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  • Welcome
  • Quickstart
  • User Guide
    • Master the QuantumLayer
    • Master the output types and sizes
    • Mixing gates and interferometers
    • Send your code to simulators or QPUs
    • Specific algorithms
    • Migration guide
      • Angle Encoding and Amplitude Encoding
      • Computation Spaces
      • Feedforward Circuits
      • Grouping Guide
      • Photonic Kernel Methods
      • QuantumLayer Essentials
      • Measurement Strategy Guide
      • Migration guide
      • Quantum Bridge (Qubit ↔ Merlin)
      • MerlinProcessor User Guide
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User Guide

Here are a few pages to guide you through your MerLin usage.

Master the QuantumLayer

QuantumLayer essentials

QuantumLayer essentials

The essentials for using MerLin's main module: the QuantumLayer.

IntroductionQuantumLayerOverview
Angle and Amplitude Encoding

Angle and Amplitude Encoding

Introduction to these two encoding strategies and their tradeoffs.

EncodingsComparisonAmplitudeAngle

Master the output types and sizes

Measurement Strategy Guide

Measurement Strategy Guide

An overview of the measurement strategies in MerLin.

IntroductionMeasurementStrategyOverview
Computation Spaces Guide

Computation Spaces Guide

An overview of the computation spaces in MerLin.

IntroductionMeasurementStrategyOverview
A guide to grouping

A guide to grouping

Master the output sizes of your QuantumLayers with grouping.

IntroductionGroupingOverview

Mixing gates and interferometers

From qubits to photons

From qubits to photons

Introduction of the QuantumBridge: the MerLin object that allows you to combine photonic and gate-based circuits.

IntroductionQuantumBridgeQubitsGate-based

Send your code to simulators or QPUs

Remote execution

Remote execution

Guide on how to run your models on a simulator or QPU.

IntroductionMerLinProcessorRemoteQPUOverview

Specific algorithms

Feedforward circuits

Feedforward circuits

Circuits using partial measurements to determine the configuration of the downstream circuit.

IntroductionPartialMeasurementFeedForwardBlockOverview
Kernels

Kernels

Introduction to photonic quantum kernel algorithms.

IntroductionTutorialsKernels

Migration guide

Migration Guide

Migration Guide

Deprecated methods and their replacement.

MigrationGuide
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