Getting Started

Installation

The following installation steps are for people interested in using Snowflurry in their own applications. If you are interested in helping to develop Snowflurry, head right over to our Developing Snowflurry page.

Installing Julia

Make sure your system has Julia installed. If not, download the latest version from https://julialang.org/downloads/.

We officially support the latest stable release and the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) release. Any release in-between should work (please submit a Github issue if they don't), but we only actively test against the LTS and the latest stable version.

Installing the Snowflurry package

The latest release of Snowflurry can be pulled from JuliaHub and installed with the following command:

import Pkg
Pkg.add("Snowflurry")

This adds the Snowflurry package to the current Julia Environment.

Snowflurry is under active development. To use the development version, the main branch from Github can be installed instead using the following commands in the Julia REPL:

import Pkg
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/SnowflurrySDK/Snowflurry.jl", rev="main")

Installing the SnowflurryPlots package

Multiple visualization tools are available in the SnowflurryPlots package. After installing Snowflurry, the SnowflurryPlots package can be installed by entering the following in the Julia REPL:

import Pkg
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/SnowflurrySDK/SnowflurryPlots.jl", rev="main")

Typical workflow

A typical workflow to execute a quantum circuit on a quantum service consists of these three steps.

• Create: Build the circuit using quantum gates.

• Transpile: transform the circuit into an equivalent one, but with improved performance and ensuring compatibility with the chosen quantum service.

• Execute: Run the compiled circuits on the specified quantum service. The quantum service could be a remote quantum hardware or a local simulator.

Now is the time to start with Snowflurry and go over the tutorials.