Simulation qutrit-based quantum computing

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Hi,

I’ven been working these weekS with the devices qml.default_qutrit and qml.default.qutrit.mixed and I was wondering about how Pennylane applied this simulations. I mean, what I read when i’m searching about this devices is for example:

The default.qutrit device is PennyLane’s standard qutrit-based device.
It implements the [`Device`](https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.devices._legacy_device.Device.html) methods as well as some built-in `qutrit operations`, and provides simple pure state simulation of qutrit-based quantum computing.

But there’s no specification about how you implement the qutrits simulation. ¿Which papers inspire you? ¿Which geometrical representation did you choose?. I would really love it if I can obtain more information :heart:.

Thank you .

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Hi @MirandaCarou ,

Welcome to the Forum!

I’ve asked the person who built our qutrit simulator to get back to you next week on this.

In the meantime you can take a look at the code if you want to learn about some of the functions implemented there.

I hope this helps!