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Could someone please explain the difference (if there is one) between this simulator and Liquid (from Microsoft Research) [1]? Liquid supports operating with ~
by AlexAltea 10y ago
Could someone please explain the difference (if there is one) between this simulator and Liquid (from Microsoft Research) [1]?
Liquid supports operating with ~30 qubits [2], so I'm wondering if Quintuple is able to do something else that Liquid doesn't offer.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/language-integrated-quantum-operations-liqui/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/language-in...
[2] http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/docs/LIQUiD.pdf http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/docs/LIQUiD.pdf (page 7)
- SloopJon 10y agoThe point of Quintuple is compatibility with the IBM Quantum Experience, so that you can noodle around on your own system before trying your program on the real thing. Is there an easily available quantum device on which I can run a Liquid program?
- krastanov 10y agoThere are no available quantum devices and there won't be any for the next few years for sure. Liquid is meant for simulations. Sure, you can run the same operations on the currently available research hardware (which is definitely not going to do anything useful, because the hardware "decoheres" way too fast). And the notation that you use does not matter much - any program that you will try to run today would be so short and the hardware so experimental, that writing the control sequences by hand for the specific hardware would be the easiest part of the exercise.
- reikonomusha 10y agoLiquid can do everything this can do and more, except for the extremely simple parsing of that simple language.