We have developed a software library that simulates noisy quantum logic circuits. We represent quantum states by their density matrices in the Pauli basis, and incorporate possible errors in initialisation, logic gates, memory and measurement using simple models. Our quantum simulator is implemented as a new backend on IBM's open-source Qiskit platform. In this document, we provide its description, and illustrate it with some simple examples.
@article{arxiv.1908.05154,
title = {A Software Simulator for Noisy Quantum Circuits},
author = {Himanshu Chaudhary and Biplab Mahato and Lakshya Priyadarshi and Naman Roshan and Utkarsh and Apoorva D. Patel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05154},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures. Feel free to use this open source software library, but acknowledge our work if you do so. (v2) Clarifications added. Version to be published in the International Journal of Modern Physics C (World Scientific)