SimulaQron Documentation¶
Welcome to the Quantum Internet simulator SimulaQron!
SimulaQron is a distributed simulation of the end nodes in a future quantum internet with the specific goal to explore application development. The end nodes in a quantum internet are few qubit processors, which may exchange qubits using a quantum internet. Specifically, SimulaQron allows the installation of a local simulation program on each computer in the network that provides the illusion of having a local quantum processor to potential applications. The local simulation programs on each classical computer connect to each other classically, forming a simulated quantum internet allowing the exchange of simulated qubits between the different network nodes, as well as the creation of simulated entanglement.
SimulaQron is written in Python and uses the Twisted Perspective Broker. To perform the local qubit simulation, three different backends have so far been implemented: Using QuTip and mixed state, using Project Q and pure states and finally using stabilizer formalism. However, any other quantum simulator with a python interface can easily be used as a local backend. The main challenge of SimulaQron is to allow the simulation of virtual qubits at different network nodes: since these may be entangled they cannot be simulated on one network node, which is solved by a transparent distributed simulation on top of in principle any local simulation engine.
We also have a paper that describe the design of SimulaQron, which is also freely available on arxiv.
The documentation below assumes familiarity with classical network programming concepts, Python, Twisted, as well as an elementary understanding of quantum information. More information on a competition at Our website
SimulaQron can be installed from pip by the command pip3 install simulaqron on MacOS and Linux.