We present Qibo, a new open-source software for fast evaluation of quantum circuits and adiabatic evolution which takes full advantage of hardware accelerators. The growing interest in quantum computing and the recent developments of quantum hardware devices motivates the development of new advanced computational tools focused on performance and usage simplicity. In this work we introduce a new quantum simulation framework that enables developers to delegate all complicated aspects of hardware or platform implementation to the library so they can focus on the problem and quantum algorithms at hand. This software is designed from scratch with simulation performance, code simplicity and user friendly interface as target goals. It takes advantage of hardware acceleration such as multi-threading CPU, single GPU and multi-GPU devices.
@article{arxiv.2009.01845,
title = {Qibo: a framework for quantum simulation with hardware acceleration},
author = {Stavros Efthymiou and Sergi Ramos-Calderer and Carlos Bravo-Prieto and Adrián Pérez-Salinas and Diego García-Martín and Artur Garcia-Saez and José Ignacio Latorre and Stefano Carrazza},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01845},
year = {2021}
}
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15 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables,code available at https://github.com/qiboteam/qibo, final version published in QST