cuPauliProp: A High-Performance Library for Pauli Propagation Quantum Simulators

Welcome to the cuPauliProp library documentation!

NVIDIA cuPauliProp is a high-performance library providing primitives for algorithms based on Pauli propagation, a component of the NVIDIA cuQuantum SDK. Functionalities of cuPauliProp are described in Overview with installation and usage guide provided in Getting Started.

Key Features

• Provides APIs for:

  • Pauli propagation through quantum circuits

Support

• Supported GPU Architectures: Turing, Ampere, Ada, Hopper, Blackwell

• Supported OS: Linux

• Supported CPU Architectures: x86_64, ARM64

Prerequisites

• One of the following CUDA Toolkits and a compatible driver are required:

  CUDA Toolkit	Minimum Required Linux Driver Version
  CUDA® 12.x	>= 525.60.13
  CUDA® 13.x	>= 580.65.06

  Please refer to CUDA Toolkit Release Notes for the details.

Contents

• Release Notes
  • cuPauliProp v0.1.0
• Overview
  • Introduction to Pauli propagation
  • Pauli basis
  • Applying gates
  • Traces
  • Truncation
  • Deduplication and sorting
  • API design
  • Citing cuQuantum
• Examples
  • Building code
  • Kicked Ising example
  • Useful tips
• API Reference
  • cuPauliProp data types
  • cuPauliProp functions