Q# Blog

Azure Quantum challenge at QCHack 2022: Recap

May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 05/2/22

Mariia Mykhailova

This April we partnered with IonQ and Quantinuum to offer one of the technical challenges at Quantum Coalition Hackathon 2022. Meet the challenge winners and learn about their projects!

Microsoft/IonQ challenge at iQuHACK 2022: Recap

April 18, 2022 Apr 18, 2022 04/18/22

Mariia Mykhailova

This January we partnered with IonQ to offer one of the technical challenges at iQuHACK – MIT’s annual quantum hackathon. Meet the challenge winners and learn about their projects!

Testing large quantum algorithms using sparse simulation

April 6, 2022 Apr 6, 2022 04/6/22

Mathias Soeken

This blog post introduces the sparse simulator. Learn how it works and how it may help you with testing and debugging of quantum algorithms.

Introducing Q# Lambda Expressions

March 30, 2022 Mar 30, 2022 03/30/22

Scott Carda

Here we introduce the new Q# lambda expressions language feature and give some examples of its usage.

Announcing Azure Quantum challenge at QCHack 2022

March 24, 2022 Mar 24, 2022 03/24/22

Mariia Mykhailova

We are excited to announce that Microsoft along with our partners IonQ and Quantinuum will join Quantum Coalition Hack, hosted during the week of April 4-10! Learn more about the challenge we'll be offering and the best ways to prepare for it.

Implementing DevOps for Quantum Applications

March 22, 2022 Mar 22, 2022 03/22/22

Holger Sirtl

This blog post illustrates how CI/CD-pipelines can be built for hybrid quantum apps with tools from the Quantum Development Kit (QDK), GitHub Actions and various Azure services. These cover the full app lifecycle: from app building, automated testing, resource estimating up to provisioning the target environment and deployment of the app.

Explore Quantum Hardware for Free with Azure Quantum

February 3, 2022 Feb 3, 2022 02/3/22

Mike Blouin

Learn how to use the $500 Azure Quantum credits to experiment with our partners' quantum hardware.

Introducing the Q# Formatter

December 16, 2021 Dec 16, 2021 12/16/21

Scott Carda

Here we introduce the Q# Formatter, a tool to help keep your Q# code up to date with the latest Q# syntax.

A quantum circuit logical puzzle

December 15, 2021 Dec 15, 2021 12/15/21

Mariia Mykhailova

This blog offers you a quantum logical puzzle: you are given the outline of a simple quantum circuit and a set of clues about it, and you have to complete the circuit based on the clues.

Visualizing resource estimates with the trace simulator and quantum-viz.js

December 14, 2021 Dec 14, 2021 12/14/21

Mathias Soeken

Estimating the resources and visualizing execution traces of Q# programs are useful tasks. The trace simulator from the QDK and quantum-viz.js Javascript library help to perform those. In this blog post, we customize the trace simulator to output a circuit with hierarchy and resource information to be displayed with quantum-viz.js. The ...