New language helps quantum coders build killer apps: Quipper is based on a classical programming language called Haskell, which is particularly suited to programming for physics applications. What Selinger's team has done is to customise it to deal with qubits.
They have also produced a library of Quipper code to carry out seven existing quantum algorithms, including an algorithm for estimating the ground-state energy of molecules...
The team made their estimates based on various existing forms of quantum hardware, including devices that use ion traps and photons. However, they did not include the only quantum computer in the market today, the D-wave computer. It uses a novel approach called adiabatic quantum computing and so is not currently compatible with Quipper.
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