qc-ga

We are using DEAP package to initiate and continue our evolution, and we are using ProjectQ to perform quantum computer simulations. Currently, we are using a set of genetic operators and selection procedure highly similar to [Potocek thing], but we allowed user to describe the topology of the quantum computer the proposed algorithms may be run on. We are still working on the project and we are planning to improve it further.

More details will be added later on.

TODO: Add link to paper

Requirements

Python version: 3.9 (3.10 does not work due to numpy 1.19 requirement)

Libraries:

• libhdf5 (required by qclib)

Pip modules (defined in requirements.txt): TODO

Usage

Roadmap

Contributing

TODOS:

• Save statevector (and noisy densitymatrix) of circuit outcome
• check remove consecutive inverse gates
• create picture of ga process and data processing

Known issues

• does not filter empty/trivial circuits and gates
• does not combine e.g. sqrtx gates

Authors and acknowledgements

Authors who contributed directly to the codebase and research:

• Berat Yenilen was the primary developer and implemented the genetic algorithm
• Tom Rindell helped with developement and data analysis
• Niklas Halonen helped with project cleanup and data analysis
• Matti Raasakka led the project and did theoretical research

Services and projects we wish to acknowledge

• Aalto Scientific computing for the Triton cluster
• The authors wish to acknowledge CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland, for computational resources
• DEAP
• ProjectQ
• Qiskit

Project status

The project is in its final stages and will see no future updates.

License

Copyright 2022 Aalto University, Berat Yenilen, Tom Rindell, Niklas Halonen, Matti Raasakka

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