Introducing a Qobj like in QuTiP? More QuTiP combatability? about c3

[lazyoracle]

QuTiP has active projects for implementing GPU and TensorFlow backends to their Qobj. The QuTiP API is mature, extensible and widely used. It is feature-rich with introduction of the pulse level circuit simulation recently. I, for one, feel that there is strong incentive in increasingly porting our code to this style, essentially allowing any backends - a QuTiP backend, our own TensorFlow based simulator, a real hardware stack. That is the right direction that would enable we get to do all the nice C3 stuff while keeping it decoupled from the developments of the simulator/control stack etc.

[shaimach]

I think we have much more important and interesting things to do than QuTip compatibility. I'm not saying we cannot have a few routines to transfer information there and back - that's a few hour's work, so no reason not to do it. But to invest time in changing the internal object format is not the correct prioritization.

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On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 11:49, Anurag Saha Roy ***@***.***> wrote: QuTiP has active projects <https://github.com/qutip/qutip/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2021> for implementing GPU and TensorFlow backends to their Qobj. The QuTiP API is mature, extensible and widely used. It is feature-rich with introduction of the pulse level circuit simulation recently. I, for one, feel that there is strong incentive in increasingly porting our code to this style, essentially allowing any backends - a QuTiP backend, our own TensorFlow based simulator, a real hardware stack. That is the right direction that would enable we get to do all the nice C3 stuff while keeping it decoupled from the developments of the simulator/control stack etc. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#96 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAH3Q4ISZT6BQ7DTFTVFCH3TPSYYJANCNFSM45RPVZCQ> .

[lazyoracle]

Closing this for now since it is not immediate priority. Please open a new feature request should we revisit this for interfacing with qutip.