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Quantum Factory Method: A Software Engineering Approach to Deal with Incompatibilities in Quantum Libraries

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The current context of Quantum Computing and its available technologies present an extensive variety of tools and lack of methodologies, leading to incompatibilities across platforms, which end up as inconsistencies in the developed solutions. We propose a design called Quantum Factory Method, based on software engineering and design patterns, to solve these issues by integrating different quantum platforms in the same development. We provide example implementations whose results prove the suitability of the design in different cases, and conclude on how this approach can be expanded for future work.

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This work has been supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 under project NEASQC (grant agreement No 951821) and by the Xunta de Galicia (grant ED431C 2022/44) with the European Union ERDF funds and Centro de Investigación de Galicia “CITIC”, funded by Xunta de Galicia and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund-Galicia 2014–2020 Program, grant ED431G 2019/01). DAE received funding from the project ED431H 2020/10 of Xunta de Galicia.

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  1. Universidade da Coruña, CITIC, Campus de Elviña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Samuel Magaz-Romero, Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey, Diego Alvarez-Estevez & Vicente Moret-Bonillo

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  1. Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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  2. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Clélia de Mulatier

  3. AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

    Maciej Paszynski

  4. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya

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Magaz-Romero, S., Mosqueira-Rey, E., Alvarez-Estevez, D., Moret-Bonillo, V. (2023). Quantum Factory Method: A Software Engineering Approach to Deal with Incompatibilities in Quantum Libraries. In: Mikyška, J., de Mulatier, C., Paszynski, M., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2023. ICCS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36030-5_6

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