Beyond full statevector simulation with Qibo

TL;DR

This paper introduces two new quantum circuit simulation protocols integrated into Qibo, enhancing its capabilities for simulating quantum systems more efficiently with Clifford and tensor network methods.

Contribution

The paper presents the addition of Clifford and tensor network simulation backends to Qibo, expanding its functionality and benchmarking their performance against existing methods.

Findings

Clifford and tensor network backends are now available in Qibo.

The new backends are benchmarked against state-of-the-art methods.

The framework is updated to version 0.2.9.

Abstract

In this proceedings, we present two new quantum circuit simulation protocols recently added as optional backends to Qibo, an open-source framework for quantum simulation, hardware control and calibration. We describe the current status of the framework as for version 0.2.9. In detail, the two new backends for Clifford and tensor networks simulation are presented and benchmarked against the state-of-the-art.