Qibo: a framework for quantum simulation with hardware acceleration

TL;DR

Qibo is an open-source quantum simulation framework optimized for hardware acceleration, enabling efficient evaluation of quantum circuits and adiabatic evolution with a user-friendly interface.

Contribution

It introduces a new quantum simulation library that abstracts hardware complexities, focusing on performance, simplicity, and multi-platform acceleration.

Findings

Supports multi-threaded CPU, GPU, and multi-GPU acceleration

Achieves high simulation performance and efficiency

Provides a user-friendly interface for quantum algorithm development

Abstract

We present Qibo, a new open-source software for fast evaluation of quantum circuits and adiabatic evolution which takes full advantage of hardware accelerators. The growing interest in quantum computing and the recent developments of quantum hardware devices motivates the development of new advanced computational tools focused on performance and usage simplicity. In this work we introduce a new quantum simulation framework that enables developers to delegate all complicated aspects of hardware or platform implementation to the library so they can focus on the problem and quantum algorithms at hand. This software is designed from scratch with simulation performance, code simplicity and user friendly interface as target goals. It takes advantage of hardware acceleration such as multi-threading CPU, single GPU and multi-GPU devices.