quantum-simulators.md

Quantum simulators

C++

• Qiskit Aer - High performance simulator for quantum circuits that includes noise models (supported by IBM).
• Intel Quantum Simulator - Distributed qubit register quantum simulator using OpenMP and MPI.
• QCL - High level, hardware-agnostic programming language for quantum computers (syntax like C or Pascal).
• Qrack - Comprehensive qubit and gate implementation for developing universal virtual quantum processors.
• qSim - High level, elementary simulation library.
• Quantum++ - High-performance general purpose quantum simulator (can simulate d-dimensional qudits).

Java

• jquil - A Java library for quantum programming using Quil.
• libQuantumJava - Crude translation from the C implementation of libquantum to a Java version.

Python

• PIQS - Efficient simulation of open quantum dynamics of identical qubits.
• QCircuits - User-friendly quantum circuit simulator designed for students and newcomers to quantum computing.
• QTop - Simulation and visualization of topological quantum computers.
• Quantum Virtual Machine - Reference implementation of Rigetti's Quantum Virtual Machine.
• Quintuple - Simulating the 5-qubit processor of the IBM Quantum Experience.
• QuPy - Quantum circuit simulator for both CPU and GPU.
• QuSim - Ideal noise-free multi-qubit simulator written in 150 lines of code.
• QuTiP - User-friendly and efficient numerical simulations of a wide variety of open quantum systems.
• SimulaQron - Application level simulator of a quantum network.
• SQUANCH - A distributed simulation framework for quantum networks and channels.

C

• QuaC - Parallel time-dependent open quantum systems solver.
• QuEST - Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit is a high performance multicore simulator of universal quantum circuits.
• TNQVM - Tensor Network QPU Simulator for Eclipse XACC.

Common Lisp

• BLACK-STONE - Specification and implementation of quantum common lisp, for gate-model quantum computers.
• QVM - Rigetti's high-performance quantum virtual machine.

Coq

• QWIRE - A quantum circuit language and formal verification tool described in this paper.

F#

• Liqui|> - Toolsuite for quantum simulation developed by Microsoft QuArC.

Haskell

• Quipper - Scalable functional programming language for quantum computing based on Quantum Lambda Calculus.

JavaScript

• jsquil - JavaScript interface for writing Quil programs.
• Quantum Circuit Simulator - Smoothly runs 20+ qubit simulations in browser or on node.js server.
• Quirk - Drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator in your browser.

Julia

• Cliffords.jl - Efficient calculation of Clifford circuits in Julia.
• QSimulator.jl - Unitary and Lindbladian evolution in Julia.
• QuantumInfo.jl - Julia library for quantum information related calculations.
• RandomQuantum.jl - Package for generating random quantum states and processes.
• Yao.jl - Extensible, Efficient Quantum Algorithm Design for Humans.

Mathematica

• QuantumUtils - Tools for quantum control, simulation, channel representation conversion, and perturbations.

OCaml

• QOCS - Quantum OCaml Circuit Simulator is a functional approach to simulating quantum gates.

Qumin

• Qlmp - Interpreter for the functional quantum programming language Qumin.

Rust

• QCGPU - High-performance GPU-accelerated quantum computer simulation outlined in this arXiv paper.

Swift

• SwiftQuantumComputing - Quantum circuit simulator with a bit of genetic programming.