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Quantum macro assembler for D-Wave systems
https://github.com/lanl/qmasm

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Quantum macro assembler for D-Wave systems

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/lanl/qmasm
Owner: lanl
License: other
Created: 2016-07-08T20:10:22.000Z (over 8 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2021-02-28T01:25:34.000Z (over 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-05-19T03:43:40.174Z (6 months ago)
Topics: quantum-computing, quantum-information, quantum-programming-language
Language: Python
Size: 721 KB
Stars: 337
Watchers: 42
Forks: 73
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.md

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README

        QMASM: A Quantum Macro Assembler

================================

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Description

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QMASM fills a gap in the software ecosystem for [D-Wave's adiabatic quantum computers](http://www.dwavesys.com/) by shielding the programmer from having to know system-specific hardware details while still enabling programs to be expressed at a fairly low level of abstraction.  It is therefore analogous to a conventional macro assembler and can be used in much the same way: as a target either for programmers who want a great deal of control over the hardware or for compilers that implement higher-level languages.

N.B. This tool used to be called "QASM" but was renamed to avoid confusion with [MIT's QASM](http://www.media.mit.edu/quanta/quanta-web/projects/qasm-tools/), which is used to describe quantum circuits (a different model of quantum computation from what the D-Wave uses) and the [IBM Quantum Experience](http://www.research.ibm.com/quantum/)'s [QASM (now OpenQASM) language](https://github.com/QISKit/openqasm), also used for describing quantum circuits.

Installation

------------

QMASM is written in Python.  The latest release can be downloaded and installed from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/qmasm/) via

```bash

pip install qmasm

```

Alternatively, QMASM can be installed manually from GitHub using the standard [Setuptools](https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/) installation mechanisms.  For example, use

```bash

python setup.py install

```

to install QMASM in the default location and

```bash

python setup.py install --prefix=/my/install/directory

```

to install elsewhere.

Documentation

-------------

Documentation for QMASM can be found on the [QMASM wiki](https://github.com/lanl/qmasm/wiki).

QMASM (then known as QASM) is discussed in the following publication:

> Scott Pakin. "A Quantum Macro Assembler". In _Proceedings of the 20th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference_ (HPEC 2016), Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, 13–15 September 2016.  DOI: [10.1109/HPEC.2016.7761637](http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HPEC.2016.7761637).

License

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QMASM is provided under a BSD-ish license with a "modifications must be indicated" clause.  See [the LICENSE file](http://github.com/lanl/qmasm/blob/master/LICENSE.md) for the full text.

This package is part of the Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing suite, known internally as LA-CC-16-032.

Author

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Scott Pakin,