References

MQT YAQS has a strong foundation in peer‑reviewed research. Many of its built‑in algorithms are based on methods published in scientific journals and conferences.

MQT YAQS is part of the Munich Quantum Toolkit, which is described in [2]. If you want to cite the Munich Quantum Toolkit, please use the following BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{mqt,
  title        = {The {{MQT}} Handbook: {{A}} Summary of Design Automation Tools and Software for Quantum Computing},
  shorttitle   = {{The MQT Handbook}},
  author       = {Wille, Robert and Berent, Lucas and Forster, Tobias and Kunasaikaran, Jagatheesan and Mato, Kevin and Peham, Tom and Quetschlich, Nils and Rovara, Damian and Sander, Aaron and Schmid, Ludwig and Schoenberger, Daniel and Stade, Yannick and Burgholzer, Lukas},
  year         = 2024,
  booktitle    = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW)},
  doi          = {10.1109/QSW62656.2024.00013},
  eprint       = {2405.17543},
  eprinttype   = {arxiv},
  addendum     = {A live version of this document is available at \url{https://mqt.readthedocs.io}}
}

If you use MQT YAQS in your work, we would appreciate if you cited

  • [3] for simulating open analog quantum systems,

  • [4] for quantum circuit (digital) simulation, and

  • [1] for the equivalence checking algorithm.

A full list of references is given below.

[1]

Aaron Sander, Lukas Burgholzer, and Robert Wille. Equivalence checking of quantum circuits via intermediary matrix product operator. Phys. Rev. Res., 7:023261, June 2025. [PDF], doi:10.1103/3q71-y8cf.

[2]

Robert Wille, Lucas Berent, Tobias Forster, Jagatheesan Kunasaikaran, Kevin Mato, Tom Peham, Nils Quetschlich, Damian Rovara, Aaron Sander, Ludwig Schmid, Daniel Schoenberger, Yannick Stade, and Lukas Burgholzer. The MQT handbook: A summary of design automation tools and software for quantum computing. In IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW). 2024. arXiv:2405.17543, doi:10.1109/QSW62656.2024.00013.

[3]

Aaron Sander, Maximilian Fröhlich, Martin Eigel, Jens Eisert, Patrick Gelß, Michael Hintermüller, Richard M. Milbradt, Robert Wille, and Christian B. Mendl. Large-scale stochastic simulation of open quantum systems. Nature Communications, 16(1):11074, December 2025. Publisher: Nature Publishing Group. [PDF] (visited on 2025-12-11), doi:10.1038/s41467-025-66846-x.

[4]

Aaron Sander, Maximilian Fröhlich, Mazen Ali, Martin Eigel, Jens Eisert, Michael Hintermüller, Christian B. Mendl, Richard M. Milbradt, and Robert Wille. Quantum circuit simulation with a local time-dependent variational principle. 2025. [PDF], arXiv:2508.10096.