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A plugin allowing OpenFermion to interaface with ProjectQ.

Project description

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OpenFermion is an open source package for compiling and analyzing quantum algorithms that simulate fermionic systems. This plugin library allows the circuit simulation and compilation package ProjectQ to interface with OpenFermion.

Getting started

Installing OpenFermion-ProjectQ requires pip. Make sure that you are using an up-to-date version of it. Once installation is complete, be sure to take a look at the ipython notebook demo as well as our detailed code documentation.

Developer install

To install the latest versions of OpenFermion, ProjectQ and OpenFermion-ProjectQ (in development mode):

git clone https://github.com/quantumlib/OpenFermion-ProjectQ
cd OpenFermion-ProjectQ
python -m pip install -e .

Library install

To install the latest PyPI releases as libraries (in user mode):

python -m pip install --pre --user openfermionprojectq

How to contribute

We’d love to accept your contributions and patches to OpenFermion-ProjectQ. There are a few guidelines you need to follow. Contributions to OpenFermion-ProjectQ must be accompanied by a Contributor License Agreement. You (or your employer) retain the copyright to your contribution, this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as part of the project. Head over to https://cla.developers.google.com/ to see your current agreements on file or to sign a new one.

All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult GitHub Help for more information on using pull requests. Furthermore, please make sure your new code comes with extensive tests! We use automatic testing to make sure all pull requests pass tests and do not decrease overall test coverage by too much. Make sure you adhere to our style guide. Just have a look at our code for clues. We mostly follow PEP 8 and use the corresponding linter to check for it. Code should always come with documentation.

Authors

Ryan Babbush (Google), Jarrod McClean (Google), Ian Kivlichan (Harvard), Damian Steiger (ETH Zurich), Thomas Haener (ETH Zurich) and Dave Bacon (Google).

Questions?

If you have any other questions, please contact help@openfermion.org.

Disclaimer

Copyright 2017 The OpenFermion Developers. This is not an official Google product.

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