Hybrid Schrödinger-Feynman Simulator

Hybrid Schrödinger-Feynman approaches strive to use all the available memory and processing units in order to efficiently simulate quantum circuits which would (1) run into memory bottlenecks using Schrödinger-style simulation, or (2) take exceedingly long using Feynman-style path summation—eventually trading-off the respective memory and runtime requirements.

Usage in Python

Available backends in the provider DDSIMProvider:

• hybrid_qasm_simulator to simulate and sample from the resulting state

• hybrid_statevector_simulator to simulate and explicitly return the state vector (which will require an exponential amount of memory in the number of qubits)

Usage as Standalone Executable

Please see Circuit Simulator on how to build the ddsim_simple (the name stuck due to historical reasons ;) ) CMake target.

Launching the standalone executable with -h parameter shows the available options (truncated to highlight the hybrid settings):

$ ./ddsim_simple --help
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!)
--shots arg (=0)                      number of measurements (if the algorithm does not contain non-unitary gates, weak simulation is used)
--pv                                  display the state vector as list of pairs (real and imaginary parts)
--ps                                  print simulation stats (applied gates, sim. time, and maximal size of the DD)
--pm                                  print measurement results
--pcomplex                            print print additional statistics on complex numbers
--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)
--simulate_file_hybrid arg            simulate a quantum circuit given by file (detection by the file extension) using the hybrid Schrodinger-Feynman simulator
--hybrid_mode arg                     mode used for hybrid Schrodinger-Feynman simulation (*amplitude*, dd)
--nthreads arg (=2)                   #threads used for hybrid simulation
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If you are using this simulator, please cite [9].