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IBM Quantum Platform

Qiskit addons

Qiskit addons are a collection of research capabilities for enabling algorithm discovery at the utility scale. These capabilities build on Qiskit's performant foundation of tools for creating and running quantum algorithms. They are provided as modular software components that can plug into a workflow to scale or design new quantum algorithms.


Addons for mapping

Approximate quantum compilation with tensor networks

Approximate quantum compilation with tensor networks (AQC-Tensor) enables the construction of high-fidelity circuits with reduced depth.

Multi-product formulas

Multi-product formulas (MPF) reduce the Trotter error of Hamiltonian dynamics through a weighted combination of several circuit executions.

Optimization mapper

The Optimization Mapper addon contains functionality to model optimization problems by formulating them in abstract models and then converting into representations that a quantum computer can understand.


Addons for optimizing

Operator backpropagation

Operator backpropagation (OBP) reduces circuit depth by trimming operations from the end at the cost of more operator measurements.

Circuit cutting

Circuit cutting reduces the depth of transpiled circuits by decomposing entangling gates between non-adjacent qubits.


Addons for post-processing

Sample-based quantum diagonalization

Sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) classically post-processes noisy quantum samples to yield more accurate eigenvalue estimations of quantum system Hamiltonians, for example in chemistry applications.

SQD for HPC

This addon is an HPC-ready implementation of the SQD addon. It is written in modern C++17 standards and is designed to create a single compiled binary for use with MPI.


Addons for error mitigation

M3 (mthree)

Matrix-free Measurement Mitigation (M3) is a package for scalable quantum measurement error mitigation that can be computed in parallel.

  • Visit the documentation for how-to guides, tutorials, and API references.
  • Visit the package's GitHub page.

Shaded lightcones

The shaded lightcones addon uses Pauli propagation to reduce the number of error terms in a noise model that need to be mitigated, according to the specifics of the target observable. This has the effect of reducing the sampling overhead for probabilistic error cancellation (PEC) workflows.

  • Visit the documentation for how-to guides, tutorials, and API references.

Propagated noise absorption

Propagated noise absorption (PNA) uses Pauli propagation to absorb information from a noise model into a target observable. Measuring this modified observable has the effect of mitigating the noise as represented by the model.

  • Visit the documentation for how-to guides, tutorials, and API references.
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