As outlined in the OpenQASM governance document, the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) will, from time to time, elect to create Working Groups (WG) to study issues. The TSC will appoint a Contributor as Chair for each WG. A WG shall submit a language RFC or pull request to the OpenQASM specification for review by the TSC at an agreed upon date. A WG will be automatically disbanded upon acceptance or (final) rejection of the RFC/pull request.
Objective: Recommend what range of generics / parameterised circuit family functionality (beyond angle parameters) would be suitable for inclusion in OpenQASM, and what syntax should be used for it.
Chair: Niel de Beaudrap
Members: Colm Ryan, Andrew Cross, Ali Javadi, Blake Johnson, Matthew Amy
Note: this working group will begin working in September 2021.
Objective:
Chair: Li Chen
Members: Hiroshi Horii, Michael Healy, Luciano Bello, Jeff Heckey, Yunong Shi, Steven Heidel
Objective: Define type hierarchy and implicit casting rules.
Questions:
- Any implicit casts?
- What explicit casts are allowed?
- Registers vs arrays?
- Can you index into integers and get bit value?
- Is an int equivalent to an array of bits?
Chair: Michael Healy (IBM Quantum)
Members: Niel de Beaudrap, Hiroshi Horii, Blake Johnson, Colm Ryan, Luciano Bello, Prasahnt Sivarajah, Yunong Shi, Jake Lishman
Objective: Define a pulse grammar "openpulse" to be used for microcoding of gate instructions with
OpenQASM defcal's.
Chair: Thomas Alexander (IBM Quantum)
Members: Blake Johnson, Colm Ryan, Derek Bolt, Peter Karalekas, Lauren Capelluto, Michael Healy, Prasahnt Sivarajah, Yunong Shi, Steven Heidel