CQT Colloquium
Speaker: Jon Allcock, Tencent
Abstract: We give an overview of TensorCircuit, a new open source quantum circuit simulator based on tensor network contraction, and built on top of industry-standard machine learning frameworks. It supports automatic differentiation, just-in-time compilation, vectorized parallelism and hardware acceleration, which allow researchers to simulate larger and more complex quantum circuits than existing simulators, and make it especially suited to variational algorithms based on parameterized quantum circuits as well as hybrid quantum-classical neural networks.