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SDK Compatibility Matrix
12 QPUs| QPU / Provider | Qiskit | Cirq | CUDA-Q | PennyLane | Q# | Braket SDK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IBM Eagle r1ibm | ||||||
IBM Heron r2ibm | ||||||
IonQ Forteionq | ||||||
IonQ Forte Enterpriseionq | ||||||
Rigetti Ankaa-3rigetti | ||||||
Quantinuum H2-1quantinuum | ||||||
QuEra Aquilaquera | ||||||
IQM Sparkiqm | ||||||
IQM Radianceiqm | ||||||
PASQAL Fresnelpasqal | ||||||
D-Wave Advantagedwave | ||||||
D-Wave Advantage2dwave |
Compatibility changes with framework updates. Verify with official documentation.
Open Source
Quantum Frameworks
Explore the major open-source SDKs for writing and running quantum circuits across different hardware backends.
Qiskit
IBMQiskit is IBM's open-source quantum SDK for writing quantum programs, simulating circuits, and running experiments on IB…
Cirq
Google Quantum AICirq is Google's open-source framework for programming and simulating quantum circuits at the gate level. It is designed…
CUDA-Q
NVIDIACUDA-Q (formerly CUDA Quantum) is NVIDIA's open-source platform for hybrid quantum-classical computing. It provides a un…
PennyLane
XanaduPennyLane is Xanadu's open-source framework specializing in quantum machine learning, quantum chemistry, and optimizatio…
Q#
MicrosoftQ# is Microsoft's domain-specific language for quantum programming, designed to express quantum algorithms at a high lev…
Amazon Braket SDK
Amazon Web ServicesThe Amazon Braket SDK is AWS's Python library for building and running quantum circuits on Amazon Braket hardware and si…
Code Examples
Example: Bell State Circuit
The Bell state is the canonical two-qubit entanglement circuit — a standard starting point for any quantum framework.
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit
from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService, SamplerV2 as Sampler
# Create a Bell state circuit
qc = QuantumCircuit(2, 2)
qc.h(0)
qc.cx(0, 1)
qc.measure([0, 1], [0, 1])
print(qc.draw())
# Submit to IBM Quantum hardware
service = QiskitRuntimeService()
backend = service.least_busy(operational=True, simulator=False)
sampler = Sampler(backend)
job = sampler.run([qc], shots=1024)
result = job.result()Code examples are illustrative. Verify API details with official documentation.
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