bombenchris / plotqcircuit

Visualize quantum circuits with matplotlib

Simplified Plotting Routines for Quantum Circuits

Rick Muller

This program takes some of the circuit tricks that Brian Granger, Aaron Meurer and Ondrej Certik first developed in Sympy and I subsequently updated.

I pulled out all of the code into a set of standalone python functions because I wanted to:

• have fewer dependencies for people to install;
• make a simpler code base to experiment with;
• separate the quantum circuit from the plotter from the simulator;
• experiment with scheduling quantum operations rather than plotting one gate in each time step.

There are lots of other tools you can do for circuit plotting.

• Qasm2circ
• Q-circuit
• The aforementioned Sympy circuit plotter.

TODO List:

• Figure out an elegant way to put multiqubit targets into the gates.
• Use multiqubit rectangles for multitarget gates, if the wires are adjacent.