Simplified Plotting Routines for Quantum Circuits

Rick Muller

This program takes some of the circuit tricks that Brian Granger, Aaron Meurer and Ondrej Certik first developed in Sympy and I subsequently updated.

I pulled out all of the code into a set of standalone python functions because I wanted to:

• have fewer dependencies for people to install;
• make a simpler code base to experiment with;
• separate the quantum circuit from the plotter from the simulator;
• experiment with scheduling quantum operations rather than plotting one gate in each time step.

There are lots of other tools you can do for circuit plotting.

• Qasm2circ
• Q-circuit
• The aforementioned Sympy circuit plotter.

TODO List:

• Figure out an elegant way to put multiqubit targets into the gates.
• Use multiqubit rectangles for multitarget gates, if the wires are adjacent.