# Strawberry Fields: A Software Platform for Photonic Quantum Computing

@article{Killoran2019StrawberryFA,
title={Strawberry Fields: A Software Platform for Photonic Quantum Computing},
author={Nathan Killoran and Josh A. Izaac and Nicol{\'a}s Quesada and Ville Bergholm and Matthew Amy and Christian Weedbrook},
journal={Quantum},
year={2019}
}
• Published 9 April 2018
• Computer Science, Physics
• Quantum
We introduce Strawberry Fields, an open-source quantum programming architecture for light-based quantum computers, and detail its key features. Built in Python, Strawberry Fields is a full-stack library for design, simulation, optimization, and quantum machine learning of continuous-variable circuits. The platform consists of three main components: (i) an API for quantum programming based on an easy-to-use language named Blackbird; (ii) a suite of three virtual quantum computer backends, built…
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