Alexandru,

Welcome!

> My name is Alexandru Gheorghiu, I am a second year student at the
> Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Sciences part of the
> "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania. I was very interested
> in the Symbolic Quantum Computing project and I have a few questions:

Great!  There is a lot of intersting work to do on this part of sympy
and we are looking for solid proposals.

> 1) Does the project imply the development of an emulator for a quantum
> computer (and a quantum programming language similar to QCL
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_programming#Quantum_computing_language)
> , with quantum registers and gates or these basic components are
> already implemented and it's more about developing it further?

At some level we are making sympy+python a QCL.  The core of this is
already done and working quite well, but there is a ton left to do.
Have you looked at the ideas page:

https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2011-Ideas

Have you done any work in quantum computing?  There are a number of
ideas there, but the work will require a solid knowledge of quantum
theory and quantum information science.  What specific topics are of
interest to you.

> 2) Where can I find a documentation about what has already been
> implemented for the symbolic quantum computing library?

Unfortunately we don't have much in terms of documentation yet (we are
working on it).  The best thing to do is to download sympy and start
to play with it.  Also, for learning quantum computing, I highly
recommend Mermin's book:

http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computer-Science-David-Mermin/dp/0521876583

Cheers,

Brian

> Thank you!
>
> Respectfully,
> Alexandru Gheorghiu
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