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 in NumPy and
TensorFlow, each targeting specialized uses; and (iii) an engine which can
compile Blackbird programs on various backends, including the three built-in
simulators, and -- in the near future -- photonic quantum information
processors. The library also contains examples of several paradigmatic
algorithms, including teleportation, (Gaussian) boson sampling, instantaneous
quantum polynomial, Hamiltonian simulation, and variational quantum circuit
optimization.

介绍了 Strawberry Fields 开源量子编程体系结构，它使用 Python 语言，适用于设计，模拟，优化和量子计算机的连续变量电路。该平台包括三个主要组成部分：使用 Blackbird 编程的 API，三种虚拟量子计算机后端和一个可以在各种后端上编译 Blackbird 程序的引擎，同时包含几个典型算法的示例。