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most citedMQT Bench: Benchmarking Software and Design Automation Tools for Quantum Computing

197 citations · 424 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

quant-ph2026

Evaluating the Effect of the Order of Optimization Passes in Quantum Circuit Optimization

Xiao-Ting Michelle To, Nils Quetschlich, Amr Elsharkawy +3

Quantum circuit optimization is critical for mitigating the noise inherent in current quantum hardware. Quantum compilers typically sequentially apply multiple optimizations (also…

quant-ph2026★ 3 cited

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

An experience-based classification of quantum bugs in quantum software

Nils Quetschlich, Olivia Di Matteo

As quantum computers continue to improve in quality and scale, there is a growing need for accessible software frameworks for programming them. However, the unique behavior of quan…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Improving Hardware Requirements for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing by Optimizing Error Budget Distributions

Tobias Forster, Nils Quetschlich, Mathias Soeken +1

Despite significant progress in quantum computing in recent years, executing quantum circuits for practical problems remains challenging due to error-prone quantum hardware. Hence,…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Circuit Optimization for the Fault-Tolerance Era: Do We Have to Start from Scratch?

Tobias Forster, Nils Quetschlich, Robert Wille

Quantum computing has made significant advancements in the last years in both hardware and software. Unfortunately, the currently available Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ)…

quant-ph2025★ 4 cited

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-ph2024

Towards Equivalence Checking of Classical Circuits Using Quantum Computing

Nils Quetschlich, Tobias Forster, Adrian Osterwind +2

Quantum computers and quantum algorithms have made great strides in the last few years and promise improvements over classical computing for specific tasks. Although the current ha…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

A Predictive Approach for Selecting the Best Quantum Solver for an Optimization Problem

Deborah Volpe, Nils Quetschlich, Mariagrazia Graziano +2

Leveraging quantum computers for optimization problems holds promise across various application domains. Nevertheless, utilizing respective quantum computing solvers requires descr…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

Towards an Automatic Framework for Solving Optimization Problems with Quantum Computers

Deborah Volpe, Nils Quetschlich, Mariagrazia Graziano +2

Optimizing objective functions stands to benefit significantly from leveraging quantum computers, promising enhanced solution quality across various application domains in the futu…

quant-ph2024★ 51 cited

The MQT Handbook: A Summary of Design Automation Tools and Software for Quantum Computing

Robert Wille, Lucas Berent, Tobias Forster +10

Quantum computers are becoming a reality and numerous quantum computing applications with a near-term perspective (e.g., for finance, chemistry, machine learning, and optimization)…

quant-ph2024

A Framework to Formulate Pathfinding Problems for Quantum Computing

Damian Rovara, Nils Quetschlich, Robert Wille

With the applications of quantum computing becoming more and more widespread, finding ways that allow end users without experience in the field to apply quantum computers to solve…

quant-ph2024

Towards Application-Aware Quantum Circuit Compilation

Nils Quetschlich, Florian J. Kiwit, Maximilian A. Wolf +4

Quantum computing has made tremendous improvements in both software and hardware that have sparked interest in academia and industry to realize quantum computing applications. To t…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Utilizing Resource Estimation for the Development of Quantum Computing Applications

Nils Quetschlich, Mathias Soeken, Prakash Murali +1

Quantum computing has made considerable progress in recent years in both software and hardware. But to unlock the power of quantum computers in solving problems that cannot be effi…

quant-ph2023★ 24 cited

MQT Predictor: Automatic Device Selection with Device-Specific Circuit Compilation for Quantum Computing

Nils Quetschlich, Lukas Burgholzer, Robert Wille

Fueled by recent accomplishments in quantum computing hardware and software, an increasing number of problems from various application domains are being explored as potential use c…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

A Hybrid Classical Quantum Computing Approach to the Satellite Mission Planning Problem

Nils Quetschlich, Vincent Koch, Lukas Burgholzer +1

Hundreds of satellites equipped with cameras orbit the Earth to capture images from locations for various purposes. Since the field of view of the cameras is usually very narrow, t…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Reducing the Compilation Time of Quantum Circuits Using Pre-Compilation on the Gate Level

Nils Quetschlich, Lukas Burgholzer, Robert Wille

In order to implement a quantum computing application, problem instances must be encoded into a quantum circuit and then compiled for a specific platform. The lengthy compilation p…

quant-ph2022★ 18 cited

Recommending Solution Paths for Solving Optimization Problems with Quantum Computing

Benedikt Poggel, Nils Quetschlich, Lukas Burgholzer +2

Solving real-world optimization problems with quantum computing requires choosing between a large number of options concerning formulation, encoding, algorithm and hardware. Findin…

quant-ph2022★ 42 cited

Compiler Optimization for Quantum Computing Using Reinforcement Learning

Nils Quetschlich, Lukas Burgholzer, Robert Wille

Any quantum computing application, once encoded as a quantum circuit, must be compiled before being executable on a quantum computer. Similar to classical compilation, quantum comp…

quant-ph2022★ 20 cited

Towards an Automated Framework for Realizing Quantum Computing Solutions

Nils Quetschlich, Lukas Burgholzer, Robert Wille

Quantum computing is fast evolving as a technology due to recent advances in hardware, software, as well as the development of promising applications. To use this technology for so…

quant-ph2022★ 31 cited

Predicting Good Quantum Circuit Compilation Options

Nils Quetschlich, Lukas Burgholzer, Robert Wille

Any potential application of quantum computing, once encoded as a quantum circuit, needs to be compiled in order to be executed on a quantum computer. Deciding which qubit technolo…

quant-ph2022★ 197 cited

MQT Bench: Benchmarking Software and Design Automation Tools for Quantum Computing

Nils Quetschlich, Lukas Burgholzer, Robert Wille

Quantum software tools for a wide variety of design tasks on and across different levels of abstraction are crucial in order to eventually realize useful quantum applications. This…