Optyx: A ZX-based Python library for networked quantum architectures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09648v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:45:50 GMT
• Title: Optyx: A ZX-based Python library for networked quantum architectures
• Authors: Mateusz Kupper, Richie Yeung, Boldizsár Poór, Alexis Toumi, William Cashman, Giovanni de Felice,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Optyx, an open-source Python framework offering a unified language to program, simulate, and prototype hybrid, networked systems.<n>Users create experiments that mix qubit registers, discrete-variable photonic modes, lossy channels, heralded measurements, and real-time feedback.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Distributed, large-scale quantum computing will need architectures that combine matter-based qubits with photonic links, but today's software stacks target either gate-based chips or linear-optical devices in isolation. We introduce Optyx, an open-source Python framework offering a unified language to program, simulate, and prototype hybrid, networked systems: users create experiments that mix qubit registers, discrete-variable photonic modes, lossy channels, heralded measurements, and real-time feedback; Optyx compiles them via ZX/ZW calculus into optimised tensor-network forms, and executes with state-of-the-art contraction schedulers based on Quimb and Cotengra. Benchmarking on exact multi-photon circuit simulations shows that, versus permanent-based methods, tensor network contraction can deliver speedups of orders of magnitude for low-depth circuits and entangled photon sources, and natively supports loss and distinguishability -- establishing it as both a high-performance simulator and a rapid-prototyping environment for next-generation photonic-network experiments.

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