Photonic

Illustrative examples for the optimization of photonic setups with digital quantum computers
Following this article (ArXiv:2006.03075).

The calculations from the article can be found under examples.

In slides.pdf you can find the slides of a presentation about the topic.

Dependencies

You will need the tequila package
get it here

Otherwise it will be automatically installed when you run
pip install . or, for developer mode:
pip install -e .

If you use Windows or Max OS you might run into trouble here.
See the tequila repo for more information.

There is however no installation necessary:
In order to use the code, it suffices to add the path to photonic to your PYTHONPATH
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/photonic

We recommend to use qulacs as quantum backend within tequila.
Just install and it will be selected automatically:

pip install qulacs

Trouble, Comments or Ideas?

Please let us know over github or email (see arxiv link above or here ) :-)