Eclipse Qrisp QAOA: description and preliminary comparison with Qiskit counterparts

TL;DR

This paper introduces Eclipse Qrisp, a high-level quantum programming language, and compares its QAOA implementation against Qiskit, showing promising improvements in solution quality and circuit complexity on Max Cut benchmarks.

Contribution

The paper presents Eclipse Qrisp's QAOA module and provides a preliminary comparison with Qiskit, highlighting its efficiency and potential advantages.

Findings

Eclipse Qrisp outperforms Qiskit in solution quality.

Eclipse Qrisp produces less complex quantum circuits.

Preliminary results are promising for Eclipse Qrisp's effectiveness.

Abstract

This paper focuses on the presentation and evaluation of the high-level quantum programming language Eclipse Qrisp. The presented framework, used for developing and compiling quantum algorithms, is measured in terms of efficiency for its implementation of the Quantum Approximation Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) Module. We measure this efficiency and compare it against two alternative QAOA algorithm implementations using IBM's Qiskit toolkit. The evaluation process has been carried out over a benchmark composed of 15 instances of the well-known Maximum Cut Problem. Through this preliminary experimentation, Eclipse Qrisp demonstrated promising results, outperforming both versions of its counterparts in terms of results quality and circuit complexity.