Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python

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Post by jtauber » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 5:33 AM UTC

Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python
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Re: Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python

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Post by erikb » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 8:33 AM UTC

It would be great if the functions were documented in a way to show what these gates do and why they exist anyway. Not everybody has some pre education on quantum computing, right?

Re: Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python

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Post by jpwagner » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 9:19 AM UTC

erikb wrote: post #2

It would be great if the functions were documented in a way to show what these gates do and why they exist anyway. Not everybody has some pre education on quantum computing, right?

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-435j-quantum-compu...

Re: Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python

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Post by Bakkot » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 9:22 AM UTC

Hasn't SymPy done this for a while?

http://docs.sympy.org/0.7.2-py3k/modules/physics/quantum/ind...

Re: Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python

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Post by shabble » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 11:04 AM UTC

In what might not come entirely as a surprise, Damian Conway has been along this road a long while ago: http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Quantum-Superpositions-1.03/...

Re: Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python

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Post by jtauber » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 5:25 PM UTC

erikb wrote: post #2

It would be great if the functions were documented in a way to show what these gates do and why they exist anyway. Not everybody has some pre education on quantum computing, right?

That presupposes I understand them :-)

My coding followed a specific talk which didn't go at all into why these particular gates are useful.

Once I grok that, I'll improve the code.