Abstract: This invention relates to a method of building a hybrid quantum-classical computing network, comprising: a first step of transformation of an application composed of services into a Petri net including both Petri places (8, 9) and Petri transitions (81, 82, 91-94) between said Petri places (8, 9), any said Petri place (8, 9) corresponding to: either a first type building block corresponding to any quantum processing unit (8) which processes a job into a result, or a second type building block corresponding to any plugin unit (9), which converts a job into another job and/or a result into another result, any Petri transition (81, 82, 91-94) corresponding to any link between two building blocks (8, 9), all said links (81, 82, 91-94) being formatted so as to make any building block (8, 9) interchangeable, a second step of transformation of said Petri net into a hybrid quantum-classical computing network, replacing any building block by its corresponding unit (8, 9), interconnecting all said corresponding units (

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computing system for executing hybrid programs, said computing system comprising: hardware resources comprising quantum computing resources and classical computing resources, said quantum computing resources comprising one or more quantum computers; software resources to be executed on the hardware resources; wherein the software resources comprise a plurality of processing modules comprising interfaces of two possible types referred to as upstream interface and downstream interface, wherein said plurality of processing modules comprises: at least one quantum processing module for each quantum computer, wherein each quantum processing module comprises an upstream interface; a plurality of plugin modules, wherein each plugin module comprises both an upstream interface and a downstream interface; wherein a hybrid program is built by connecting at least one plugin module and one quantum processing module.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computing system comprising a classical computer, an analog quantum computer and a digital quantum computer, said computing system comprising: a digital quantum processing, DQP, module comprising an input interface for receiving a quantum circuit to be executed by the digital quantum computer; an analog quantum processing, AQP, module comprising an input interface for receiving a temporal schedule to be executed by the analog quantum computer; a digital to analog converting, DAC, module comprising an input interface for receiving a quantum circuit and an output interface for outputting a temporal schedule; wherein a same format is used on the input interfaces of both the DQP module and the DAC module, and a same format is used on both the output interface of the DAC module and the input interface of the AQP module.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of building a hybrid quantum-classical computing network, comprising: a first step of transformation of an application composed of services into a Petri net including both Petri places (8, 9) and Petri transitions (81, 82, 91-94) between said Petri places (8, 9), any said Petri place (8, 9) corresponding to: either a first type building block corresponding to any quantum processing unit (8) which processes a job into a result, or a second type building block corresponding to any plugin unit (9), which converts a job into another job and/or a result into another result, any Petri transition (81, 82, 91-94) corresponding to any link between two building blocks (8, 9), all said links (81, 82, 91-94) being formatted so as to make any building block (8, 9) interchangeable, a second step of transformation of said Petri net into a hybrid quantum-classical computing network, replacing any building block by its corresponding unit (8, 9), interconnecting all said corresponding units (

Abstract: A method for finding an optimal quantum state minimizing the energy of a Hamiltonian operator with a quantum processor and a classical processor comprising a quantum circuit for producing trial quantum states for the Hamiltonian operator and parametric quantum gates with associated parameters, by using a VQE method, the method comprising: providing the Hamiltonian operator in an orbital basis and iteratively, until a predefined stopping criterion is satisfied: (i) applying the VQE method to find optimized values for the parameters that yield an intermediate optimal quantum state which minimizes the energy of the Hamiltonian operator, (ii) computing a one particle reduced density matrix (1-RDM) based on the intermediate optimal quantum state, (iii) determining an updated orbital basis in which the 1-RDM is diagonal, and an associated transformation matrix, and (iv) modifying the Hamiltonian operator with the transformation matrix; and then returning, as the optimal quantum state the intermediate optimal quantu