CITATION.cff

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preferred-citation:
  type: article
  authors:
    - family-names: Gidney
      given-names: Craig
  title: 'Stim: a fast stabilizer circuit simulator'
  journal: Quantum
  year: 2021
  month: 7
  volume: 5
  start: 497
  issn: 2521-327X
  url: https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2021-07-06-497
  publisher:
    name: >-
      Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den
      Quantenwissenschaften

title: Stim
abstract: >-
  Stim is a tool for high performance simulation and analysis of quantum
  stabilizer circuits, especially quantum error correction (QEC) circuits.
authors:
  - family-names: Gidney
    given-names: Craig
version: 1.14.0
date-released: 2024-09-24
url: https://github.com/quantumlib/stim
repository-code: https://github.com/quantumlib/stim
license: Apache-2.0
type: software
identifiers:
  - description: The GitHub repository for Stim
    value: https://quantumai.google/Stim
    type: url
  - description: PyPI project for Stim
    value: https://pypi.org/project/Stim
    type: url
keywords:
  - algorithms
  - API
  - application programming interface
  - C++
  - Clifford gates
  - Clifford operations
  - high performance
  - open-source software
  - physics
  - Python
  - QEC
  - quantum
  - quantum algorithms
  - quantum circuits
  - quantum computing
  - quantum error correction
  - quantum error decoder
  - quantum gates
  - quantum programming
  - quantum simulation
  - quantum state
  - qubit
  - science
  - SDK
  - simulation
  - simulator
  - software
  - software development toolkit
  - stabilizer circuits