GraphStateSim

This is a modified repository of Simon Anders' library GraphSim, using pybind11. GraphSim is able to simulate an important class of stabilizer circuits via a graph state representation with local clifford operators.

If you find this codebase useful, please cite the original paper here.

Installation

PyPI

Install with pip:

pip install graphstatesim

Then in python, import graphsim.

Building locally

To install, run

uv build

then navigate to the dist/ folder and pip install the wheel.

uv pip install dist/*.whl

Documentation

Documentation regarding the python bindings can be found at:

https://graphsim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

License

This code is not actively supported or maintained, but pull requests for minor bug fixes will be accepted.

This is GraphSim, a library to simulate stabilizer quantum circuits.

• Author: Simon Anders, sanders@fs.tum.de, University of Innsbruck
• Version: v.10 (initial release)
• Date: 1 Feb 2005 (last change), 18 Apr 2005 (release prep)
• (c) 2005, released under GPL

For information about this package, please read

• the paper describing the algorithm: S. Anders, H. J. Briegel: Fast Simulation of Stabilizer Circuits using a Graph State Formalism quant-ph/0504117
• the documentation of the C++ library in doc/html/index.html
• the documentation of the Python bindings in doc/graphsim_py.html
• the file COPYING for the text of the GPL

If you use this paper for scientific work, please cite the paper referenced above in your publication.

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