Know Your Qubits, Know Your Users: Personas for Quantum Software

Quantum Physics arXiv:2608.18598 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 19 Aug 2026] Title:Know Your Qubits, Know Your Users: Personas for Quantum Software Authors:Lukas Schmidbauer, Joshua Ammermann, Laura Schulz, Jose Garcia-Alonso, Robert Wille, Sebastian Feld, Ina Schaefer, Wolfgang Mauerer View a PDF of the paper titled Know Your Qubits, Know Your Users: Personas for Quantum Software, by Lukas Schmidbauer and Joshua Ammermann and Laura Schulz and Jose Garcia-Alonso and Robert Wille and Sebastian Feld and Ina Schaefer and Wolfgang Mauerer View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The advancement of quantum hardware and the intricacies of quantum computing make well-designed quantum software increasingly necessary. Due to the interdisciplinarity of the field, it is crucial to understand the perspectives and specific needs of involved stakeholders, for example, to balance the desired level of abstraction with the exposition of (hardware)-specific details. In this work, we conduct a stakeholder-based analysis to identify personas of quantum software as a means of creating meaningful, user-tailored quantum software. We conducted an expert focus group at a Dagstuhl seminar in 2024 and qualitative interviews with practitioners at conference IEEE QCE in 2025, from which we derive eleven personas of potential users and stakeholders for quantum software. We discuss these personas regarding their use cases, interests, constraints and abstraction level. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2608.18598 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2608.18598v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.18598 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Journal reference: 1st Workshop on Quantum Modeling (QMOD) @ MODELS 2026 Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3837062.3839073 Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources Submission history From: Lukas Schmidbauer [view email] [v1] Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:41:12 UTC (374 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Know Your Qubits, Know Your Users: Personas for Quantum Software, by Lukas Schmidbauer and Joshua Ammermann and Laura Schulz and Jose Garcia-Alonso and Robert Wille and Sebastian Feld and Ina Schaefer and Wolfgang MauererView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-08 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)