A mathematica package for simulation of quantum computation

Abstract

In this paper we briefly describe a Mathematica package for simulation of quantum circuits and illustrate some of its features by simple examples. Unlike other Mathematica-based quantum simulators, our program provides a user-friendly graphical interface for generating quantum circuits and computing the circuit unitary matrices. It can be used for designing and testing different quantum algorithms. As an example we consider a quantum circuit implementing Grover's search algorithm and show that it gives a quadratic speed-up in solving the search problem. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.