Experiments using quantum circuits
This is a collection of algorithms and experiments written in and using Cirq. A couple of them use only base Cirq, but the rest use additional code stored in ReCirq, a Github repository for research code that uses and builds upon Cirq.
Algorithms in base Cirq
Algorithms and experiments executable using only default Cirq code.
Textbook Algorithms Workshop
A workshop notebook with examples that covers algorithms commonly shown in quantum textbooks.
Shor's Algorithm
The famous integer factorization algorithm by Peter Shor.
Variational Quantum Eigensolver
Compute the ground state of a Hamiltonian using the variational principle.
Quantum Walks
The quantum analog of a random walk algorithm.
Fourier Checking
Demonstrate the separation between quantum and classical computers.
Hidden Linear Function problem
Show quantum separation with a constant depth solution.
ReCirq Experiments
Research experiments that use additional library code that resides in the external ReCirq repository.
ReCirq Guide
How to use and contribute to ReCirq.
Research with ReCirq
How to use this code.
ReCirq experiment structure
How ReCirq experiments are structured.
Data collection
How ReCirq experiments collect data.
Data analysis
How ReCirq experiments analyze data.
Best practices
Additional advice on writing ReCirq experiments.
QAOA
Tutorials and examples with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm.
Example problems
Introductory QAOA problems.
Tasks
QAOA experiment Task object.
Precomputed analysis
QAOA analysis with precomputed optimal angles.
Landscape analysis
QAOA analysis with a hardware landscape.
Optimization analysis
QAOA analysis with an optimization path.
Hardware grid circuits
QAOA on grid-shaped hardware.
Routing with tket
Use t|ket> to map QAOA to a generic device.
Hartree-Fock VQE
How to run the Hartree-Fock Variational Quantum Eigensolver experiment.
Quickstart
A short tutorial to show HFVQE in action.
Molecular data
How to make molecule files for use with HFVQE.
Fermi-Hubbard
Simulating spin and charge dynamics with a Fermi-Hubbard model.
Experiment example
End-to-end with a single instance of the Fermi-Hubbard experiment.
Spin-charge separation results
Experimental data collected and analyzed.
Quantum Scrambling
Use out-of-time-order (OTOC) correlators to demonstrate quantum scrambling.
Experiment example
Build, run and plot an OTOC circuit.
Toric Code
Explore the toric code model of interacting qubits.
Ground State
Create a toric code ground state.
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Physics
Probe the dynamics of transferred magnetization in the Heisenberg spin chain.