For those who are either new to or currently researching in the field of quantum compilers, I will be regularly updating resources such as papers categorised by subtopics, open-source code, learning materials(currently planning to create it myself) on quantum compilers, as well as my own personal research paper reviews. I'm still a first-year PhD student, so I have many shortcomings. Feel free to provide any feedback on mistakes.
- Survey papers
- Part A: Compilation Flow — From Algorithm to Pulse
- Part B: Quantum Compiler Ecosystem
- Part C: Quantum Compiler Niche Fields
- Part D: Conference and Journal
- Quantum Compilation Process: A Survey - F. Javier Cardama, Jorge Vázquez-Pérez, Tomás F. Pena, Juan C. Pichel & Andrés Gómez, 2025
- Quantum Compiler Design for Qubit Mapping and Routing - Chenghong zhu et al., 2025.
- A Comprehensive Review of Quantum Circuit Optimization: Current Trends and Future Directions - Krishnageetha Karuppasamy et al., 2025.
- Quantum Circuit Synthesis and Compilation Optimization: Overview and Prospects - Ge Yan et al., 2024.
- Quantum Compiling - Marco Maronese, Lorenzo Moro, Lorenzo Rocutto, Enrico Prati, 2021
- Programming languages and compiler design for realistic quantum hardware - Frederic T. Chong, Diana Franklin, Margaret Martonosi, Nature, 2017
IR Design & Transpilation Frameworks
- PHOENIX: Pauli-Based High-Level Optimization Engine for Instruction Execution on NISQ Devices - Zhaohui Yang et al., 2025 - GitHub
- LinguaQuanta: Towards a Quantum Transpiler Between OpenQASM and Quipper - Scott Wesley et al., 2024 - GitHub
- QSSA: an SSA-based IR for Quantum computing - Anurudh Peduri, Siddharth Bhat, CC 2022 - GitHub
- QIRO: A Static Single Assignment-based Quantum Program Representation for Optimization - David Ittah et al., 2021 - GitHub
- A MLIR Dialect for Quantum Assembly Languages - Alexander McCaskey, Thien Nguyen, QCE 2021
- ScaffCC: A Framework for Compilation and Analysis of Quantum Computing Programs - Ali JavadiAbhari et al., 2014 - GitHub
Loop & Control-Flow Transforms
- The Limits of Control Flow in Quantum Programming – Charles Yuan et al., OOPSLA, 2023
- Software Pipelining for Quantum Loop Programs – Jingzhe Guo, Mingsheng Ying, IEEE TSE, 2023
- Exploring the Impact of Affine Loop Transformations in Qubit Allocation – Martin Kong, QCS, 2020
Quantum Program Optimization
- SuperstaQ: Deep Optimization of Quantum Program - Campbell et al., QCE 2023 - GitHub
- Paulihedral: a generalized block-wise compiler optimization framework for Quantum simulation kernels - Gushu Li et al., 2021
- Enabling Dataflow Optimization for Quantum Programs - David Ittah et al., 2021
- A Meet-in-the-Middle Algorithm for Fast Synthesis of Depth-Optimal Quantum Circuits - Matthew Amy et al., 2021
- Automated optimization of large quantum circuits with continuous parameters - Yunseong Nam et al., 2017 - GitHub
- A software methodology for compiling quantum programs - Thomas Häner et al., 2016
- Exact synthesis of single-qubit unitaries over Clifford-cyclotomic gate sets - Simon Forest et al., 2015
- Polynomial-Time T-Depth Optimization of Clifford+T Circuits Via Matroid Partitioning - Matthew Amy et al., 2013
- Assertion-Based Optimization of Quantum Programs - Häner, Hoefler, Troyer, OOPSLA 2013
- Repeat-until-Success: Non-Deterministic Decomposition of Single-Qubit Unitaries - Adam Paetznick, Krysta Svore, 2013 - GitHub (sample)
- Circuit for Shor’s Algorithm Using 2n+3 Qubits - Stephane Beauregard, 2002
Circuit Optimisation
- A Resource-Allocating Compiler for Lattice Surgery - Alan Robertson, Haowen Gao, Yuval R. Sanders, 2025. - GitHub
- Quantum circuit optimization with AlphaTensor - Francisco J. R. Ruiz, Nature Machine Intelligence, 2025. - GitHub
- Quarl: A Learning-Based Quantum Circuit Optimizer - Zikun Li et al., OOPSLA, 2024. - GitHub
- Machine Learning Optimization of Quantum Circuit Layouts - Alexandru Pale et al., ACM TQC, 2023. - GitHub
- Synthesizing Quantum-Circuit Optimizers - Amanda Xu et al., PLDI, 2023. - GitHub
- Monte Carlo Graph Search for Quantum Circuit Optimization - Bodo Rosenhahn, Tobias J. Osborne, 2023
Hardware Platforms
Superconducting QC
- Selective Excitation of Superconducting Qubits with a Shared Control Line through Pulse Shaping - Ryo Matsuda et al., 2025
- Virtual-Z Gates and Symmetric Gate Compilation - Arian Vezvaee et al., 2025
- Qibosoq: RFSoC Control Software for Self-Hosted Quantum Hardware via QICK - Andrea Pasquale et al., 2025 - GitHub
- CCMap: Hardware-Aware Compilation for Chip-to-Chip Coupler-Connected QPUs - Zefan Du et al., Arxiv, 2025
- Pulse-Based Variational Quantum Optimization and Metalearning in Superconducting Circuits - Yapeng Wang et al., 2024
- Direct Pulse-Level Compilation of Arbitrary Quantum Logic Gates on Superconducting Qutrits - Yujin Cho et al., , Physical Review Applied, 2024
- Sensitivity-Adapted Closed-Loop Optimization for High-Fidelity CZ Gates - Niklas J. Glaser et al., 2024
- Implementing Fast and High-Fidelity Quantum Operations Using Open-Loop Optimal Control - LBNL Collaboration, 2024
- Qibolab: An Open-Source Hybrid Quantum Operating System - Stavros Efthymiou et al., Quantum Journal 2024, GitHub
- Qibocal: An Open-Source Framework for Calibration of Self-Hosted Quantum Devices - Andrea Pasquale et al., 2024 - GitHub
- A Time Optimization Framework for Robust and Low-Latency Quantum Circuits - Eduardo W. Lussi et al., Physical Review Applied, 2024
Ion-Trap QC
- Graph-Based Pulse Representation for Diverse Quantum Control Hardware - Aniket S. Dalvi et al., 2024
- Hybrid discrete-continuous compilation of trapped-ion quantum circuits with deep reinforcement learning - Francesco Preti,. Quantum Journal, 2024
- Automated Generation of Shuttling Sequences for a Linear Segmented Ion Trap Quantum Computer - Jonathan Durandau, Quantum, 2023. GitHub oai_citation:2‡GitHub
- Quantum Circuit Compiler for a Shuttling-Based Trapped Ion Quantum Computer - Fabian Kreppel et al., 2022
- Backend compiler phases for trapped-ion quantum computers - T. Schmale et al., 2022
Neutral-Atom QC
- Pulse Family Optimization for Parametrized Quantum Gates Using Spectral Clustering - Robert de Keijzer et al., Quantum Journal, 2024
- Q-Pilot: Field Programmable Qubit Array Compilation with Flying Ancillas - Hanrui Wang., DAC, 2024.
- Quantum optimization of maximum independent set using Rydberg atom arrays - S. Ebadi et al., Science(Journal), 2022. - [GitHub]
Photonics QC
- OneAdapt: Adaptive Compilation for Resource-Constrained Photonic One-Way Quantum Computing - Hezi Zhang et al., 2025
- A Scalable and Robust Compilation Framework for Emitter-Photonic Quantum Computing - Xiangyu Ren et al., 2025
- OnePerc: A Randomness-aware Compiler for Photonic Quantum Computing - Hezi Zhang et al., 2024
- OneQ: A Compilation Framework for Photonic One-Way Quantum Computation - Hezi Zhang et al., ISCA, 2023
- A Compiler for Universal Photonic Quantum Computers - Felix Zilk et al., QCS, 2022
Compilation Techniques
Circuit Scheduling
- Scheduling of Operations in Quantum Compiler - Toshinari Itoko, Takashi Imamichi, QCE, 2020
- Two-step approach to scheduling quantum circuits - Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, Jongsoo Park, Quantum Sci, 2017
Qubit Mapping & Routing
- S-SYNC: Shuttle & SWAP Co-Optimisation in QCCD - Chenghong Zhu, Xian Wu, Jingbo Wang, Xin Wang, ISCA 2025
- Compiling quantum circuits for dynamically field-programmable neutral atoms array processors - D. B. Tan et al., 2024
- Qubit mapping for reconfigurable atom arrays - B. Tan et al, ICCAD, 2022
- Qubit Mapping and Routing via MaxSAT - Abtin Molavi, Amanda Xu, Martin Diges, Lauren Pick, Swamit Tannu, Aws Albarghouthi, MICRO, 2022
- QuCloud: A New Qubit Mapping Mechanism for Multi-programming Quantum Computing in Cloud Environment - Lei Liu, Xinglei Dou, HPCA, 2021
- Optimal mapping for near-term quantum architectures based on Rydberg atoms - S.Brandhofer et al., ICCAD, 2021
- Time-optimal Qubit mapping - Chi Zhang et al., ASPLOS, 2021
- Not All Qubits Are Created Equal: A Case for Variability-Aware Policies for NISQ-Era Quantum Computers - Swamit S. Tannu, Moinuddin K. Qureshi, ASPLOS, 2019
- Noise-adaptive compiler mappings for noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. - Prakash Murali, Jonathan M. Baker, Ali Javadi Abhari, Frederic T. Chong, Margaret Martonosi, ASPLOS, 2019
- A Synergistic Compilation Workflow for Tackling Crosstalk in Quantum Machines - Fei Hua et al., 2023
- Hybrid Gate-Pulse Model for Variational Quantum Algorithms - Zhiding Liang et al. 2022
- Resource-Efficient Quantum Computing by Breaking Abstractions - Yunong Shi, IEEE Journal, 2020.
- Optimized Quantum Compilation for Near-Term Algorithms with OpenPulse Pranav Gokhale et al, 2020.
- SCIM MILQ: An HPC Quantum Scheduler - Philipp Seitz et al., QCE, 2024 - GitHub
- Qibolab: An Open-Source Hybrid Quantum Operating System - Stavros Efthymiou et al., Quantum Journal, 2024 - GitHub
- Combining Quantum Processors with Real-Time Classical Communication - Almudena Carrera Vazquez et al., Nature, 2024. - GitHub
- Testing and Debugging Quantum Programs: The Road to 2030 — Neilson Carlos Leite Ramalho et al, TOSEM, 2025.
- QuraTest: Automated Testing of Quantum Programs with Complex Input States — Jiaming Ye et al. ASE 23.
- MorphQ: Metamorphic Testing for Quantum Programs — Matteo Paltenghi, Michael Pradel, ICSE 23.
- QuCAT: Quantum Combinatorial Testing Framework — Xinying Wang et al. ASE 23.
- QuSBT: Search-Based Testing of Quantum Programs — Xinying Wang et al, ICSE 22.
- QMutPy: A Mutation Testing Tool for Quantum Algorithms and Applications in Qiskit — E. Fortunato, et al. ASE 22.
- Quito: a coverage-guided test generator for quantum programs — Xinyi Wang et al. (2021). ASE 21.
- Muskit: Mutation Testing for Qiskit Quantum Programs — A. Mendiluze, et al. ASE 21
- Statistical Assertions for Quantum Programs — H.-L. Huang, M. Martonosi, ISCA 19.
- Projection-based runtime assertions for testing and debugging Quantum programs — Gushu Li et al. OOPSLA 2020.
- Assertion-Based Optimization of Quantum Programs — Thomas Häner et al, OOPSLA, 2020
- CoqQ: Foundational Verification of Quantum Programs — L. Zhou, G. Barthe, P.-Y. Strub, J. Liu, M. Ying (2022).
- Twist: Sound Reasoning for Purity and Entanglement in Quantum Programs — C. Yuan, C. McNally, M. Carbin (2022). Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (POPL)
- An Algebraic Method to Fidelity-based Model Checking over Quantum Markov Chains — M. Xu, J. Fu, J. Mei, Y. Deng (2021).
- Quantum Relational Hoare Logic — D. Unruh (2019). Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (POPL)
- ProbReach: Verified Probabilistic Delta-Reachability for Stochastic Hybrid Systems — F. Shmarov, P. Zuliani (2015). (HSCC)
- Formal Verification of Quantum Algorithms Using Quantum Hoare Logic — J. Liu, B. Zhan, S. Wang, S. Ying, T. Liu, Y. Li, M. Ying, N. Zhan (2019). Computer Aided Verification (CAV)
- Quantum relational Hoare logic — J. Liu, B. Zhan, S. Wang, S. Ying, T. Liu, Y. Li, M. Ying, N. Zhan (2019). (POPL)
- QWIRE: A Core Language for Quantum Circuits — J. Paykin, R. Rand, S. Zdancewic (2017). Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (POPL)
- Floyd-Hoare Logic for Quantum Programs — M. Ying (2011). ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
- An Algebra of Quantum Processes — M. Ying, Y. Feng, R. Duan, Z. Ji (2009) (TOCL)
- A Logic for Formal Verification of Quantum Programs — M. Ying, Y. Feng, R. Duan, Z. Ji (2009). Advances in Computer Science – ASIAN 2009 (Springer)
- Towards a Quantum Programming Language — P. Selinger (2004). Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
- Resource-Efficient Context-Aware Dynamical Decoupling Embedding for Arbitrary Large-Scale Quantum Algorithms, Paul Coote et al., PRX Quantum, 2025
- Learning high-accuracy error decoding for quantum processors - Johannes Bausch et al., Nature, 2024
- Error Propagation-Aware Routing: A New Routing Strategy to Improve Success Rates of Quantum Circuits, Lu Fang et al., ICCAD, 2024
- Learning How to Dynamically Decouple, Arefur Rahman et al., arXiv, 2024.
- On the Use of Calibration Data in Error-Aware Compilation Techniques for NISQ Devices, Handy Kurniawan et al., arXiv, 2024.
- TISCC: A Surface Code Compiler and Resource Estimator for Trapped-Ion Processors - Tyler Leblond, Ryan S. Bennink, Justin G. Lietz, and Christopher M. Seck, SC, 2023
- Qubit Mapping and Routing via MaxSAT, Maryam Amiri et al., MICRO, 2022.
- VAQEM: A Variational Approach to Quantum Error Mitigation - Gokul S. Ravi et al., HPCA, 2022
- Exploiting Long-Distance Interactions and Tolerating Atom Loss in Neutral Atom Quantum Architectures - Jonathan M. Baker, et al., ISCA, 2021
- ADAPT: Mitigating Idling Errors in Qubits via Adaptive Dynamical Decoupling - Poulami Das et al., MICRO, 2021
- A Noise-Aware Qubit Mapping Algorithm Evaluated via Qubit Interaction-Graph Criteria - Matthew Steinberg et al., arXiv, 2021.
- TILT: Achieving Higher Fidelity on a Trapped-Ion Linear-Tape Quantum Computing Architecture - Xin-Chuan Wu, Dripto M Debroy, Yongshan Ding, Jonathan M Baker, Yuri Alexeev, Kenneth R Brown, and Frederic T Chong, HPCA, 2020
- Systematic Cross talk Mitigation for Superconducting Qubits via Frequency-Aware Compilation, Yongshan Ding, Pranav Gokhale, Sophia Fuhui Lin, Richard Rines, Thomas Propson, Frederic T. Chong, MICRO, 2020
- Digital Zero-Noise Extrapolation for Quantum Error Mitigation, Tudor Giurgica-Tiron et al., IEEE QCE, 2020
- Near-Optimal Routing of Noisy Quantum States, Kyle Cote et al., SPIE Proc., 2019.
- Not All Qubits Are Created Equal: Variation-Aware Qubit Allocation in NISQ-Era Quantum Computers, Swamit Tannu & Moinuddin Qureshi, ASPLOS, 2019
- Practical Quantum Error Mitigation for Near-Future Applications, Suguru Endo et al., Phys. Rev. X, 2018.
- Error Mitigation for Short-Depth Quantum Circuits, Kristan Temme et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 2017.
- Split Compilation for Security of Quantum Circuits — Abdullah Ash Saki, Aakarshitha Suresh, Rasit Onur Topaloglu, Swaroop Ghosh. ICCAD 2021. 
- A Quantum Circuit Obfuscation Methodology for Security and Privacy — Aakarshitha Suresh, Abdullah Ash Saki, Mahabubul Alam, Rasit Onur Topaloglu, Swaroop Ghosh. HASP @ MICRO 2021. 
- OpaQue: Program Output Obfuscation for Quantum Software Circuits in Quantum Clouds — Tirthak Patel, Aditya Ranjan, Daniel Silver, Harshitta Gandhi, William Cutler, Devesh Tiwari. ICS 2025. 
- TetrisLock: Quantum Circuit Split Compilation with Interlocking Patterns — Qian Wang, Jayden John, Ben Dong, Yuntao Liu. arXiv 2025 (preprint). 
- OPAQUE: Obfuscating Phase in Quantum Circuit Compilation for Efficient IP Protection — Anees Rehman, Vincent Langford, Yuntao Liu. ISQED 2025. 
- Encrypted-state quantum compilation scheme based on quantum circuit obfuscation — Chenyi Zhang, Tao Shang, Xueyi Guo, Yuanjing Zhang. arXiv 2025. 
- Quantum Homomorphic Encryption for Circuits of Low T-gate Complexity — Anne Broadbent, Stacey Jeffery. CRYPTO 2015. 
- Unconditionally Verifiable Blind Quantum Computation — Joseph F. Fitzsimons, Elham Kashefi. Physical Review A, 2017.
- Character Complexity: A Novel Measure for Quantum Circuit Analysis - Daksh Shami, 2024
- QuCT: A Framework for Analyzing Quantum Circuit by Extracting Contextual and Topological Features - Siwei Tan et al., MICRO 2023 - GitHub
- Quantum Vulnerability Analysis to Guide Robust Quantum Computing System Design - Fang Qi et al., 2023
- Topological quantum compilation of two-qubit gates — Parsa Hosseini et al. (2024).
- Topological quantum compilation of metaplectic anyons based on the genetic optimized algorithms — Parsa Hosseini et al. (2025).
- Optimized Topological Quantum Compilation of Three-Qubit Controlled Gates in the Fibonacci Anyon Model — Parsa Hosseini et al. (2023).
- Topological Quantum Gates in Homotopy Type Theory — Guillaume Munch-Madewig et al. (2023).
- Systematic Computation of Braid Generator Matrix in Topological Quantum Computation — Parsa Hosseini et al. (2023).
- Asymptotically Optimal Topological Quantum Compiling — Michael Freedman et al., Mathematical Physics Journal (2013).
- Provably Optimal Quantum Circuits with Mixed-Integer Programming — Yufei Ding et al. (2025).
- Efficient, direct compilation of SU(N) operations into SNAP — Vladislav D. Kurpas et al., Physical Review A, (2023).
- QudCom: Towards Quantum Compilation for Qudit Systems — Sebastian Brandhofer et al. (2023).
- Adaptive Compilation of Multi-Level Quantum Operations — David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur et al. (2022).
- Compilation of Entangling Gates for High-Dimensional Quantum Processors — Manuel G. J. B. A. Cordier et al. (2023).
- MQT Qudits: A Software Framework for Mixed-Dimensional Quantum Computing — Lukas Burgholzer et al. (2024).
- Quantum state obfuscation from classical oracles - J. Bartusek, Z. Brakerski, V. Vaikuntanathan, CCS, 2024
- Obfuscation of pseudo-deterministic quantum circuits - J. Bartusek, F. Kitagawa, R. Nishimaki, ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2023
- Indistinguishability obfuscation of null quantum circuits and applications - J. Bartusek, G. Malavolta, ITCS, 2021
- A quantum circuit obfuscation methodology for security and privacy - A. Suresh, A.A. Saki, M. Alam, R. Onur Topaloglu, S. Ghosh, JETC, 2021
- On quantum obfuscation - G. Alagic, B. Fefferman arXiv (preprint), 2016
- A Generic Measurement-Based Quantum Compilation Pipeline — Nader M. Mohammadizadeh et al. (2023).
- Adaptive Compilation for Resource-Constrained Photonic One-Way Quantum Computing — Florian Reiter et al. (2025).
- A Randomness-aware Compiler for Photonic Quantum Computing — Florian Reiter et al. (2024).
- January - ICCAD CCS
- March - OOPSLA TQC QCE
- April - QCE MICRO
- August - ASPLOS
- September - HPCA QIP
- November - CC ISCA PLDI DAC CGO STOC ICSE
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