Tools

Open-Source Quantum Software Projects
There is a curated list of open-source quantum software projects available on GitHub maintained by the Quantum Open Source Foundation. It is organized by type of software and the language the tool was written in and provides links to the location of the tool.  The list contains many of the tools listed below, but has even more including experimental, fun, and abandoned projects.

There is also an overview article that provides a comparison of characteristics such as documentation, discussion channels, issue tracking, version control, licenses, automated test suites, etc. in various open source quantum computing software tools that you can find on the PLOS web site here.

Microsoft Quantum Development Kit
Microsoft has released a preview version of their Quantum Development Kit that appears to supercede their earlier LIQUi|> software. This kit features a newly named quantum programming language called Q#, integration with their Visual Studio development environment, simulators that run on either a local system or their powerful Azure cloud platform, and rich libraries and code samples that can be used as building blocks.  You can down this software here.

IBM Quantum Experience
IBM has put an experimental 5 qubit gate-level quantum processor on the web and is allowing members of the public to apply to get access to it.   At the IBM Quantum Experience website there are four modules; a short tutorial that explains the basics of quantum computation and instructions on how to use it, a quantum composer that allows one to configure quantum gates for the qubits, a simulator which allows one to simulate their configuration before running it on the actual machine, and finally access to the machine itself which allows one to run their configuration and view the results.   You can access the IBM Quantum Experience website here and you can also see my “First Looks” review of it here.  IBM has also released an associated software API called QISKIT that can be used with the IBM Quantum Experience and you can access it on GitHub here.

Rigetti Forest and Cloud Computing Services (QCS)
The Rigetti Forest suite consists of a quantum instruction language called Quil, an open source Python library for construction Quil programs called pyQuil, a library of quantum programs called Grove, and a simulation environment called QVM standing for Quantum Virtual Machine.  pyQuil and Grove are open source programs available on GitHub. You can access the Forest home page which contains documentation, GitHub links and other information.  QCS provides a virtual classical computing environment that is co-located with the Rigetti quantum hardware.  It comes pre-configured with Rigetti’s Forest SDK and provides a single access point to their QVM and QPU backends.

CAS-Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory – Superconducting Quantum Computer
The CAS-Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory is providing access to a 12-qubit superconducting quantum computing, the “Jiuzhang” optical quantum computer prototype and a larger superconducting quantum computer coming soon. The hardware systems are available through an online interface where users can write quantum circuits, remotely execute them, and download the results over the cloud using a graphical user interface.  The website supports running a circuit on both the quantum computer as well as a simulator. The platform currently has over 5000 registered users that includes both scientific researchers and others interested in quantum technology. You can view a video demo showing usage of the system here and access the sign-up page to get on the system here.

ProjectQ
ProjectQ is an open-source software framework for quantum computing implemented in Python. It allows users to implement their quantum programs in Python using a powerful and intuitive syntax. ProjectQ can then translate these programs to any type of back-end, be it a simulator run on a classical computer or an actual quantum chip including the IBM Quantum Experience platform.   Other hardware platforms will be supported in the future.  Links to all the code and documentation as well as well as a library called FermiLib to analyze fermionic quantum simulation problems can be found at the ProjectQ web site here.

Cirq
Cirq is an open source Python library for writing, manipulating, and optimizing Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits and running them against quantum computers and simulators.  It is currently in an alpha release state and can also be used with OpenFermion-Cirq, a platform for developing quantum algorithms for chemistry problems. Several other software companies are also working with Cirq as early adopters.  Cirq is being promoted by members of the Google AI Quantum Team, but it is not an official Google product.

CirqProjectQ
CirqProject Q is a port between ProjectQ and Cirq that provides two main functions.  First, it is a ProjectQ backend that converts a ProjectQ algorithm to a cirq.Circuit.  And second, it can decompose ProjectQ common gates to native Xmon gates that can be used to simulate a Google quantum computer with ProjectQ.

PennyLane and Strawberry Fields from Xanadu
Xanadu provides two different software products for programming quantum computers.  The first is called PennyLane and is a cross-platform Python library for quantum machine learning, automatic differentiation, and optimization of hybrid quantum-classical computations. PennyLane is interesting because it not only supports Xanadu’s continuous various photonic technology, but it also has plug-ins to support gate based platforms including ProjectQ and IBM’s Qiskit. The second product is called Strawberry Fields and is a full-stack Python library for designing, simulating, and optimizing continuous variable (CV) quantum optical circuits such as the quantum hardware that Xanadu is developing.

Munich Quantum Toolkit
The Munich Quantum Toolkit (MQT) is a collection of design automation tools and software for quantum computing developed at the Chair for Design Automation at the Technical University of Munich. Their overarching objective is to provide solutions for design tasks across the entire quantum software stack. This entails high-level support for end users in realizing their Applications as well as efficient methods for the Simulation, Compilation, and Verification of quantum circuits. Reaching towards the hardware level, we also consider Quantum Error Correction tools and Physical Design considerations. In all these tools they try to utilize Data Structures and Core Methods facilitating the efficient handling of quantum computations. For a comprehensive visual depiction of the MQT tools, we invite you to download the MQT Flyer. All of the developed tools are available as open source and are hosted on GitHub.

Open Controls from Q-CTRL
Q-CTRL Open Controls is an open-source Python package that makes it easy to create and deploy established error-robust quantum control protocols from the open literature. The aim of the package is to be the most comprehensive library of published and tested quantum control techniques developed by the community, with easy to use export functions allowing users to deploy these controls on custom quantum hardware, publicly available quantum cloud computers or the Q-CTRL product suite.

Metriq
Metriq is a service created by the Unitary Fund that allows users to post in a common place the results of various benchmark tests. A user will submit an entry into the Metriq data base that includes the test conditions, results, and references to any technical papers that describes the benchmark test in more detail. Metriq can then make it available for viewing and can show results organized by Tasks, Methods, Platforms, or Tags to allow viewers to compare or download a spreadsheet that shows the various results.

Covalent
Covalent is an open-source workflow orchestration platform designed to help users manage and execute tasks on high performance and quantum computing resources. Covalent is a cross-platform, cross-language Python based tool and includes a browser-based user interface to visualize, monitor and reproduce workflows across a wide spectrum of hardware resources. Covalent is developed and maintained by the team at Agnostiq. More information is available at www.covalent.xyz or on the GitHub site at https://github.com/AgnostiqHQ/covalent

Quantify
Quantify is an open-source, hardware agnostic experimental framework professionally maintained by QuTech spin-outs Qblox and Orange Quantum Systems. It is a python-based, high-level data acquisition platform focused on providing all the necessary tools for quantum computing experiments. It is built on top of QCoDeS, is device-agnostic, and is the successor of the extensively tested PyQED measurement environment. It consists of two modules. Quantify-Core is a data acquisition platform for executing physics experiments and Quantify-Scheduler is an open-source hybrid scheduler that combines pulse-level and gate-level control of qubits. A new website has been established for the research community to collaborate and add functionality to the software at https://quantify-os.gitlab.io/.

Intel Quantum Simulator
The Intel® Quantum Simulator, formerly known as qHiPSTER, is an open source single node or distributed high-performance implementation of a quantum simulator that can simulate general single-qubit gates and two-qubit controlled gates. The Intel Quantum Simulator, which has been used to simulate algorithms of more than 40 qubits, is targeted at algorithm developers who wish to test their software in simulation.  An arXiv paper describing it is located here and the GitHub repository for it is here.

Perceval
Perceval is an open source quantum photonic development toolkit developed by Quandela and dedicated to a broad range of end- users. It enables users to visualize and understand the inner workings of an optical Quantum Computer and simulate it too. Perceval provides tools for composing circuits from linear optical components, defining single-photon sources, manipulating Fock states, running simulations, reproducing published experimental papers and experimenting with a new generation of quantum algorithms. It aims to be a companion tool for developing photonic circuits – for simulating and optimizing their design, modelling both the ideal and realistic behaviors, and proposing a normalized interface to control them through the concept of backends. Additional information about Perceval is available on a web page here, an arXiv preprint paper here, an article on Medium here, and the code located on GitHub here.

Mitiq
Mitiq is an open-source toolkit for implementing error mitigation techniques on most current intermediate-scale quantum computers. It is developed by Unitary Fund with help from the broad quantum software community. Mitiq is compatible with quantum programs written for IBM Q’s Qiskit, Google’s Cirq, Rigetti’s PyQuil, and basically any other quantum circuit formalism thanks to conversions to OpenQASM. Researchers can mitigate their circuit by running it on noisy simulators or any real device. With Mitiq, it is possible to implement zero-noise extrapolation techniques, which can reduce errors integrating quantum circuit sampling with classical inference. The Github Library is available here, the documentation here,  and the white paper here.

Qrisp
Qrisp is a high-level programming language for creating and compiling quantum algorithms. Its structured programming model enables scalable development and maintenance. Key features include typed quantum variables, automatic uncomputation, modularity, arithmetic, compatibility, and a high performance simulator.

The Berkeley Quantum Synthesis Toolkit (BQSKit) is an optimizing quantum compiler and research vehicle that combines ideas from several projects at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory into an easily accessible and quickly extensible software suite. A key goal of this software is to provide highly optimized compilations that minimize circuit depth in comparison to other compilers such as the ones included in IBM’s Qiskit. A web page describing it can be found here and the GitHub repository can be found here.

QCircuits
QCircuits is a quantum circuit simulation Python library designed to be easy for students to learn to use. It simulates the operation of small-scale quantum computers, based on the quantum circuit model. It uses type (d, 0) and type (d, d) tensors to represent state vectors for and operators on d-qubit systems, rather than using straight vectors and matrices produced by Kronecker products, as is more typical.  The GitHub library is available here and full documentation is available here.

Yao
Yao is an extensible, efficient open-source framework for quantum algorithm design. Yao features generic and differentiable programming of quantum circuits. It achieves state-of-the-art performance in simulating small to intermediate sized quantum circuits that are relevant to near-term applications. It is written in the Julia language and provides very competitive performance when compared to other software platforms, at least for simulations in the 5-25 qubit range. For more information on Yao, you can view the website here, the GitHub repository here, the benchmarking comparison report here, and an arXiv paper that provides a full summary here.

Silq
Silq is a new high level quantum programming language developed by ETH Zurich. The intent is do provide a language that enables code that is shorter and simpler, less error prone, and more intuitive that existing lower level programming languages. The developers indicate that this will provide programs with much fewer lines of code than other programming languages; on average -46% versus Q# and -38% versus Quipper. A key feature is that it provides for automatic uncomputation of temporary values. This is more complicated than resetting a temporary classical value because the temporary qubits are entangled with other qubits and resetting it by measuring it can have some unintended consequences.  For now, Silq does not generate code for any existing hardware backend and only supports its own simulator. But we expect this to change as the software is further developed.  The Silq home page can be found here, the GitHub page can be found here, and a press release describing it can be found here.

Paddle Quantum
Paddle Quantum is a quantum machine learning tool set developed based on Baidu’s flying paddle. It supports the construction and training of quantum neural networks and provides easy-to-use quantum machine learning development kits for quantum optimization, quantum chemistry and other cutting-edge quantum application tool sets. This makes Baidu Flying Paddle the first and only deep learning framework in China that supports quantum machine learning. A blog article about Paddle Quantum can be found here.

Tequila
Tequila is an Extensible Quantum Information and Learning Architecture where the main goal is to simplify and accelerate the implementation of new ideas for quantum algorithms. It operates on abstract data structures allowing the formulation, combination, automatic differentiation and optimization of generalized objectives. Tequila can execute the underlying quantum expectation values on state of the art simulators as well as on real quantum devices. It currently supports the following backends: Qulacs, Qiskit, Cirq, and PyQuil.

Qulacs
Qulacs is a python/C++ library developed at Kyoto University and maintained by QunaSys for fast simulation of large, noisy, or parametric quantum circuits. They provide a graph on the GitHub site that shows Qulacs has better performance than Cirq, ProjectQ, pyQuil, Q#, Qiskit Terra, and QuPy due to the C/C++ backend. (At least, at the time these were tested in October 2018).  Additional documentation is available on the qulacs.org site.

staq
staq is a modern C++17 library for the synthesis, transformation, optimization and compilation of quantum circuits. It is usable either through the provided binary tools, or as a header-only library that can be included to provide direct support for parsing & manipulating circuits written in the openQASM circuit description language. After processing, staq can output its results in either the openQASM, Quil, ProjectQ, Q# or Cirq formats.

Bayesforge
Bayesforge is a Linux machine image that curates the very best open source software for the data scientist who needs advanced analytical tools, as well as for quantum computing and computational mathematics practitioners who seek to work with one of the major QC frameworks. The image combines common machine learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch and PyMC, with open source QC software from D-Wave, Rigetti, the IBM Quantum Experience, Google’s quantum computing language Cirq, as well as other advanced QC frameworks. Bayesforge also allows one to create Jupyter Notebooks in Python, R and Octave and is available as a docker image on the Amazon cloud and also available on the Tencent cloud.

Blueqat
Blueqat is a Python based software framework for universal quantum computing designed for both professionals and beginners. It is also designed to connect the Blueqat backend to the Nvidia CUDA based universal model simulator. Blueqat includes popular simulation algorithms like VQE and QAOE that are easy to use with just for a simple command. It also contains a function to convert quantum annealing QUBO/Ising model problems to Pauli operator simulations that can be run on universal gate model platforms.

Quantum Programming Studio
The Quantum Programming Studio is a web based graphical user interface designed to allow users to construct quantum algorithms and obtain results by simulating directly in browser or by executing on real quantum computers. Circuit can be exported to multiple quantum programming languages and can be executed on various simulators and quantum computers including the Rigetti QCS and IBM Qiskit platforms.

Atos/SFTC Hartree Centre – Quantum Learning as a Service (QLaaS)
Atos is teaming up with the UK’s Science & Technology Facilities Council (SFTC) Hartree Centre to offer cloud access to the Atos Quantum Learning Machine.  This is a high performance classically based simulator that can simulate up to 38 qubits and can include quantum noise models to understand how a program would run on an actual quantum machine.  Their tools provide easy quantum programming through python HL Atos Quantum Assembler (AQASM), and quantum libraries such as Jupyter notebooks. Additional details can be found on an Atos web page here and their QLaaS brochure here.

Quantum User Interface (QUI)
The University of Melbourne has developed an intuitive programming and simulation environment called QUI which is designed to enable users to visualize and understand the inner workings of a quantum computer. It has a very easy-to-use interface that allows a user to drag-and-drop quantum gates for creating a circuit. One of the key features of the program is its ability to display visualizations of the quantum computer’s state at every stage in the program.  The program appears to support up to five qubits, has very good graphics and allows a user to see results using Bloch spheres, tables, and probability graphs.  QUI is hosted on a remote cluster of servers at the university and is openly available to anyone who registers to be a user.

Quirk
Quirk is a drag-and-drop simulator that runs in your web browser. It continuously re-simulates as you edit the circuit, providing immediate feedback. It is very good at small-scale iterative experimentation and provides excellent, intuitive graphics for a maximum of 16 qubits.

Qibo
Qibo is an open-source high-level API provided by Qilimanjaro, written in Python and capable of running a quantum algorithms on top of different quantum computers and simulators. It currently supports the IBM real and virtual machines, the Rigetti virtual machine, and Qilimanjaro’s virtual machine called VQMlite.  A key goal is to provide a standard interface that can be applied to many different backends and we expect other backends to be supported in the future. Qibo is currently in an Alpha release.  For more details, you can view Qilimanjaro’s blog posting here.

QuEST
QuEST (Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit) is an open source, hybrid multithreaded and distributed, GPU accelerated simulator of universal quantum circuits. Embodied as a C library, it is designed so that a user’s code can be deployed seamlessly to any platform from a laptop to a supercomputer. QuEST is capable of simulating generic quantum circuits of general one and two-qubit gates and multi-qubit controlled gates, on pure and mixed states, represented as state-vectors and density matrices, and under the presence of decoherence.

XACC
XACC (eXtreme-scale ACCelerator) is a programming model and software framework that enables quantum acceleration within standard or HPC software workflows. XACC follows a coprocessor machine model that is independent of the underlying quantum computing hardware, thereby enabling quantum programs to be defined and executed on a variety of QPUs types through a unified application programming interface. XACC currently supports the IBM, Rigetti, and D-Wave quantum processors, as well as a number of quantum computer simulators.  You can download XACC from GitHub here, read the documentation here and view a paper posted on arXiv here.

Quantum++
Quantum++ is a modern general-purpose multi-threaded quantum computing library written in C++11 and composed solely of header files. The library is not restricted to qubit systems or specific quantum information processing tasks, being capable of simulating arbitrary quantum processes. The main design factors taken in consideration were the ease of use, portability, and performance. The library’s simulation capabilities are only restricted by the amount of available physical memory. On a typical machine (Intel i5 8Gb RAM) Quantum++ can successfully simulate the evolution of 25 qubits in a pure state or of 12 qubits in a mixed state reasonably fast.

Quantum Inspire
Quantum Inspire (QI) is a quantum computing platform designed and built by QuTech. The goal of Quantum Inspire is to provide users access to various technologies to perform quantum computations and learn insights into the principles of quantum computing. It has a variety of ways for users to program quantum algorithms, execute these algorithms and examine the results including a graphical interface to program in QASM (Quantum Assembly Language) and visualize operations in circuit diagrams. With the QI Editor non-quantum experts can learn writing quantum algorithms with support of automatic bug identification and auto complete.  Quantum Inspire supports simulations of up to 37 qubits on Cartesius, the Dutch national supercomputer, and has recently implemented an integration with IBM’s Qiskit that enables one to run QI developed programs on IBM’s Qiskit simulators as well as IBM’s quantum hardware.

QUCAT
QUCAT stands for QUantum Circuit Analyzer Tool. This open source Python library provides standard analysis tools for superconducting electronic circuits, built around at least one Josephson junction. A user will first build a circuit programmatically or using the graphical user interface. Working in the basis of normal modes, one can then compute normal mode frequencies, dissipation rates, anharmonicities, and cross-Kerr couplings. These normal modes can also be visualized graphically. Finally, one can compute the Hamiltonian of the circuit, for further processing in QuTiP.

QuTiP: Quantum Toolbox in Python
QuTiP is open-source software for simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems. The QuTiP library depends on the excellent Numpy, Scipy and Cython numerical packages. In addition, graphical output is provided by Matplotlib QuTiP aims to provide user-friendly and efficient numerical simulations of a wide variety of Hamiltonians, including those with arbitrary time-dependence, commonly found in a wide range of physics applications such as quantum optics, trapped ions, superconducting circuits, and quantum nanomechanical resonators. QuTiP is freely available for use and/or modification on all major platforms such as Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. Being free of any licensing fees, QuTiP is ideal for exploring quantum mechanics and dynamics in the classroom.

OpenFermion
OpenFermion is an open source chemistry package for quantum computers.  It can be used as a tool for generating and compiling physics equations which describe chemical and material systems into representations which can be interpreted by a quantum computer. The most effective quantum algorithms for these problems build upon and extend the power of classical chemistry packages such as Psi4 and PySCF used and developed by research chemists across government, industry and academia. The software includes several plug-ins to run on these packages and also is able to run on the Rigetti Forest and ProjectQ frameworks to run on a variety of different quantum computers.  You can download the software from GitHub here.

TensorFlow Quantum
TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ) is a quantum machine learning library for rapid prototyping of hybrid quantum-classical ML models provided by Google. TensorFlow Quantum focuses on quantum data and building hybrid quantum-classical models. It integrates quantum computing algorithms and logic designed in Cirq, and provides quantum computing primitives compatible with existing TensorFlow APIs, along with high-performance quantum circuit simulators.

Quipper
Quipper is a scalable functional programming language for quantum computing based on Quantum Lambda Calculus. Quipper is based on a classical programming language called Haskell, which is particularly suited to programming for physics applications. It provides a high-level circuit description language that includes gate-by-gate descriptions of circuit fragments, as well as powerful operators for assembling and manipulating circuits. The Quipper distribution libraries for quantum integer and fixed-point arithmetic, Quantum Fourier transform, an efficient Qram implementation, simulation of pseudo-classical circuits, Stabilizer circuits, and arbitrary circuits, exact and approximate decomposition of circuits into specific gate sets and other quantum algorithms.

QX Quantum Computing Simulator
The QX Simulator is a universal quantum computer simulator developed at QuTech. The QX allows quantum algorithm designers to simulate the execution of their quantum circuits on a quantum computer. The simulator defines a low-level quantum assembly language namely Quantum Code which allows the users to describe their circuits in a simple textual source code file. The source code file is then used as the input of the simulator which executes its content.

Quantum Algorithm Zoo
Stephen Jordan from NIST has cataloged dozens of different algorithms that could theoretically offer substantial speedup when run on a quantum computer.   Each algorithm is described in a single paragraph that also includes an estimate of the speedup and links to references and technical papers that described the algorithm in more detail.   The link to this comprehensive catalog is here.

Error Correction Zoo
The Error Correction Zoo was created to categorize and to organize known classical and quantum error-correction schemes. It is inspired by other similar zoos, including the complexity zoo, the quantum algorithm zoo, the quantum protocol zoo, and the qubit zoo. Complementing popular coding theory databases such as Code Tables and MinT, the Error Correction Zoo provides succinct pedagogical descriptions as well as relations and hierarchies among different codes.

ScaffCC
ScaffCC is a compiler and scheduler for the Scaffold programing language. It is written using the LLVM open-source infrastructure for the purpose of writing and analyzing code for quantum computing applications. It enables users to compile quantum applications written in Scaffold to a low-level quantum assembly format (QASM), apply error correction, and generate time and area metrics. ScaffCC is written to be scalable up to problem sizes where quantum algorithms outperform classical ones, and provides valuable insight into the overheads involved and possible optimizations for a realistic implementation on a future quantum device.  ScaffCC includes one of the most extensive quantum application benchmark suites and the beta release can be found on GitHub here.

TriQ
TriQ is the backend compiler for the Scaffold quantum programming language. TriQ takes two inputs: 1) a gate sequence produced by ScaffCC and 2) qubit connectivity and calibration data for the target machine. It compiles the program gate sequence by choosing a good initial placement of the program qubits on the hardware qubits, reducing communication, and by applying gate optimization techniques. It has a flexible architecture that can support multiple platforms and generates optimized quantum assembly code for both superconducting and ion trap quantum computers. A technical paper that describes TriQ in more detail and its use to compare seven different quantum computers can be found in a recently published paper titled Full-Stack, Real-System Quantum Computer Studies: Architectural Comparisons and Design Insights.

Qbsolv from D-Wave
D-Wave has released a tool that takes large Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems and partitions them into smaller sub-QUBOs.   The sub-QUBOs are sized to fit into the capacity and topological constraints of the D-Wave quantum processor.  The sub-QUBOs can also be solved classically using a tabu search algorithm built into the Qbsolv.   Since the D-Wave processor is currently limited to 1000 qubits moving to 2000 qubits later in 2017, this program helps users tackle problems that are many times larger than would fit in a single D-Wave quantum processor.   D-Wave has made this software open source so that users can modify it for their own needs.   The software along with source code and a technical manual are available from GitHub here.

Quantum Computing Playground
Quantum Computing Playground was developed in 2014 by a group of Google engineers as a browser-based WebGL Chrome Experiment. It features a GPU-accelerated gate level quantum computer with a simple IDE interface, and its own scripting language with debugging and 3D quantum state visualization features. Quantum Computing Playground can efficiently simulate quantum registers up to 22 qubits, run Grover’s and Shor’s algorithms, and has a variety of quantum gates built into the scripting language itself.    You can access this program by clicking here but it does assume that the user is already familiar with quantum computers and programming techniques.    There is a Help page that provides some documentation and a Step-by-step Demo button that gives you a quick video demo of how to use it.   The web page strongly recommends that you run Quantum Playground with the Google Chrome browser.

Microsoft LIQUi|>
Microsoft has released a software architecture and tool suite for quantum computing.  This tool suite is available without charge and it includes a programming language, optimization and scheduling algorithms, and quantum simulators.   The tool is called LIQUi|> which stands for Language-Integrated Quantum Operations (and yes, the last two characters are the ket symbol).   LIQUi|> can be used to translate a quantum algorithm written in the form of a high-level program into the low-level machine instructions for a quantum device.   Microsoft has this overview Help page that describes the basic functionality of LIQUi|>.    The overview web page also contains an excellent video tutorial that shows you how to install and operate LIQUi|>.    The software suite itself can be downloaded from the GitHub site here.  Although LIQUi|> is still available on GitHub, it appears to have been superseded by the Microsoft Quantum Development kit mentioned above.

Quantum in the Cloud
The University of Bristol will make available access to a four qubit photonic quantum computer.   You can start by using their web interface available here to create a configuration, simulate your configuration and then run the configuration on their four qubit photonic chip.    The simulator is available to everyone, but in order to get access to the actual hardware you will need to request an Access Token.   Once it is granted, you can then run your configuration on their hardware.    Additional documentation on this tool is available here and here.

Raytheon BBN Open Source Software
Raytheon BBN is make available three open source software programs related to Quantum Computing.   You can access them through the Raytheon BBN gibhub site.

• Qlab – A MATLAB control framework for superconducting qubit systems.
• PySimulator – A python/C++ framework for master equation simluation of qubit systems.
• PyQLab – A python framework for superconducting qubit systems. Includes Quantum Gate Language (QGL) for compactly writing QIP pulse programs.