pytket-cutensornet#

pytket-cutensornet is an extension to pytket that allows pytket circuits and expectation values to be simulated using cuTensorNet.

cuTensorNet is a high-performance library for tensor network computations, developed by NVIDIA. It is part of the cuQuantum SDK – a high-performance library aimed at quantum circuit simulations on the NVIDIA GPU chips.

We provide two core functionalities:

Full tensor network contraction: use tk_to_tensor_network to translate a pytket circuit to a TensorNetwork and obtain expectation values and amplitudes via full tensor network contraction using cuQuantum’s optimised contraction path.
Matrix Product State (MPS): use simulate to simulate a pytket circuit, returning an MPS representation of the output state, of which you can then get_amplitude or calculate inner products with other MPS via vdot.

Currently, only single-GPU calculations are supported, but a multi-GPU execution will be implemented in the due course using mpi4py library.

pytket-cutensornet is available for Python 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11 on Linux. In order to use it, you need access to a Linux machine with an NVIDIA GPU of Compute Capability +7.0 (check it here) and first install cuQuantum Python following their installation instructions. This will include the necessary dependencies such as CUDA toolkit. Then, to install pytket-cutensornet, run:

pip install pytket-cutensornet