PyZX

Contents:

• Getting Started
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • What is the ZX-calculus? What are ZX-diagrams?
  • But why use the ZX-calculus?
  • So what has been done with the ZX-calculus?
  • Where do I go to ask questions about PyZX and the ZX-calculus?
  • I don’t like Python. Can I do ZX-calculus things in different languages?
  • What are some things people have done with PyZX?
  • What is PyZX not good at?
• Optimizing and simplifying circuits
  • Optimizing circuits using the ZX-calculus
  • Circuit equality verification
  • Gate-level optimization
  • Architecture-aware circuit routing
• ZX-diagrams in PyZX and how to modify them
  • Accessing and setting vertex and edge type
  • Backends
  • Creating and modifying ZX-diagrams
  • The ZX-diagram editor
• Importing and exporting quantum circuits and ZX-diagrams
  • Importing and exporting quantum circuits
  • Importing and exporting ZX-diagrams
• Full API documentation
  • Graph API
  • Circuit API
  • Generating Circuits
  • Circuit extraction and matrices over Z2
  • List of simplifications
  • List of rewrite rules
  • List of optimization functions
  • List of routing functions
  • Functions for dealing with tensors
  • Drawing
  • Tikz and Quantomatic functionality

Notebooks:

• Getting Started
• Supported Gates
  • One-qubit gates
    • Pauli gates and Hadamard
    • Parametrized one-qubit gates
    • Fixed Z- and X- rotations defined for convenience
  • Two-qubit gates
    • Swap
    • Two-qubit rotations
    • Controlled versions of (non-parametrized) one-qubit gates
    • Controlled versions of parametrized one-qubit gates
  • Three-qubit gates
    • Controlled versions of two-qubit gates
    • Doubly-controlled one-qubit gates
  • Other gates

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page