The not so glorious !classical quil interpreter!

A Quil interpreter written in python 🐍

Usage

Simply run the interpreter.py file, and the console will expect input from stdin.

python interpreter.py

Use Ctrl-D to stop interpreting and output probablitites.

Additionally we have provided some quil programs for testing, in the quil_tests folder. Run the scripts like so

cat quil_tests/superdense_coding.quil | python interpreter.py

Supported instructions

You may use the following quantum gates:

• H
• X
• Y
• Z
• I
• CNOT
• MEASURE

You can declare classical memory with DECLARE and control the flow of operations with LABELs and JUMPS

(Currently) unsupported operations

DEFGATE and DEFCIRCUIT, as well as most operations on classical memory (ADD, MOV, MUL)