This chapter compares tensor networks and decision diagrams as data structures for classically simulating quantum circuits. It discusses their respective strengths and weaknesses, focusing on abstraction levels, desired simulation outputs, computation orders, and workload distribution. The chapter concludes with guidelines for choosing the appropriate data structure based on specific use cases.

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Tensor Networks or Decision Diagrams? Guidelines for Classical Quantum Circuit Simulation

  • Lukas Burgholzer,
  • Robert Wille

摘要

This chapter compares tensor networks and decision diagrams as data structures for classically simulating quantum circuits. It discusses their respective strengths and weaknesses, focusing on abstraction levels, desired simulation outputs, computation orders, and workload distribution. The chapter concludes with guidelines for choosing the appropriate data structure based on specific use cases.