pyQuil makes use open source software. Without it, this software could
not have been made. For a list of third-party software included with
this distribution, see the NOTICE file.
Below is a list of software used by this distrubition that we acknowledge.
Initially named pyqpl, work on pyQuil started in June of 2016 at Rigetti Computing as a way to
make Quil easier to write and generate. The project grew out of an initial proof-of-concept by
Robert Smith (@tarballs-are-good), and was immediately and substantially grown into fuller project
by him, Will Zeng (@willzeng), and Spike Curtis (@spikecurtis).
The mathematical functionality of pyQuil started with an algebra module for manipulating Pauli operators, which was contributed by Nick Rubin (@ncrubin). With this, he authored the first larger-scale non-trivial algorithms using pyQuil, such as VQE and QAOA. The algorithms module has since been released as a separate project called Grove.
After about 300 commits, the git history was removed for release.
We give special thanks to Anthony Polloreno (@ampolloreno), Peter Karalekas (@pkaralekas), Nikolas Tezak (@ntezak), and Chris Osborn (@cbosborn) for their contributions, use, and rigorous testing of pyQuil prior to its release.