Just in Time Compilation for Quantum Devices

Xanadu’s mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. Our company was
founded in 2016, and has grown to approximately 200 employees today, with headquarters in Toronto, Canada. Xanadu
develops the full stack of quantum computing (QC) technology: theory, hardware, cloud service, software and applications.
This project is in Xanadu’s Software team, who develop and maintain the open-source PennyLane toolkit.
Current software is capable of compiling and optimizing small circuits for today’s QC hardware. Meanwhile, the industry is
working towards the construction of much larger QCs which will be capable of running full error-correction and applications
that are far beyond the reach of today’s systems. Current compilers are not able to compile codes of interest for those future
hardware systems or simulators, and Xanadu has launched the Catalyst compiler specifically targeting this domain. There
are many unanswered questions about how to best compile large-scale quantum programs onto large-scale hardware, and
this project will work to address some of them, as part of the larger Xanadu team developing Catalyst.
Xanadu anticipates significant near-term benefits through the successful completion of this project by improving the
capability and performance of our compiler software, to assert a leading position as the software toolkit of choice for today’s
researchers and future generations of QC users.

Faculty Supervisor:

Olivia Di Matteo

Student:

Partner:

Xanadu

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program: