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Usage

Installation

To use perceval, you can directly install the pip wheel in a virtual environment:

(venv) $ pip install perceval-quandela

Alternatively, if you are interested in contributing to the project - you can clone the project from github:

(venv) $ git clone https://github.com/quandela/Perceval
(venv) $ cd Perceval
(venv) $ pip install . # or pip install -e . for developers or pip install .[qiskit_bridge,qutip_bridge,myqlm_bridge,cqasm_bridge] to install bridges

Tutorial

At this point you can directly use Perceval. If you want to learn how to build Linear Optical circuits, manipulate state vector or run quantum algorithms remotely, you should follow the example notebooks. You can start with the Detailed walkthrough tutorial.