Qibolab: an open-source hybrid quantum operating system

TL;DR

Qibolab is an open-source quantum control library integrated with Qibo, enabling standardized, hardware-agnostic execution of quantum algorithms on superconducting qubits and similar platforms.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive, extensible software framework for quantum hardware control that simplifies deployment and standardization of quantum algorithms across different hardware.

Findings

Successful control setup for superconducting qubits

Effective execution of circuit-based algorithms

Hardware-agnostic control software

Abstract

We present Qibolab, an open-source software library for quantum hardware control integrated with the Qibo quantum computing middleware framework. Qibolab provides the software layer required to automatically execute circuit-based algorithms on custom self-hosted quantum hardware platforms. We introduce a set of objects designed to provide programmatic access to quantum control through pulses-oriented drivers for instruments, transpilers and optimization algorithms. Qibolab enables experimentalists and developers to delegate all complex aspects of hardware implementation to the library so they can standardize the deployment of quantum computing algorithms in a extensible hardware-agnostic way, using superconducting qubits as the first officially supported quantum technology. We first describe the status of all components of the library, then we show examples of control setup for superconducting qubits platforms. Finally, we present successful application results related to circuit-based algorithms.