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message: >-
  Please cite your use of qsim using the reference metadata provided here.

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  type: generic
  authors:
    - family-names: Isakov
      given-names: Sergei V.
      affiliation: Google LLC
    - family-names: Kafri
      given-names: Dvir
      affiliation: Google LLC
    - family-names: Martin
      given-names: Orion
      affiliation: Google LLC
    - family-names: Vollgraff Heidweiller
      given-names: Catherine
      affiliation: Google LLC
    - family-names: Mruczkiewicz
      given-names: Wojciech
      affiliation: Google LLC
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      given-names: Matthew P.
      affiliation: Google LLC
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      given-names: Nicholas C.
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      given-names: Michael B.
      affiliation: Google LLC
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      given-names: Kevin
      affiliation: Google LLC
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      given-names: Evan
      affiliation: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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      given-names: Erik
      affiliation: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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      given-names: Andy C. Y.
      affiliation: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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      given-names: Henry
      affiliation: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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      given-names: Gabriel
      affiliation: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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      given-names: Alan K.
      affiliation: Google LLC
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      given-names: Doug
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      given-names: Sergio
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  title: >-
    Simulations of Quantum Circuits with Approximate Noise using qsim and Cirq
  year: 2021
  date-published: 2021-11-03
  doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2111.02396
  url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02396

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title: qsim
authors:
  - name: Quantum AI team and collaborators
    website: https://github.com/quantumlib/qsim/graphs/contributors
abstract: High-performance quantum circuit simulator for C++ and Python.
version: 0.22.0
date-released: 2025-06-24
url: https://github.com/quantumlib/qsim
repository-code: https://github.com/quantumlib/qsim
license: Apache-2.0
type: software
identifiers:
  - description: The home page for qsim
    value: https://quantumai.google/qsim
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  - description: GitHub repository for qsim
    value: https://github.com/quantumlib/qsim
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  - description: Archival DOI for qsim software releases
    value: 10.5281/zenodo.4067237
    type: doi
  - description: Publication about qsim
    value: 10.48550/arXiv.2111.02396
    type: doi
keywords:
  - algorithms
  - API
  - C++
  - Cirq
  - CUDA
  - gate fusion
  - GPU
  - NISQ
  - noise modeling
  - Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum
  - Python
  - quantum
  - quantum circuit
  - quantum computing
  - quantum information
  - quantum programming
  - quantum simulation
  - quantum trajectories
  - research
  - Schrödinger equation
  - science
  - SDK
  - simulation
  - software