A distributed simulation framework for quantum networks and channels

Understand

We introduce the Simulator for Quantum Networks and Channels ($\texttt{SQUANCH}$), an open-source Python library for creating parallelized simulations of distributed quantum information processing.

• The framework includes many features of a general-purpose quantum computing simulator, but it is optimized specifically for simulating quantum networks.
• It includes functionality to allow users to easily design complex multi-party quantum networks, extensible classes for modeling noisy quantum channels, and a multiprocessed NumPy backend for performant simulations.
• We present an overview of the structure of the library, describing how the various API elements represent the underlying physics and providing simple usage examples for each module.