Quantum Software Architecture Blueprints for the Cloud: Overview and Application to Peer-2-Peer Energy Trading

Applied quantum computing research has often focused on determining business-driven use-cases and applications of quantum algorithms which may provide advantage, either runtime or solution quality, over their classical counterparts. Often missed, yet equally important, is the discussion on how to actually run quantum software applications or models in a production environment where they run in an event-based or scheduled manner thereby providing the results to the enterprise which has spent time upskilling their development team and developing the quantum software solution.In this paper, we introduce a hybrid classical-quantum cloud architecture blueprint which starts from the code-level software development level, and extends to the production-ready quantum software application level. We then, for the first time, introduce a novel sample optimization application used in the energy industry for Peer-2-Peer energy trading and deploy it using the proposed cloud architecture blueprint. We demonstrate sample output of the live-running application where trading optimizations occurs on an hourly basis via remote connection to a quantum computing cloud backend.