Execute the quantum circuits on actual quantum hardware using Qiskit runtime primitives. Perform post-processing using classical computation to return the results in a classical format.

IBM notes that since its debut, Qiskit has become the most popular quantum software kit across the industry with more than 600,000 users who have executed more than 3 billion quantum circuits to date.

Qiskit SDK v1.0 brings notable improvements in performance and usability, streamlining the process of building and transpiling quantum circuits.

Quantum programs: blending classical processors and quantum circuits Classical computing remains a fundamental part of Qiskit, and of any quantum operation carried out over the cloud.

In fact, with Qiskit Runtime IBM was able to demonstrate a 120x speed-up on a variational quantum Eigensolver algorithm compared to the previous circuit API model.

In addition to new quantum systems, IBM has sped execution performance by 120x using Qiskit Runtime, IBM’s containerized quantum computing service and programming model, from previous experiments.