Comparison of container-based platforms for quantum computing simulation

Quantum Computing allows for substantial speed-ups e.g. for integer factorization or database search, compared to conventional computation. However, since real quantum computers are an emerging technology, a significant amount of research in this domain still relies on simulations of quantum computations on conventional machines. This paper proposes a containerized environment to simulate quantum circuits, making this environment quick and easy to share within research teams. Also test the environment implementing an arithmetic circuit (Vedral’s adder) and compares the performance of two of the current more used environments: IBM QISKit and Google Cirq.