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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.
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Gerdt, V.P., Kragler, R., Prokopenya, A.N. (2009). A Mathematica Package for Simulation of Quantum Computation. In: Gerdt, V.P., Mayr, E.W., Vorozhtsov, E.V. (eds) Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing. CASC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5743. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04103-7_11
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