cuStateVec: A High-Performance Library for State Vector Quantum Simulators

Welcome to the cuStateVec library documentation!

NVIDIA cuStateVec is a high-performance library dedicated to operations with state vectors for expressing quantum algorithms. cuStateVec is a component of the NVIDIA cuQuantum SDK. Functionalities of cuStateVec are described in Overview with installation and usage guide provided in Getting Started.

Key Features

• Provide APIs for:

  • Gate application

  • Measurement

  • Expectation

  • Sampling

  • Qubit reordering on single/multiple device(s)

  • Logging purposes

Support

• Supported GPU Architectures: any NVIDIA GPU with compute capability 7.0 or later

• Supported OSes: Linux

• Supported CPU Architectures: x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le

Prerequisites

• CUDA® Toolkit 11.x and compatible driver r450+ (see CUDA Toolkit Release Notes).

Contents

• Release Notes
  • cuStateVec v1.2.0
  • cuStateVec v1.1.0
  • cuStateVec v1.0.0
  • cuStateVec v0.1.1
  • cuStateVec v0.1.0
  • cuStateVec v0.0.1
• Overview
  • Description of state vectors
  • Bit ordering
  • Supported data types
  • Workspace
  • Gate fusion
  • Multi-GPU Computation
  • References
• Getting Started
  • Installation and Compilation
  • Code Example
  • Useful tips
• API Reference
  • cuStateVec Data Types
  • cuStateVec Functions