Reproducible Builds for Quantum Computing

Supplemental material for the paper "Reproducible Builds for Quantum Computing".

Jupyter notebooks

The notebooks directory contains Jupyter notebooks with more technical details of all the examples described in Sections 6 and 7. You can run these notebooks on the cloud here using Binder.

Alternatively, if you prefer to run them locally on your computer, we recommend creating a Python virtual enviroment and starting Jupyter lab there.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/cryptohslu/reproducible-builds-quantum-computing.git
cd reproducible-builds-quantum-computing
python -v venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
venv/bin/jupyter-lab

Tip

Depending on your operating system, you might need to install some additional dependencies to make everything work locally. On Debian, use:

sudo apt install graphviz libarchive-dev xxd

Qiskit transpilation plugins

The qiskit_plugins directory contains the ready-to-use Qiskit transpilation plugins implementing the examples from Section 6. These are already installed in your Python virtual environment if you run the previous commands. If you want to install them on a different virtual environment the easiest way to install them is using pip to fetch the latest versions from PyPI.

pip install qiskit-leaky-layout qiskit-leaky-init qiskit-leaky-scheduling

Alternatively, you can also install them locally. First, activate the Python virtual environment you want to use and then run:

cd qiskit_plugins/qiskit-leaky-layout && pip install .
cd ../qiskit-leaky-init && pip install .
cd ../qiskit-leaky-scheduling && pip install .

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation Practice-to-Science Grant No 199084.

Citation

@misc{arXiv2510.02251,
  title={Reproducible Builds for Quantum Computing},
  author={Iyán Méndez Veiga and Esther Hänggi},
  year={2025},
  eprint={2510.02251},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={quant-ph},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02251},
}