Q Developer Information

Quantum computing holds the promise of solving some of our planet's biggest challenges - in the areas of environment, agriculture, health, energy, climate, materials science, and more. For some of these problems, classical computing is increasingly challenged as the size of the system grows. When designed to scale, quantum systems will likely have capabilities that exceed those of today's most powerful supercomputers. As the global community of quantum researchers, scientists, engineers, and business leaders collaborate to advance the quantum ecosystem, we expect to see quantum impact accelerate across every industry. The Quantum Development Kit (QDK) is the SDK required to interface with the Azure Quantum service. It is built-in to the Azure Quantum portal, where you can develop programs using the free hosted Jupyter Notebooks. You can also install the QDK locally on your computer to use your own local development environment and work both online and offline with the Azure Quantum service. With the Quantum Development Kit, you can build programs that run on quantum hardware in Azure Quantum.