Microsoft Quantum documentation
Azure Quantum is Microsoft Azure's cloud quantum computing service. It provides an open, flexible, and future-proofed path to quantum computing that adapts to your way of working — quantum hardware from industry-leading providers, quantum software, and quantum services, all from one workspace.
Get started
What is Azure Quantum?
The cloud service, the QDK, and how the pieces fit together
Set up the QDK
Install the extension for VS Code, Python, and the Azure CLI
Introduction to Q#
What the language is, and the anatomy of a Q# program
Create your first Q# program
Entangle two qubits and read the result
Learn the concepts
Why Azure Quantum#
- Real hardware. Run programs on trapped-ion, neutral-atom, and superconducting quantum processors from IonQ, Pasqal, Quantinuum, and Rigetti.
- One language, any hardware. Q# is hardware-agnostic — the compiler and runtime handle mapping your program to physical qubits.
- Resource estimation. Understand what a fault-tolerant quantum computer would need to run your algorithm, before that hardware exists.
Explore further
See the full Azure Quantum documentation
This site covers the Get Started and Concepts sections. For the complete, up-to-date reference, pricing, and provider catalog, visit Microsoft Learn.