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copyright = {arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license}
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@article{Ball2021,
doi = {10.1088/2058-9565/abdca6},
url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/abdca6},
year = {2021},
month = {sep},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
volume = {6},
number = {4},
pages = {044011},
author = {H. Ball and M. J. Biercuk and A. R. R. Carvalho and J. C. and M. Hush and L. A. De Castro and L. Li and P. J Liebermann and H. J. Slatyer and C. Edmunds and V. Frey and C. Hempel and A. Milne},
title = {Software tools for quantum control: improving quantum computer performance through noise and error suppression},
journal = {Quantum Sci. Technol.}
}

@article{Cross2019,
title = {Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits},
author = {Cross, A. W. and Bishop, L. S. and Sheldon, S. and Nation, P. D. and Gambetta, J. M.},
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url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2}
}

@misc{Pasquale2023,
title = {Towards an open-source framework to perform quantum calibration and characterization},
author = {A. Pasquale and S. Efthymiou and S. Ramos-Calderer and J. Wilkens and I. Roth and S. Carrazza},
year = {2023},
eprint = {2303.10397},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
primaryClass = {quant-ph}
}

@misc{Qiskit,
author = {M. S. Anis and A. Mitchell and H. Abraham and A. Offei and R. Agarwal and G. Agliardi and M. Aharoni and I. Y. Akhalwaya and G. Aleksandrowicz and \emph{et al.}},
title = {Qiskit: An Open-source Framework for Quantum Computing},
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Forest [@Smith2016] are part of the quantum stack to execute quantum circuits on hardware.
They also enable high-level applications that abstract away the quantum hardware.
Forest-benchmarking [@Forest] and pyGSTi [@pyGSTi] are tailored towards benchmarking of quantum hardware.
Commercial solutions that provide quantum optimal control as a service now also exist [@Ball2021].
However, there is still a need for open-source software that enables researchers and hardware
maintainers to easily execute characterization and calibration experiments.
`Qiskit Experiments` is unique in this perspective as it provides low-level characterization
experiments that integrate with pulse-level control [@Alexander2020].
Recently, software packages have started to emerge to fill this gap [@Pasquale2023].
`Qiskit Experiments` is unique in this perspective as it provides open-source low-level
characterization experiments that integrate with pulse-level control [@Alexander2020].
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In addition, `Qiskit Experiments` provides a calibration framework to manage device calibration.
This framework is usable with any hardware exposed as a Qiskit backend.
This framework is usable with any hardware exposed as a Qiskit backend.
`Qiskit Experiments` greatly simplifies the execution of complex experiments.
Indeed, the experiments in the library run multiple quantum circuits and complex fitting
but only require a few code lines to run.
In addition, the base framework of `Qiskit Experiments` provides experimentalists a clear interface
to create new experiments.
They must (i) implement the abstract `circuits` method, (ii) define the experiment
options, and optionally (iii) implement the analysis class, if not already present in the library.
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For example, the `Qiskit Experiments` framework is used to explore measurements without qubit
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reset [@Tornow2022], benchmarking [@Amico2023], characterize positive operator value measures [@Fischer2022], quantum
states [@Hamilton2022], and time-evolutions [@Greenaway2022], as well as calibrate gates [@Vazquez2022].
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# Documentation

`Qiskit Experiments` documentation is available at [https://qiskit.org/documentation/experiments](https://qiskit.org/documentation/experiments).
The documentation also includes [experiment manuals](https://qiskit.org/documentation/experiments/manuals/index.html)
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that show how to run experiments such as the Quantum Volume presented above.

# Acknowledgements

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