🔷 Google Cirq Basics
Master Google's flexible quantum computing framework for NISQ devices
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0 / 5 completed🌟 What is Cirq?
Cirq is Google's open-source Python framework for creating, editing, and executing quantum circuits on near-term quantum computers. Designed with flexibility and hardware awareness in mind, Cirq excels at NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) algorithms and provides direct control over gate timing and device constraints.
⚡ Why Choose Cirq?
Built by the team behind Google's quantum supremacy experiment, Cirq offers low-level control over circuit execution, native support for parameterized gates, and seamless integration with Google Quantum hardware. It's ideal for researchers and developers who need fine-grained control over quantum operations.
🎯 Key Features
Pythonic, composable circuits
Optimized for near-term devices
Access to Sycamore processors
Gate scheduling & timing
Realistic error simulation
Symbolic circuit parameters
Hardware-specific constraints
Circuit compilation & routing
🔄 Cirq vs Qiskit
Cirq Strengths
- • Fine-grained gate timing control
- • Native parameterized circuits
- • Hardware-aware compilation
- • Moment-based structure
- • Clean, minimal API
Best For
- • NISQ algorithm development
- • Variational quantum circuits
- • Google hardware targeting
- • Research & experimentation
- • Custom gate implementations