Qibo: a framework for quantum simulation with hardware acceleration

We present Qibo , a new open-source software for fast evaluation of quantum circuits and adiabatic evolution which takes full advantage of hardware accelerators. The growing interest in quantum computing and the recent developments of quantum hardware devices motivates the development of new advance...

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Published inQuantum science and technology Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 15018 - 15036
Main Authors Efthymiou, Stavros, Ramos-Calderer, Sergi, Bravo-Prieto, Carlos, Pérez-Salinas, Adrián, García-Martín, Diego, Garcia-Saez, Artur, Latorre, José Ignacio, Carrazza, Stefano
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IOP Publishing 01.01.2022
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GPU simulation
parallel computing
quantum algorithms
quantum-simulation
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Summary:We present Qibo , a new open-source software for fast evaluation of quantum circuits and adiabatic evolution which takes full advantage of hardware accelerators. The growing interest in quantum computing and the recent developments of quantum hardware devices motivates the development of new advanced computational tools focused on performance and usage simplicity. In this work we introduce a new quantum simulation framework that enables developers to delegate all complicated aspects of hardware or platform implementation to the library so they can focus on the problem and quantum algorithms at hand. This software is designed from scratch with simulation performance, code simplicity and user friendly interface as target goals. It takes advantage of hardware acceleration such as multi-threading Central Processing Unit (CPU), single Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and multi-GPU devices.
Bibliography:QST-101323.R1
ISSN:2058-9565
2058-9565
DOI:10.1088/2058-9565/ac39f5