Qiskit is a quantum computing software development kit used for designing, simulating, and executing quantum circuits on physical hardware and simulators. It functions as a quantum algorithm framework, a circuit simulator, and a vendor-agnostic hardware interface for dispatching workloads across diverse providers. The project features a quantum circuit transpiler that optimizes abstract designs to match the specific basis gates and qubit connectivity of target hardware. It employs a pass-based transpilation pipeline and symbolic instruction translation to convert high-level circuits into hard
Pythonic tool for orchestrating machine-learning/high performance/quantum-computing workflows in heterogeneous compute environments.