Presented at All Things Open 2023 Presented by Paul Schweigert, Iskandar Sitdikov, Michael Maximilien - IBM Title: Surveying the Open Quantum Landscape: Open source tools for quantum computing Abstract: We’ve all heard about the changes that quantum computing will cause, among them faster algorithms, new solutions to complex problems, and threats to the cryptography that the modern web is based on. But more specifically, what does the rise of quantum computing mean for the open source community? In this talk, Paul, Iskandar, and Max will provide a survey of the open quantum landscape, focusing on three keys areas. First, they’ll cover toolkits to create programs (circuits) for quantum computers such as the well known Qiskit toolkit, the QASM common assembly language, and other such programming kits. This collection of OSS tools enable users to create programs (circuits) for quantum computers in order to build, optimize, and execute quantum workloads at scale. Second, they’ll do a dive deep into the open source tools developed by the Open Quantum Safe project to provide post-quantum cryptography that will keep our data safe. Finally, they’ll plumb into open source tools for orchestrating quantum and classical workloads developed by the Middleware for Quantum projects. Throughout the presentation they will demonstrate the important role that open source will play in the future of quantum computing. Find more info about All Things Open: On the web: https://www.allthingsopen.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllThingsOpen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/all-things-open/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allthingsopen/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllThingsOpen Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@allthingsopen Threads: https://www.threads.net/@allthingsopen 2023 conference: https://2023.allthingsopen.org/

1. Surveying the Quantum Landscape:
Open Source Tools for
Quantum Computing
Paul Schweigert and Iskandar Sitdikov, IBM

2. Speakers
Paul Schweigert (psschwei.com)
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Knative Technical Oversight Committee
Qiskit Advocate
Kubernetes Contributor
Iskandar Sitdikov
Qiskit Dev @ IBM Quantum

3. Agenda
• Overview of Quantum Computing
• Quantum-Safe Cryptography
• Qiskit & Qiskit Ecosystem
• Q&A

4. Agenda
• Overview of Quantum Computing
• Quantum-Safe Cryptography
• Qiskit & Qiskit Ecosystem
• Q&A

5. Hard problems
(NP)
Quantum easy
Easy problems
(polynomial)
Why quantum?
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6. Quantum computers use qubits
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7. Ex: Shor’s algorithm for factoring
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UrdExQW0cs

8. Agenda
• Overview of Quantum Computing
• Quantum-Safe Cryptography
• Qiskit & Qiskit Ecosystem
• Q&A

13. 
CRYSTALS-Kyber
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CRYSTALS-Dilithium
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FALCON
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SPINCS+

14. https://learning.quantum-computing.ibm.com/course/practical-introduction-to-quantum-safe-cryptography

15. Open Quantum Safe
liboqs: an open source C library for quantum-
safe cryptographic algorithms
It provides:
● a collection of open-source implementations
of quantum-safe algorithms
● a common API
● tests and benchmarks
Applications:
● TLS
● SSH
● X.509
● CMS and S/MIME
https://openquantumsafe.org/
Core team from: University of Waterloo, IBM, AWS, Microsoft, baentsch.ch

16. Cryptography Bill Of Materials (CBOM)
CBOM: an object model to describe crypto-
assets and their dependencies
● Model crypto assets
● Capture crypto asset properties
● Capture crypto asset dependencies
● Applicable to various software components
● High compatibility with SBOMs and relating
tooling
● Enables automatic reasoning

17. Agenda
• Overview of Quantum Computing
• Quantum-Safe Cryptography
• Qiskit & Qiskit Ecosystem
• Q&A

18. What is Qiskit?

19. Code snippet

20. What is Qiskit?
Research Development Community

21. What is Qiskit?
Research Development Community

22. 1400+ research papers

23. Access to a wide range of quantum systems
Cross-platform support
● Superconducting: IBM Quantum, Rigetti
● Trapped ions: AQT, IonQ, Quantinuum (Honeywell)
● Spin qubits: Quantum Inspire
● Cold atoms: Qiskit Cold Atom provider
● Platform: Azure Quantum, Amazon Braket
● Simulator: cuQuantum (NVIDIA)

24. What is Qiskit?
Research
Development Community

25. Executed by IBM
On target
Development Roadmap

26. Qiskit is extensible
Transpiler passes
Provider and backends
Visualization
Circuit cutting and knitting
Error mitigation and correction
And much more!
Qiskit enables more software that
anybody else in the field!
Dec-22 Jan-23 Feb-23 Mar-23 Apr-23 May-23 Jun-23 Jul-23
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215 215
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253
258
84 85 87
95 92
96 99 101
31 34 37
41 44 46 47 49
Recursive Dependants
Qiskit Cirq PennyLane

27. Qiskit Ecosystem
qiskit.org/ecosystem
The Ecosystem consists of
projects, tools, utilities, libraries
and tutorials from a broad
community of developers and
researchers.
The goal of the Ecosystem is to
celebrate, support and accelerate
development of quantum
technologies using Qiskit.

28. Quantum Middleware
Quantum serverless CKT

29. What is Qiskit?
Research Development Community

30. Qiskit advocate program
The Qiskit advocate program
(qiskit.org/advocates) is a global
program that provides support
to the individuals who actively
contribute to the Qiskit
Community.
The Jack

31. How Qiskit is developed?
Development
Research
Research
Ecosystem
Contributors
…

32. Can I contribute to Qiskit?
But I don’t have a PhD, can I still
contribute?
But I’m not good at math/physics, can I still
contribute?
But I’ve never contributed to open source
before, can I still contribute?
Yes!
Yeap
But I’m not a Python dev, more a Rust, can I still
contribute? Actually, yes
Oh, in that case, no
IBM Quantum / © 2023 IBM Corporation
Yes
Just kidding, YES!
qisk.it/good-first-issues
qisk.it/help-wanted

33. Low code /
no code
Support the wider community
qisk.it/support
Documentation
qiskit.org/documentation
Translations
qisk.it/translate
Research papers
qiskit.org/ecosystem
Bug reports
Feature requests
Reproduce issues

34. Qiskit Kung-Fu
Level 1: Circuits, backends,
primitives, visualization
Level 2: Circuit lib, operators,
algorithms
Level 3: Circuit compilation, error
mitigation, error correction

35. Agenda
• Overview of Quantum Computing
• Quantum-Safe Cryptography
• Qiskit & Qiskit Ecosystem
• Q&A