Based on reading how the Fock backend implements shots, I have crudely implemented shots with Mr. Mustard by just running a very large for loop.
Here is my implementation: https://github.com/gravityshouldbenaut/MrMustard/blob/main/testofgaussiangates.py
Is there a better way to specify shots within Mr. Mustard? I feel like this isn’t exactly analogous to what the real photonic devices do.
Hi @Samarth_Sandeep.
MrMustard doesn’t have a way to output the samples since the outcome of a measurement only outputs the measurement probabilities.
Maybe section 5 of the readme can help. I’m not sure if your code does exactly what you expect it to do but it’s probably your best option.
Thanks for the help! Yeah the efficiency bounds look promising https://mrmustard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code/api/mrmustard.lab.ThresholdDetector.html but that still does not seem to be analogous to shots.
Hi @CatalinaAlbornoz, thanks for confirming that. Good luck with the planning for QHack! It’s looking to be very awesome 