Pulse simulator for IcarusQ

[scarrazza]

I think we should consider the implementation of a pulse simulator for IcarusQ.

[sorewachigauyo]

@scarrazza By pulse simulator, do you mean something closer to QuTIP with pulses or using the qibo simulators with the adjustments for the chip topology?

[scarrazza]

I believe the later, e.g. IBM provide fake simulator for their chips, so you can have a feeling about the impact of noise.

[sorewachigauyo]

I think that for "a feeling about the impact of noise", it might be more accurate to use the former

@KuriFufu might have an idea for this

[KuriFufu]

I simulated single qubit gates once with the eigensolver from QuTiP. For including noise models it might be better to use the processor class from QuTiP, but I never used it before. There one can simulate different noise sources. The work flow there is like this :

[scarrazza]

@KuriFufu thanks for explaining this approach. At some point we should check if this works well for the new chip with 10 qubit.

[yjmaxpayne]

Is this issue still in the roadmap? It will be helpful to have something similar to QuTiP with pulse optimisation functions enabled, such as these examples: https://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/qutip/qutip-notebooks/blob/master/examples/qip-optpulseprocessor.ipynb or https://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/qutip/qutip-notebooks/blob/master/examples/control-pulseoptim-Hadamard.ipynb

on a side note, will interfacing Qibo/Qibolab with QuTiP be an option for realizing pulse level simulation of quantum circuits?

[alecandido]

Maybe it would be relevant to tag @jykhoo1987

[alecandido]

Now the emulator has been merged in #849, so the basic version of this is available in releases.

Further issues will be tracked separately.