Simulating Quantum Computers Using OpenCL

Understand

Quantum computing is an emerging technology, promising a paradigm shift in computing, and allowing for speedups in many different problems.

• However, quantum devices are still in their early stages, most with only a small number qubits.
• This places a reliance on simulation to develop quantum algorithms and to verify these devices.
• While there exists many algorithms for the simulation of quantum circuits, there is (at the time of writing) no tools which use OpenCL to parallelize this simulation, thereby taking advantage of devices such as GPUs while still remaining portable.