Welcome to QX-simulator’s documentation!

QX-simulator is a simulator for cQasm quantum circuits.

It is developed at QuTech in Delft, The Netherlands.

It comes both as an executable binary built from C++ and a Python wrapper API called QXelarator.

For questions and comments, please contact the current maintainer of the package, Pablo Le Hénaff <p.lehenaff@tudelft.nl>.

User manual

• Installation
  • Installation of the Python package
  • Installation from source
    • Building the Python package
    • Building the C++ executable from source
• Usage
  • Running the simulator from Python
    • Python API
    • Using a constant seed for random number generation
    • JSON output
  • Running the binary built from source
• Output
  • Contents of the output
  • Iterating a simulation
• Error models
  • Depolarizing channel
• Internals of the simulator
  • Sparse state vector