Piquasso is based on a fine-grained model for photonic quantum computations. Besides general computational models, Piquasso allows the application of special cases, such as computations on particle number conserving or a pure Fock backend. The explicit use of those special cases results in certain benefits. First of all, in Piquasso one can avoid decoherence if the computation is theoretically guaranteed to be pure. Moreover, the execution time and memory requirements of the computations can be significantly reduced for those special cases.
Piquasso and its dependencies can be installed via pip:
pip install piquasso
If you wish to, you can also install piquassoboost for performance improvement.
We welcome people who want to make contributions to Piquasso, be it big or small! If you are considering larger contributions to the source code, please contact us first.
We also appreciate bug reports, suggestions, or any kind of idea regarding Piquasso.
The eigen3 C++ library needs to be installed for the
thewalrus (dependency of strawberryfields).
On Ubuntu/Debian you can install it with
sudo apt-get install libeigen3-dev
Now, to install development dependencies, use:
pip install -rrequirements.txt
Tests and additional checks can be run using tox. After installation, run the
following command:
tox -e py39
Alternatively, you can run only the tests using pytest. After installation, run the
following command:
pytest tests