Tutorial - Simulating Quantum Stabilizer Circuits in Python with Stim
Channel: Craig Gidney
Date: 2021-03-20

Stim (https://github.com/quantumlib/Stim) is a tool for simulating quantum stabilizer circuits. This video goes over a few examples of using stim to simulate interesting stabilizer circuits.


Links:

- Stim paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02202
- Stim github repository: https://github.com/quantumlib/Stim
- Stim pypi package: https://pypi.org/project/stim/
- Stim wiki (with API reference): https://github.com/quantumlib/Stim/wiki
- Q&A: https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/

(0:00) introduction
(1:20) sample a circuit
(3:05) rep code in quirk
(4:40) rep code in stim
(11:55) adding noise
(15:20) better noise
(20:20) detectors
(26:15) detection pairing
(28:00) finish rep code
(34:00) big samples
(36:50) TableauSimulator
(38:35) teleportation
(45:00) conclusion