arch

System architecture tools for big quantum photonics.

conventions

• Tabs are used for indentation throughout. (4 spaces per tab)
• Initial and date your FIXME and TODO notes

philosophy

arch should be

• everything to everyone in quantum photonics
• clear, concise, powerful

Dependencies

Python 3.9 is required.

The non built-in packages required for this project are found in requirements.txt and can are installed as usual with pip install -r requirements.txt

There is currently a bug which requires the use of sympy 1.7, rather than the most recent 1.8.

open problems

How should we handle time?

• Clocked
• Time-independent
  • works for some optics, not others
• Synchronous
  • works for everything
  • time keeping tricky
• Continuous time
  • most rigorous

contributors

University of Bristol

JW Silverstone, S Currie, DA Quintero Dominguez, M Radulovic, D Roberts, LM Rosenfeld