The Qudit Cirq Library: An Extension of Google's Cirq Library for Qudits

TL;DR

The paper introduces the Qudit Cirq library, an extension of Google's Cirq for qudits, providing tools for creating, manipulating, and simulating qudit-based quantum circuits to facilitate research in this area.

Contribution

It develops a comprehensive extension to Cirq that includes methods for qudit creation, gate application, circuit building, and simulation, filling a gap in existing quantum computing tools.

Findings

Provides built-in methods for qudit operations

Enables simulation of qudit quantum circuits

Facilitates research in qudit quantum computing

Abstract

This document contains a guide on how to use the Qudit Cirq library, an extension of Google's Cirq library for qudits. While Cirq provides necessary building blocks for quantum computation on qudits, the gates, curcuits and simulation of qudit systems need to be developed from scratch. Our extension to the Cirq library has built-in methods for creating qudits, applying common qudit gates, building circuits and simulating quantum computation on these circuits. This is ideal for researchers who want to use an off-the-shelf library to simulate qudit systems.