A Mathematica Package for Simulation of Quantum Computation

  • Authors:
  • Vladimir P. Gerdt;Robert Kragler;Alexander N. Prokopenya

  • Affiliations:
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia 141980;University of Applied Sciences, Weingarten, Germany D-88241;Brest State Technical University, Brest, Belarus 224017

  • Venue:
  • CASC '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we briefly describe a Mathematica package for simulation of quantum circuits and illustrate some of its features by simple examples. Unlike other Mathematica -based quantum simulators, our program provides a user-friendly graphical interface for generating quantum circuits and computing the circuit unitary matrices. It can be used for designing and testing different quantum algorithms. As an example we consider a quantum circuit implementing Grover's search algorithm and show that it gives a quadratic speed-up in solving the search problem.