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Quantum Computer

01 /Quantum Computers 02 /How to build a qubit 03 /Spin qubits (beginner level) 04 /Operations on spin qubits (beginner level) 05 /Electron spin qubits 06 /Capturing a single electron 07 /Quantum dot qubits 08 /Quantum control and readout 09 /Qubit errors 10 /NV center qubits 11 /Operations on NV center qubits 12 /The Transmon Qubit - A basis for the Quantum Computer 13 /Operations on the Transmon Qubit - Circuit QED 14 /Single-qubit operations on the Transmon qubit 15 /Measurements on the Transmon Qubit 16 /Two-qubit operations on the Transmon qubit 17 /Topological qubits: Anyons 18 /Operations on anyons: Braiding 19 /Operations on anyons: Real-life experiments 20 /Topological quantum computing: Majorana fermions and where to find them 21 /Majorana bound states in superconductors 22 /How do you measure Majorana bound states? 23 /A framework for the future Quantum Computer 24 /The Building Blocks of a Quantum Computer 25 /How to build a Quantum Algorithm - Quantum Circuits 26 /How do you program a quantum algorithm? 27 /The compiler of a quantum computer 28 /Micro-architectures 29 /How do we connect our quantum system to a classical interface? 30 /Assembling a Quantum Processor 31 /Microwave drivers for qubits 32 /Implementation of microwave drivers 33 /Quantum error correction 34 /Surface codes 35 /Fault-tolerant Quantum Error Correction with surface codes

How do you program a quantum algorithm?

Since the field of quantum computing has started emerging, many algorithms have come up and programmed to provide a significant speed-up compared to their classical counterparts. You may have already heard about the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT), Shor's or Grover's algorithm. 

However, to transform generic quantum algorithms into a form that can be executed on an actual device, we will need a compiler. The compiler is a classical computer program that bridges the gap between the quantum algorithm, or the software, and the quantum hardware. These compilers, in turn, require us to express quantum algorithms in specific quantum programming languages. In this video, QuTech's Nader Khammassi walks you through these two components of the future quantum computer, taking Shor's algorithm as an example.

Further Thinking

This software has to be specific for each quantum platform. Why is this the case?

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