Amit, Thanks for your interest. While I am very much interested in seeing the quantum computing capabilities of SymPy improve, I think this particular proposal is out of scope for the project.
* The material is advanced enough that there is no one of the SymPy team that would be capable to mentoring this project. I am probably the closest (Physics professor, focusing on quantum mechanics), but I have absolutely no background in this stuff. This point is extremely important because we have found that perhaps the most important ingredient for a successful GSoC experience is an active mentor who has a deep understanding of the material. * The material is specialized enough that I don't think it belongs in SymPy, even if we had a mentor for it. Honestly, even the general quantum computing stuff already borders on being too specialized for SymPy. Were I to do it again today, I would probably make the quantum computing stuff a separate package. Oh, well. Given these two factors, I think the best path forward for you is to develop a separate package for topological quantum computing that uses SymPy, but is separate. That is one of the great things about SymPy - you can easily extend it in separate projects/packages. I know that does't help you get GSoC funding for this though :( Cheers, Brian On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Amit <bitsjamada...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello , > I am Amit. I would like to discuss the implementation of modular > tensor categories for realization of Topological Quantum Computation. In > Topological Quantum Computation we use anyon braiding (which develops a > phase) to construct quantum gates which are nothing but unitary transforms. > The entire process of anyon braiding can be mathematically modeled by > representation of modular tensor categories. I have attached the article > through which I have gone through for understanding the implementation in > CAS. In addition to what is already present, most of the work is on > matrices. The 2 Vect spaces are isomorphic to whole numbers, 1 cells are > represented by matrices and 2 cells are represented by inner matrices (or 2 > matrices) i.e., matrices inside matrices. Most of the implementation is by > using the properties of matrices and extending the present implementation of > matrices. The implementation then tested the Fibonacci model by mentioning > the fusion rules. I would like add this functionality to Sympy and if > possible carry it out as a part of GSoC 2014. According to my understanding > the implementation is mostly mathematical but the physical extension is to > TQC by testing the Fibonacci model. I request the community to comment on > this. Thanks. > > File : > http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3Ac9b6eaf8-29d4-4637-a576-5a35d3c957bb/datastreams/THESIS01 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/281d1065-f0e0-40bc-ab6b-60fccede626c%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Brian E. Granger Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo bgran...@calpoly.edu and elliso...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAH4pYpSb0VPMvvV52hHnSq2S_vntDTqZgJY%2BRSvOyqNd33or8g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
