- Oliver Brown of EPCC leads QuEST development (
v4.3+)
- Tyson Jones of QTechTheory leads QuEST development (
v1.1-v4.2)
- Mihai Duta and Simon Benjamin begin QuEST development (
v0.1-v0.9) - Anna (Ania) Brown leads QuEST development (
v0.9-v1.0)
- QuEST is an invited project to unitaryHACK 2025 with challenges #600, #594, #599, #598, #596 and #595
- QuEST is a highlighted integration on the NVIDIA cuQuantum site
- QuEST ranks 3rd in Quantum Insider's Top 63 Quantum Computer Simulators for 2024
- QuESTlink wins a Wolfram Innovator Award
- QuEST features in the final challenge of the ASC20-21 Student Supercomputer Challenge
- QuEST's whitepaper ranks 11th in Scientific Reports' Top 100 in Physics
- multi-controlled Trotter circuits
- non-unitary Trotter circuits (permitting e.g. imaginary-time evolution)
- noisy time evolution via the Lindbladian
- customisation environment variables
- restored NUMA awareness (woops)
- multi-GPU deployment
- automatic deployment
- partial tracing
- multi-qubit projectors
- distance measures
- numerical tolerance control
- cuQuantum integration
- AMD GPU support
- diagonal matrices
- MSVC (Windows) support
- all-outcome probabilities
- multi-controlled Pauli rotations
- custom phase functions
- QFT
- Trotter-Suzuki circuits
- full-state diagonal operators
- unit tests
- continuous integration
- general any-sized matrices
- general any-sized Kraus maps
- inhomogeneous Pauli channels
- multi-Pauli expectation values
- multi-target Pauli rotations
- any-controlled operations
- density-matrix inner products
- custom error handling
- CMake build
- amplitude damping channel
- density matrices
- dephasing channels
- depolarising channels
- purity calculation
- fidelity calculation
- QASM generation
- input validation
CandC++agnosticism- unification of CPU and GPU backends
- controlled axis rotations