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Publications (8)

quant-ph2026

Standardizing Access to Heterogeneous Quantum Backends: A Case Study on Cloud Service Integration with QDMI

Patrick Hopf, Sebastian Stern, Robert Wille +1

With an increasingly diverse portfolio of quantum backends, the adoption of standardized interfaces has become a key prerequisite for scalable access and interoperability within qu…

quant-ph2025

QuTiP 5: The Quantum Toolbox in Python

Neill Lambert, Eric Giguère, Paul Menczel +15

QuTiP, the Quantum Toolbox in Python, has been at the forefront of open-source quantum software for the past 13 years. It is used as a research, teaching, and industrial tool, and…

quant-ph2026

Practical HPCQC Integration with QDMI: A Real-Hardware Case Study with IQM Systems

Lukas Burgholzer, Marcel Walter, Patrick Hopf +7

Quantum computers are moving into HPC centers, and the main challenge is now integration rather than pure hardware access. Many current software paths still depend on vendor-specif…

quant-ph2026

Integrating Quantum Software Tools with(in) MLIR

Patrick Hopf, Erick Ochoa Lopez, Yannick Stade +6

Compilers transform code into action. They convert high-level programs into executable hardware instructions - a crucial step in enabling reliable and scalable quantum computation.…

quant-ph2025

Improving Figures of Merit for Quantum Circuit Compilation

Patrick Hopf, Nils Quetschlich, Laura Schulz +1

Quantum computing is an emerging technology that has seen significant software and hardware improvements in recent years. Executing a quantum program requires the compilation of it…

quant-ph2026

The Munich Quantum Software Stack: Connecting End Users, Integrating Diverse Quantum Technologies, Accelerating HPC

Lukas Burgholzer, Jorge Echavarria, Patrick Hopf +11

Quantum computing is advancing rapidly in hardware and algorithms, but broad accessibility demands a comprehensive, efficient, unified software stack. Such a stack must flexibly sp…

quant-ph2026

The MQT Compiler Collection: A Blueprint for a Future-Proof Quantum-Classical Compilation Framework

Lukas Burgholzer, Daniel Haag, Yannick Stade +3

As the capabilities of quantum computing hardware continue to rise, algorithms that exploit them are becoming increasingly complex. These developments increase the need for sophist…

quant-ph2026

Transpiler Autotuning with Predictive Models for Quantum Circuit Optimization

Piotr Malkowski, Domenik Eichhorn, Joshua Ammermann +4

Quantum software engineering is an emerging research field focusing on efficiently embedding the quantum programming paradigm into existing software ecosystems. A key aspect of thi…