Executable Noise-aware Simulator
The tool also supports noise-aware quantum circuit simulation, based on a stochastic approach. It currently supports global decoherence and gate error noise effects. A detailed summary of the simulator is presented in []. Note that the simulator currently does not support simulating the integrated algorithms.
Building the simulator requires Threads::Threads
. It can be built by executing
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -S . -B build
$ cmake --build build --config Release --target ddsim_noise_aware
The simulator provides a help function which is called in the following way:
$ ./build/ddsim_noise_aware -h
MQT DDSIM by https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/ -- Allowed options:
-h [ --help ] produce help message
--seed arg (=0) seed for random number generator (default zero is possibly directly used as seed!)
--pm print measurements
--ps print simulation stats (applied gates, sim. time, and maximal size of the DD)
--verbose Causes some simulators to print additional information to STDERR
--simulate_file arg simulate a quantum circuit given by file (detection by the file extension)
--step_fidelity arg (=1) target fidelity for each approximation run (>=1 = disable approximation)
--steps arg (=1) number of approximation steps
--noise_effects arg (=APD) Noise effects (A (=amplitude damping),D (=depolarization),P (=phase flip)) in the form of a character string describing the noise effects
--noise_prob arg (=0.001) Probability for applying noise
--confidence arg (=0.05) Confidence in the error bound of the stochastic simulation
--error_bound arg (=0.1) Error bound of the stochastic simulation
--stoch_runs arg (=0) Number of stochastic runs. When the value is 0 the value is calculated using the confidence, error_bound and number of tracked properties.
--properties arg (=-3-1000) Comma separated list of tracked properties. Note that -1 is the fidelity and "-" can be used to specify a range.
Process finished with exit code 0
An example run, with amplitude damping, phase flip, and depolarization error (each with a probability of 0.1% whenever a gate is applied) looks like this:
$ ./build/ddsim_noise_aware --ps --noise_effects APD --stoch_runs 10000 --noise_prob 0.001 --simulate_file adder4.qasm
{
"statistics": {
"applied_gates": 23,
"approximation_runs": "0.000000",
"benchmark": "stoch_APD_adder_n4",
"final_fidelity": "0.937343",
"max_nodes": 10,
"mean_stoch_run_time": "0.015796",
"n_qubits": 4,
"parallel_instances": "28",
"perfect_run_time": "0.000066",
"seed": "0",
"simulation_time": 5.911194324493408,
"step_fidelity": "1.000000",
"stoch_runs": 10000,
"stoch_wall_time": "5.911118",
"threads": 28
}
}