On Decision Support for Quantum Application Developers: Categorization, Comparison, and Analysis of Existing Technologies.

Quantum computers have been significantly advanced in recent years. Offered as cloud services, quantum computers have become accessible to a broad range of users. Along with the physical advances, the landscape of technologies supporting quantum application development has also grown rapidly in recent years. However, there is a variety of tools, services, and techniques available for the development of quantum applications, and which ones are best suited for a particular use case depends, among other things, on the quantum algorithm and quantum hardware. Thus, their selection is a manual and cumbersome process. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a categorization and a taxonomy of available tools, services, and techniques for quantum application development to enable their analysis and comparison. Based on that we further present a comparison framework to support quantum application developers in their decision for certain technologies.