Q-Sylvan extends the parallel decision diagram library Sylvan (v1.8.0) with QMDDs (i.e. multiplicative AADDs), as well as functionality to simulate quantum circuits. This is currently still a beta version.
Q-Sylvan requires the following libraries: popt
, GMP
, MPFR
and MPC
. On Ubuntu it should be possible to install these with
sudo apt-get install libpopt-dev
sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev
sudo apt-get install libmpfr-dev
sudo apt-get install libmpc-dev
sudo apt-get install cmake
After downloading or cloning the repository, from the repository folder the code can be compiled with:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
Test can be run with make test
or ctest
, or a specific test such as ./test/test_mtbdd
.
Debugging can be activated with gdb ./test/test_mtbdd
.
The GNU GDB Debugger accepts command as (gdb) run
or (gdb) backtrace
or (gdb) exit
.
See also https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs033/docs/guides/gdb.pdf.
For output on failure use ctest -output-on-failure
.
Another build can be run after removal of the build folder with rm -rdf build
.
The following code snippets are a toy example for creating the Bell state |Phi^+> = 1/sqrt(2) (|01> + |10>)
, first in the C interface, and secondly in the QASM interface.
// Create |Phi^+>
int nqubits = 2;
QMDD state = qmdd_create_all_zero_state(nqubits);
state = qmdd_gate(state, GATEID_H, 0); // H on q0
state = qmdd_cgate(state, GATEID_X, 0, 1); // CNOT on c=q0, t=q1
state = qmdd_gate(state, GATEID_X, 0); // X on q0
// Measure state
bool outcome[] = {0, 0};
double prob;
qmdd_measure_all(state, nqubits, outcome, &prob);
This code can be found in examples/bell_state.c
and after compiling the code as described above can be run with ./examples/bell_state
from the build/
directory. A more complete set of available functions can be found here.
OPENQASM 2.0;
include "qelib1.inc";
// 2 qubit quantum register and 2 bit classical register
qreg q[2];
creg c[2];
// Create |Phi^+>
h q[0];
cx q[0], q[1];
x q[0];
// Measure state
measure q[0]->c[0];
measure q[1]->c[1];
This code can be found in qasm/circuits/bell_state.qasm
and can be run with ./build/qasm/run_qasm_on_qmdd qasm/circuits/bell_state.qasm
. All gates specified in qelib1.inc are supported, as well as measurements. Custom definitions of gates and classical conditioning are currently not supported.
A more complete documentation of the C interface can be found here.
This work is supported by the NEASQC project, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme, Grant Agreement No. 951821.