ISO/IEC PWI 18963

Information Technology — Quantum Simulation — Taxonomy of quantum simulator architectures and quantum simulation programming ISO/IEC PWI 18963

Scope

This standard defines a taxonomy of quantum simulator architectures and quantum simulation programming. The taxonomy includes the architecture of analog quantum simulators (AQSs) and digital quantum simulators (DQSs). For each of these architectures there are one or more types of quantum processor units (e.g., based on Rydberg interacting qubits, superconducting qubits) with one or more qubit modalities (e.g., based on atoms, ions, electrons, photons) known as quantum objects. The programming of quantum simulations operates according to two approaches: target Hamiltonian (i.e., AQS) and non-native Hamiltonian evolution (i.e., DQS). The mathematical constructs that can be used to describe the time-evolution of a quantum system of interest as well as enabling technologies, and software components are included in the taxonomy.