or more interactive elements in accordance with the temporal order.

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A computer program product for composing a quantum circuit, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit, the storage medium storing instructions executable by the processing circuit to cause a method to be performed, the method comprising:

providing a user interface comprising:
a set of interactive elements corresponding to qubits of a physical quantum processor, wherein each interactive element represents a progression of quantum information over time in a respective qubit;
and
a set of symbols, wherein each symbol is representative of a corresponding operation capable of being performed on one or more of the qubits;
receiving user input indicative of:
i) one or more symbols selected from the set of symbols, ii) a corresponding one or more interactive elements with which the one or more symbols are associated, and iii) a temporal order in which the one or more symbols are associated with the one or more interactive elements;
and
composing the quantum circuit based at least in part on the user input, wherein composing the quantum circuit comprises generating and displaying a graphical representation of the quantum circuit that includes the one or more symbols rendered in association with the one or more interactive elements in accordance with the temporal order.

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A web-based system for composing a quantum circuit, the web-based system comprising:

a server storing a graphical user interface (GUI) for composing the quantum circuit, the GUI comprising:
a set of interactive elements corresponding to qubits of a physical quantum processor, wherein each interactive element represents a progression of quantum information over time in a respective qubit;
and
a set of symbols, wherein each symbol is representative of a corresponding operation capable of being performed on one or more of the qubits;
and
wherein the GUI enables selection of any symbol in the set of symbols and association of the selected symbol with one or more of the interactive elements, and wherein association of the selected symbol with the one or more interactive elements indicates that the corresponding operation for the selected symbol is to be performed in the quantum circuit on one or more qubits corresponding to the one or more interactive elements.

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Interactive user interface for composing quantum circuits

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