  Most of the widely used quantum programming languages and libraries are not
designed for the tightly coupled nature of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms,
which run on quantum resources that are integrated on-premise with classical
HPC infrastructure. We propose a programming model using the API provided by
OpenMP to target quantum devices, which provides an easy-to-use and efficient
interface for HPC applications to utilize quantum compute resources. We have
implemented a variational quantum eigensolver using the programming model,
which has been tested using a classical simulator. We are in the process of
testing on the quantum resources hosted at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
(LRZ).
