JuliaQ umbrella organization for Quantum

[Xiaodong Qi]

Dear all,

As supported by Julia developers in another thread, we are organizing quantum related library projects under the Julia umbrella organization, JuliaQ. A few important steps have been done over the last week, and we are ready to receive more JuliaQ developers and community projects for the initiative stage. Now, under discussion:

• The framework of operating JuliaQ projects.
• The overall roadmap of JuliaQ projects.
• The goal of the first release cycle.
• The first proposal regarding the code base.

Our libraries are likely to reach the foundations of 

• Basic representations of quantum states and operations;
• Quantum chemistry;
• Quantum Lindblad dynamics and open quantum systems;
• Quantum tensor network (matrix product states) and many-body physics;
• Quantum information and computation;
• Quantum measurement and control...

More will come depending on our members and the Julia community. You are welcome to join us through our website at http://juliaq.github.io/. Thank you for your contributions!

Regards,

Qi and JuliaQ fellows

[John Myles White]

I think it might be a good idea to call the org JuliaQuantum rather than JuliaQ. I understand the desire for brevity, but think that JuliaQ is basically uninterpretable.

 -- John

[Xiaodong Qi]

I did give JuliaQuantum as an option for the org name, but more votes for JuliaQ from the org's initiative members when we decided... We will certainly be able to make a switch if more supports come. Thank you, John. 

[Stefan Karpinski]

I agree with John – the cultural tendency in the Julia project as a whole is for clear, obvious names like JuliaQuantum rather than JuliaQ. You don't have to type org names very often.

[Xiaodong Qi]

Issue regarding the org's name opened as an issue here: https://github.com/JuliaQ/JuliaQ.github.io/issues/5. I will do the collection shortly. Thanks.

[Xiaodong Qi]

So, org name changed to JuliaQuantum. LInks are broken, I repost the correct message as below: 

Dear all,

As supported by Julia developers in another thread, we are organizing quantum related library projects under the Julia umbrella organization, JuliaQuantum. A few important steps have been done over the last week, and we are ready to receive more JuliaQuantum developers and community projects for the initiative stage. Now, under discussion:

• The framework of operating JuliaQuantum projects.
• The overall roadmap of JuliaQuantum projects.

• The goal of the first release cycle.
• The first proposal regarding the code base.

Our libraries are likely to reach the foundations of 

• Basic representations of quantum states and operations;
• Quantum chemistry;
• Quantum Lindblad dynamics and open quantum systems;
• Quantum tensor network (matrix product states) and many-body physics;
• Quantum information and computation;
• Quantum measurement and control...

More will come depending on our members and the Julia community. You are welcome to join us through our website at http://juliaquantum.github.io/. Thank you for your contributions!

[Stefan Karpinski]

Excellent. Very nice looking site and exciting content too.

[Iain Dunning]

Cool stuff. Hope Blake Johnson has seen this, AFAIK he has written most quantum Julia code so far (e.g. https://github.com/BBN-Q )

[Xiaodong Qi]

Good catch. Yes, he is actually in the org :)