QuESTlink – Mathematica embiggened by a hardware-optimised quantum emulator

We introduce QuESTlink, pronounced 'quest link', an open-source Mathematica package which efficiently emulates quantum computers. By integrating with the Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit (QuEST), QuESTlink offers a high-level, expressive and usable interface to a high-performance, hardware-accelerated emulator. Requiring no installation, QuESTlink streamlines the powerful analysis capabilities of Mathematica into the study of quantum systems, even utilising remote multi- core and GPU hardware. We demonstrate the use of QuESTlink to concisely and efficiently simulate several quantum algorithms, and present some comparative benchmarking against core QuEST