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cuQuantum SDK: A High-Performance Library for Accelerating Quantum Computing Simulations
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Welcome to the cuQuantum SDK documentation!

**NVIDIA cuQuantum SDK** is a set of high-performance libraries and tools for accelerating 
quantum computing simulations at both the circuit and device level by orders of magnitude. 
It consists of three major components:

  * cuDensityMat: a high-performance library for quantum dynamics equation solvers
  * cuStateVec: a high-performance library for state vector quantum simulators
  * cuTensorNet: a high-performance library for tensor network computations

In addition to C APIs, cuQuantum also provides Python APIs via :doc:`cuQuantum Python <python/index>`.

NVIDIA :doc:`cuQuantum Appliance <appliance/index>` offers a containerized solution, including a distributed state vector simulator backend for 
IBM's `Qiskit Aer <https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer>`_ and a multi-GPU backend
for Google's `qsim <https://github.com/quantumlib/qsim>`_ state vector simulator.

To quickly get started with *cuQuantum* or *cuQuantum Python* installation, please refer to our :doc:`guide on Getting Started <getting-started/index>` for instructions.

.. toctree::
   :caption: Contents
   :maxdepth: 2

   Overview <overview.rst>
   Release Notes <cuquantum-sdk-release-notes.rst>
   Getting Started <getting-started/index.rst>
   cuDensityMat <cudensitymat/index.rst>
   cuStateVec <custatevec/index.rst>
   cuTensorNet <cutensornet/index.rst>
   cuQuantum Python <python/index.rst>
   cuQuantum Appliance <appliance/index.rst>
   license