qutip-cuquantum 0.2.0

cuQuantum backend for QuTiP

qutip-cuquantum

Provide cuQuantum's cuDensityMat as a backend for QuTiP.

This backend is specifically designed for simulating large, composite quantum systems by performing tensor network contractions on the GPU.

Installation

qutip-cuquantum is available on pypi.

pip install -U qutip>=5.2.1
pip install qutip-cuquantum

It require cuquantum to be installed at runtime. If you have cuda already installed, you can install dependencies with:

pip install qutip-cuquantum[cuda11]

or

pip install qutip-cuquantum[cuda12]

If it does not work, you may need to install cuQuantum yourself, see nvidia's documentation for installation instruction.

Usage

In simple case, simply calling set_as_default before a qutip script should be sufficient to use the backend in common solver:

import qutip_cuquantum
from cuquantum.densitymat import WorkStream

qutip_cuquantum.set_as_default(WorkStream())

It can also be used as a context:

with CuQuantumBackend(ctx):
    ...

qutip-cuquantum work well to speed-up large simulation using mesolve or sesolve. However this backend is not compatible with advanced qutip solvers (brmesolve, HEOM) and other various feature.