Strawberry Fields Documentation
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Strawberry Fields is a full-stack Python library for designing,
optimizing, and utilizing photonic quantum computers.
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:name: Using SF
:link: introduction/introduction.html
:description: Learn how to interact with a photonic quantum computer
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:name: Developing
:link: development/development_guide.html
:description: How you can contribute to Strawberry Fields
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:name: API
:link: code/sf.html
:description: Explore the Strawberry Fields API
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Features
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* Execute photonic quantum algorithms directly on `Xanadu's next-generation quantum hardware
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* `High-level functions `__ for **solving
practical problems** including **graph and network optimization**, **machine learning**, and
**chemistry**
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* Includes a suite of world-class simulators—based on cutting edge algorithms—to compile and
simulate photonic algorithms
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* `Train and optimize
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your quantum programs with our end-to-end differentiable TensorFlow backend
How to cite
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If you are doing research using Strawberry Fields, please cite our papers:
Nathan Killoran, Josh Izaac, Nicolás Quesada, Ville Bergholm, Matthew Amy, and Christian Weedbrook. "Strawberry Fields: A Software Platform for Photonic Quantum Computing", `Quantum, 3, 129 `__ (2019).
Thomas R. Bromley, Juan Miguel Arrazola, Soran Jahangiri, Josh Izaac, Nicolás Quesada, Alain Delgado Gran, Maria Schuld, Jeremy Swinarton, Zeid Zabaneh, and Nathan Killoran. "Applications of Near-Term Photonic Quantum Computers: Software and Algorithms", `arxiv:1912.07634 `__ (2019).
Support
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- **Source Code:** https://github.com/XanaduAI/strawberryfields
- **Issue Tracker:** https://github.com/XanaduAI/strawberryfields/issues
If you are having issues, please let us know by posting the issue on our Github issue tracker.
To chat directly with the team designing and building Strawberry Fields, as well as members of our community—ranging from quantum computing researchers, to students, to those just interested in being a part of a rapidly growing industry—you can join our `discussion forum `_ and `Slack channel `_.
For more details on contributing or performing research with Strawberry Fields, please see
:ref:`research`.
.. We have a mailing list located at: support@xanadu.ai
License
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Strawberry Fields is **free** and **open source**, released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
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:caption: Using Strawberry Fields
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introduction/introduction
introduction/photonic_hardware
introduction/circuits
introduction/ops
introduction/states
introduction/data
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:caption: Development
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development/development_guide
development/migration_guides
development/research
development/release_notes.md
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:caption: API
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code/sf
code/sf_apps
code/sf_backends
code/sf_compilers
code/sf_circuitdrawer
code/sf_decompositions
code/sf_engine
code/sf_io
code/sf_ops
code/sf_parameters
code/sf_program
code/sf_program_utils
code/sf_plot
code/sf_tdm
code/sf_utils