Circuit Knitting Toolbox

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Circuit Knitting is the process of decomposing a quantum circuit into smaller circuits, executing those smaller circuits on a quantum processor(s), and then knitting their results into a reconstruction of the original circuit’s outcome.

The toolbox currently contains the following tools:

  • Circuit Cutting

This project is meant to evolve rapidly and, as such, does not follow Qiskit’s deprecation policy. We may occasionally make breaking changes in order to improve the user experience. When possible, we will keep old interfaces and mark them as deprecated, as long as they can co-exist with the new ones. Each substantial improvement, breaking change, or deprecation will be documented in the Release Notes.

Citing this project

If you use the Circuit Knitting Toolbox in your research, please cite it according to CITATON.bib file included in this repository:

@misc{circuit-knitting-toolbox,
  author = {Luciano Bello and Agata M. Bra\'{n}czyk and Sergey Bravyi and Almudena {Carrera Vazquez} and Andrew Eddins and Daniel J. Egger and Bryce Fuller and Julien Gacon and James R. Garrison and Jennifer R. Glick and Tanvi P. Gujarati and Ikko Hamamura and Areeq I. Hasan and Takashi Imamichi and Caleb Johnson and Ieva Liepuoniute and Owen Lockwood and Mario Motta and C. D. Pemmaraju and Pedro Rivero and Max Rossmannek and Travis L. Scholten and Seetharami Seelam and Iskandar Sitdikov and Dharmashankar Subramanian and Wei Tang and Stefan Woerner},
  title = {{Circuit Knitting Toolbox}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Qiskit-Extensions/circuit-knitting-toolbox}},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7987997}
}

Developer guide

The source code to the toolbox is available on GitHub.

The developer guide is located at CONTRIBUTING.md in the root of this project’s repository.

Contents

Circuit Cutting

References