# New topic "quantum physics" under domains

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [July 30, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997 "2020-07-30T19:06:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roger-luo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roger-luo/32/3399_2.png) [@Roger-luo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Roger-luo)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/1 "2020-07-30T19:06:55Z")

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Hi I’m wondering we could have a new topic “quantum physics” under domains. According to today’s Quantum BoF, we find it’s quite inconvenient to find posts related it sometimes given we already have a group of quantum physics related packages.

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**Author:** ![cameronperot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@cameronperot](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cameronperot)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/2 "2020-07-30T19:08:31Z")

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+1 to this, it would be useful.

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**Author:** ![mfh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mfh/32/13787_2.png) [@mfh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mfh)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/3 "2020-07-30T19:09:39Z")

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👍 Completely backing up the motion. Thanks for getting the ball started @Roger-luo

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**Author:** ![mtfishman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mtfishman/32/30755_2.png) [@mtfishman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mtfishman)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/4 "2020-07-30T19:27:44Z")

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+1, would be great to have.

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**Author:** ![fekad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fekad/32/16724_2.png) [@fekad](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fekad)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/5 "2020-07-30T19:29:50Z")

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+1, I would be happy to join as well.

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/6 "2020-07-30T19:44:00Z")

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Sounds good to me! Let’s do it. We can also retroactively tag topics. Anyone want to draft the little category blurb?

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**Author:** ![Roger-luo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roger-luo/32/3399_2.png) [@Roger-luo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Roger-luo)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/7 "2020-07-30T19:48:28Z")

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Sure I could do it. Where could I write the blurb?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/8 "2020-07-30T20:02:45Z")

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You can just put it here and I’ll create the category with it.

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**Author:** ![Roger-luo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roger-luo/32/3399_2.png) [@Roger-luo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Roger-luo)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/9 "2020-07-30T20:31:46Z")

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OK, here it is:

This subcategory is for discussion around quantum physics questions and related packages.

Current packages include:

- [Yao.jl](https://github.com/QuantumBFS/Yao.jl)
- [ITensor](https://github.com/ITensor/ITensors.jl),
- [DFTK.jl](https://github.com/JuliaMolSim/DFTK.jl/)
- [QuantumOptics.jl](https://github.com/qojulia/QuantumOptics.jl)

Organization

- [QuantumBFS](https://github.com/QuantumBFS)
- [JuliaMolSim](https://github.com/JuliaMolSim)
- [JuliaPhysics](https://github.com/JuliaPhysics)
- [JuliaAtoms](https://github.com/JuliaAtoms)

There is also a more detailed list can be use a reference: [GitHub - jlapeyre/JuliaQuantumInformation: List of quantum information and computation projects in Julia](https://github.com/jlapeyre/JuliaQuantumInformation)

and all other quantum physics related packages under individuals.

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**Author:** ![jebej](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jebej/32/1784_2.png) [@jebej](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jebej)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/10 "2020-07-30T20:47:34Z")

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There was also a list made by @jlapeyre here:  
[https://github.com/jlapeyre/JuliaQuantumInformation](https://github.com/jlapeyre/JuliaQuantumInformation)

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**Author:** ![Roger-luo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roger-luo/32/3399_2.png) [@Roger-luo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Roger-luo)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/11 "2020-07-30T20:49:05Z")

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OK Thanks, I add one sentence to mention this list, since I don’t think a blurb should be too long.

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**Author:** ![fekad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fekad/32/16724_2.png) [@fekad](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fekad)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/12 "2020-07-30T21:17:08Z")

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There is another similar list here: [https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl/blob/master/Physics.md](https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl/blob/master/Physics.md)  
It is interesting mainly because it is featured on the [Julia Packages](https://julialang.org/packages/) website.

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**Author:** ![Roger-luo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roger-luo/32/3399_2.png) [@Roger-luo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Roger-luo)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/13 "2020-07-30T21:24:05Z")

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Thanks! But I think that list is not well maintained at this moment, as you can see a lot PRs are in pending and missing a lot Julia quantum packages.

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**Author:** ![mfh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mfh/32/13787_2.png) [@mfh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mfh)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/15 "2020-07-31T06:33:18Z")

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I think that would be great. There are a few threads where this surely makes sense.

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**Author:** ![mfh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mfh/32/13787_2.png) [@mfh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mfh)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 6:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/16 "2020-07-31T06:35:47Z")

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Also on the JuliaCon discord it was brought up, that maybe quantum chemistry could also fit into the domain. @Roger-luo suggested to use “quantum physics/chemistry” or plainly “quantum” as a tag (correct me if I’m misquoting @Roger-luo).

Since I feel more like a quantum chemistry guy, I wouldn’t mind broading the scope and giving it a “quantum” tag. What are other people’s thoughts?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/17 "2020-07-31T12:56:53Z")

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That sounds good to me — I’ve gone ahead and created #domain:quantum. We can continue to edit that category synopsis to fit what y’all decide here!

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**Author:** ![anon37204545](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@anon37204545](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon37204545)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-topic-quantum-physics-under-domains/43997/18 "2020-07-31T14:31:26Z")

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Thanks! I moved 2 topics to the category as they seem suitable for it. I hope more will come soon.