openfermioncirq 0.4.0.dev20190710151023

Getting started

Installing OpenFermion-Cirq requires pip. Make sure that you are using an up-to-date version of it. Once installation is complete, be sure to take a look at our ipython tutorials and code documentation.

python -m pip install --user openfermioncirq

git clone https://github.com/quantumlib/OpenFermion-Cirq
cd OpenFermion-Cirq
python -m pip install -e .

How to contribute

We’d love to accept your contributions and patches to OpenFermion-Cirq. There are a few small guidelines to follow which you can read about here.

How to cite

When using OpenFermion-Cirq for research projects, please cite:

Jarrod R. McClean, Kevin J. Sung, Ian D. Kivlichan, Yudong Cao, Chengyu Dai, E. Schuyler Fried, Craig Gidney, Brendan Gimby, Pranav Gokhale, Thomas Häner, Tarini Hardikar, Vojtĕch Havlíček, Oscar Higgott, Cupjin Huang, Josh Izaac, Zhang Jiang, Xinle Liu, Sam McArdle, Matthew Neeley, Thomas O’Brien, Bryan O’Gorman, Isil Ozfidan, Maxwell D. Radin, Jhonathan Romero, Nicholas Rubin, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Kanav Setia, Sukin Sim, Damian S. Steiger, Mark Steudtner, Qiming Sun, Wei Sun, Daochen Wang, Fang Zhang and Ryan Babbush. OpenFermion: The Electronic Structure Package for Quantum Computers. arXiv:1710.07629. 2017.

We are happy to include future contributors as authors on later releases.

Alpha Disclaimer

OpenFermion-Cirq is currently in alpha. We are still making breaking changes. We will break your code when we make new releases. We recommend that you target a specific version of OpenFermion-Cirq, and periodically bump to the latest release. That way you have control over when a breaking change affects you.

Copyright 2018 The OpenFermion Developers. This is not an official Google product.