IBM Quantum

Qiskit is the most performant quantum software development kit. In a new open source suite of over 1,000 benchmarking tests developed by leading universities, national labs, and IBM—the relative speed, and quality of quantum framework Qiskit offered in most tests are second-to-none. When measured against the closest leading quantum software development kits, Qiskit showed its overall speed in both the ability to build and manipulate quantum circuits, as well the speed in synthesizing and transpiling them. In regards to quality, Qiskit transpiled circuits with the lowest number of 2Q gates—in other words, needing far fewer operations when running circuits on hardware, therefore generating less noise and superior results. And finally, Qiskit was the only software that was able to complete all of the possible tests. These are just a few of the impressive results from a recently released paper sharing the results. There is still work to be done to scale Qiskit into the software requried to run programs on fault-tolerant quantum computers. But at the moment, Qiskit is the software that quantum users who care about performance should be using. Head to the IBM Quantum blog for a deeper dive on performance results: https://lnkd.in/eGN_xDme

Introducing the Qiskit Functions Catalog. https://ibm.co/4ekVzdj Qiskit Functions operates as a selection of services that will ultimately abstract away parts of the quantum workflow resulting in an acceleration of algorithm and application development, plus hopefully the discovery of enterprise-specific use cases. The Qiskit Functions Catalog is a platform which we hope will become the go-to place for developers to offer tools that extend utility-scale quantum computing for the ever-growing quantum community. The functions included are broken down into two categories: Circuit Functions and Application Functions. Circuit Functions work to simplify the interface for running circuits—shifting the focus for quantum computational scientists to map their problems to circuits, rather than building the pattern for each problem from scratch. Applications Functions allow users to work from a higher level view—users can explore domain-specific use cases and explore algorithms to easily experiment and see where quantum can be plugged in to their workflows. And today, startups Algorithmiq, Q-CTRL, QEDMA, and QunaSys will be the first to offer functions on the Qiskit Functions catalog. The Qiskit Functions catalog was built to not only make Qiskit more accessible, but more useful for both quantum developers and quantum computational scientists and enterprises to unlock more quantum computing capabilities together. Now available in preview for our Premium Plan users, head over to the IBM Quantum blog for more.

Qiskit is the highest-performing quantum software development kit for building and transpiling quantum circuits, based on the results of our benchmarking using over 1,000 tests developed by leading universities, national labs, and IBM, released in an open-source package today. https://ibm.co/4d7Vzvx Today we’re releasing those results in a paper on the arXiv where Qiskit was pitted against other leading quantum software development kits. The outcome is clear—Qiskit is the go-to quantum SDK for researchers and developers interested in performance. We will release the suite of tests today as part of an open-source package named Benchpress to enable the Quantum Industry to confirm and expand upon this analysis in order to provide meaningful comparisons between quantum SDKs. In our testing, Qiskit successfully completed the most tests and transpiled circuits with the best combination of speed and number of gates. For many of the tests, only Qiskit was feature-complete enough to be able to finish them. As this package is open source, we encourage you to run the tests on your own and contribute to Benchpress. We’re thrilled with the results of these tests, but there is still work ahead to continue scaling Qiskit. And we look forward to making the most-performant quantum software even more accessible, with details about the Qiskit Functions Catalog coming later today. Head over to the IBM Quantum blog for more about Qiskit's Performance.

Are you attending IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Sep 15–20, at Palais des Congrès in Montréal? IBM Quantum will be in attendance at QCE24 in a big way! Jay Gambetta, VP of IBM Quantum, will deliver the September 16th keynote to expand on how advances in benchmarking and performance management are unlocking new users and markets in quantum computing. The keynote will also touch on the development of quantum algorithms and useful applications, now being driven by the scaling of quantum software. Along with this exclusive keynote, 18 additional IBMer-led panels, talks, and workshops will take place throughout the three-day conference. Check out the IBMer talk schedule at IEEE Quantum Week 2024 below and be sure to stop by the IBM Quantum booth in the exhibit hall. We hope to see you there!

Calling all IBM Quantum users! Whether you're leveraging Qiskit, using the IBM Quantum platform, exploring our documentation, or engaging with our learning resources, we want to hear from you. Your feedback is essential as we strive to enhance IBM Quantum products and services to better meet your needs. Take a few moments to complete our survey and help shape the future of quantum computing. Your insights will make a difference. Share your thoughts: https://ibm.co/47c4Zox

Qiskit Serverless has reached a new stage of maturity, and is ready to give users the ability to scale quantum jobs across multiple quantum and classical compute resources. https://lnkd.in/d3WF6YnU We first announced Qiskit Serverless at the IBM Quantum Summit 2023. Now with improvements made over the last year, users can leverage both quantum and classical resources in a cloud environment, perform complex long-running tasks, and efficiently execute their workflows even after they've hit the resources limits of the local machine they may be using for quantum experiments. This infrastructural tool will not only enable users to deploy their workloads to the cloud, freeing up compute resources for other work, but will also set the environment necessary for a new era of cloud-enabled quantum computing and new managed quantum-classical services like Qiskit Functions. Head to the IBM Quantum Blog to learn more and get started with Qiskit Serverless today.

Qiskit v1.2 is here! Take a look at the latest IBM Quantum Blog for release notes: https://lnkd.in/eThBkc_N This minor version release includes a number of important new features and improvements, all aimed at boosting the Qiskit SDK’s industry-leading performance and functionality. We are laser-focused on Qiskit’s position as the most powerful, high-performant quantum SDK in the world, and we believe we are continuing to maintain that in Qiskit v1.2 through significant enhancements to the performance and overall quality of the Qiskit transpiler.

Bringing useful quantum computing to the world requires also making the world quantum-safe. And it’s even more important that we reverberate that mission when it comes to our own infrastructure. That’s why we’re pursuing a comprehensive, long-term plan to integrate quantum-safe security protocols across all IBM hardware, software, and services. It all starts with ensuring that the IBM Quantum Platform, which provides cloud access to our fleet of utility-scale quantum systems, is fully quantum safe—using a host of tools that we’ve already made available for enterprises looking to begin their quantum safe journeys as well. This transformation will be conducted in stages, the first of which is already taking place now. Today, we are working to implement post-quantum encryption to enable quantum-safe Transport Layer Security (TLS). This legacy encryption works with the IBM Quantum Platform and extends through the firewall that protects the IBM Cloud, and soon it will be protected by quantum-safe encryption. Our goal is for researchers and developers that use our quantum services to trust that when they submit a quantum computational task to IBM Quantum Platform, it will be quantum safe from the client down into the cloud services layer. From there we can continue this initiative into Qiskit Runtime, and later across all IBM hardware and software. Head to the IBM Quantum blog for more details: https://ibm.co/4ctUu0E

Yesterday, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology published their first set of standards that will help guide organizations on their journeys to migrate to post-quantum cryptography. As we begin to prepare for a quantum world, we need to understand the importance of these new standards and how they will be the bedrock in our mission to make the world quantum safe. Watch our panel hosted by IBM Fellow and Quantum Safe Lead Ray Harishankar for a deep dive on the significance of today’s NIST announcement, common use case considerations for enterprise organizations, and to better understand how IBM Quantum Safe will drive community collaboration to support crypto-agility in the near and distant future. https://ibm.co/4dokwUt

Today, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology published the first set of post-quantum cryptography standards, formalizing three algorithms to strengthen modern public-key cryptography infrastructure for the quantum era. We’re proud to share that two of the standards were developed by IBM cryptography researchers in Zurich with external collaborators, and a third was co-developed by a scientist who has since joined IBM. The algorithms that will chart the path forward for organizations around the world transitioning post-quantum cryptography are: - ML-KEM — a key encapsulation mechanism selected for general encryption, such as for accessing secured websites - ML-DSA — a lattice-based algorithm chosen for general-purpose digital signature protocols - SLH-DSA — a stateless hash-based digital signature scheme At the heart of our mission to bring useful quantum computing to the world is to also make the world quantum safe. Now that these algorithms have become the standard, they will be foundational to IBM guiding the enablement of organizations in their journeys to execute quantum-safe migrations in tandem with other cybersecurity modernization efforts. Learn more about NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards at the IBM Research Blog here: https://ibm.co/3YE4vFz