Piquasso is a simulator for photonic quantum computations.
This is a research project, bugs can be expected. If you encounter any, please report it in the Issues page.
Piquasso and its dependencies can be installed via pip:
pip install piquasso
If you wish to, you can also install piquassoboost for performance improvement.
The documentation is avaliable at docs.piquasso.com.
We welcome people who want to make contributions to Piquasso, be it big or small! If you are considering larger contributions to the source code, please contact us first.
We also appreciate bug reports, suggestions, or any kind of idea regarding Piquasso.
The eigen3 C++ library needs to be installed for the thewalrus (dependency of
strawberryfields).
On Ubuntu/Debian you can install it with
sudo apt-get install libeigen3-dev
Now, to install development dependencies, use:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Tests and additional checks can be run using tox. After installation, run the
following command:
tox -e py311
Alternatively, you can run only the tests using pytest. After installation, run the
following command:
pytest tests