A plugin for Strawberry Fields and OpenFermion, providing methods of simulating bosonic Hamiltonians directly in Strawberry Fields
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This Strawberry Fields plugin library allows Strawberry Fields to interface with OpenFermion.
Strawberry Fields <http://github.com/XanaduAI/strawberryfields>
_ is a full-stack Python library for
designing, simulating, and optimizing continuous variable (CV) quantum optical circuits.
OpenFermion <http://openfermion.org>
_ is an open source package for compiling and analyzing
quantum algorithms that simulate fermionic systems.
Construct bosonic Hamiltonians in OpenFermion, and apply the resulting time propagation using a CV quantum circuit.
Calculates the time-evolution unitary exactly for Gaussian Hamiltonians – these can then be decomposed into the base CV gate set of Strawberry Fields using the Bloch-Messiah decomposition.
Particular non-Gaussian gate decompositions, using the Trotter formula, are also supported, including Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonians.
The Hamiltonians submodule contains important OpenFermion-compatible CV Hamiltonians, including those corresponding to the gate set used in Strawberry Fields.
To get started, please see the online documentation <https://sfopenboson.readthedocs.io>
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Installation of SFOpenBoson, as well as all required Python packages mentioned above, can be done using pip: ::
$ python -m pip install sfopenboson
Josh Izaac.
If you are doing research using Strawberry Fields, please cite our whitepaper <https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03159>
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Nathan Killoran, Josh Izaac, Nicolás Quesada, Ville Bergholm, Matthew Amy, and Christian Weedbrook. Strawberry Fields: A Software Platform for Photonic Quantum Computing. arXiv, 2018. arXiv:1804.03159
If you are having issues, please let us know by posting the issue on our Github issue tracker.
We also have a Strawberry Fields Slack channel <https://u.strawberryfields.ai/slack>
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come join the discussion and chat with our Strawberry Fields team.
SFOpenBoson is free and open source, released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.