Rigetti's quantum computers can be operated by way of the means discussed by other commenters (toothpicks and tweezers at the oscilloscope), or can be loaded wi

Rigetti's quantum computers can be operated by way of the means discussed by other commenters (toothpicks and tweezers at the oscilloscope), or can be loaded with a quantum instruction code called Quil [0], which can be written with Python using pyQuil [1,2]. The former is preferred by physicists doing physics experiments, and the latter by software engineers and application developers. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.03355.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.03355.pdf [1] http://forest.rigetti.com/ http://forest.rigetti.com/ [2] https://github.com/rigetticomputing/pyQuil https://github.com/rigetticomputing/pyQuil