Questions tagged [stim]
For questions about Stim, the open source tool for high-performance simulation of quantum stabilizer circuits.
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Modifying stim simulator state by resetting the current inverse tableau not working as desired?
My goal is to run the Clifford simulation in stim where I apply Clifford gates (not neccesarily listed in the “named gates” list) e.g., random 2-qubit Clifford gates with tableau given by stim.Tableau....
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Read/Write circuit to file in Stim
I'm trying to save and load large circuits from files in Stim. For example, if I use a generated surface code from the intro notebook
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How are non-clifford gates simulated in Stim and other simulators?
I know that Clifford gates can be efficiently simulated on classical computers using tableaux. How are non-clifford gates handled? Can simulators handle 100 qubit non-clifford gates?
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Within Stim, how to trace back DEM error instructions to Stim circuit faults
If I have a line in a DEM e.g.
error(0.001) D0
is there an easy way to see which circuit faults in the original circuit contributed to that error mechanism?
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How do I perform an erasure error in stim?
An erasure error is a heralded error that completely destroys a qubit (e.g. resets it or maximally mixes it). The qubit is gone but you are told it's gone. How do I simulate this kind of error using ...
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How can I apply 2 qubit pauli operator error instead of CNOT operator in stim code?
Currently I am building up quantum error correction code with stim code.
According to this paper [https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.032324], I need to make an error channel ...
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How can I visualize a stim circuit?
Is there any function I can call to visualize a stim circuit?
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Is there any implementation in `stim` that takes correlated edges into consideration?
When we decode X/Z graph separately, we didn't consider about the correlation between this two graphs. There are some techniques like reweighting X/Z graphs recursively to explain the correlation ...
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Adding dephasing to stim's generated surface code circuits
I'm trying to find the threshold for dephasing error on a surface code. I've used the stim.Circuit.generated("surface_code_unrotated_memory_x") function to generate a surface code lattice. ...
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extracting the Pauli error on the data qubits at the end of circuit in stim
Let's say one implements the following circuit in stim from the stim tutorial:
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How do I specify the coordinates of dephasing errors in the surface code using Stim
I am trying to find the threshold of a surface code for dephasing error using pymatching and stim. I am unable to apply the Z_ERROR onto the qubits using the given format since a surface code will ...
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Is there any reasonably efficient way of performing qudit circuit simulations using Stim?
Is there any reasonably efficient way of performing qudit circuit simulations using Stim? If so, then how much worse would the computational complexity scale?
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nonlinear behavior of $1/\Lambda$ in surface code simulations around threshold
I am simulating the dependence of $\Lambda$, as defined in google's Exponential suppression of bit or phase errors with cyclic error correction paper as a function of physical error rate.
The $\Lambda$...
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when calculating code thresholds, why do we need to take a number of rounds that scales with the code distance?
In stim's error corretion example here, and in pymatching's toric code example here, the threshold calculation involves taking a number of rounds that scales as the code distance. Why is that the ...
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How do I add an MPP operation to a stim circuit using append_operation?
How should I use the 'MPP' gate with append_operation in stim? For example it's clear from the documentation that circuit.append_operation('MX', [1,2]) will append two X-base measurements on qubits 1 ...
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compatibility of stim's error model with conventional decoding schemes
I am working with stim's excellent code generator together with pymatching, using stim's generated error model and the glue code in the tutorial here. I am trying to understand better what the output ...
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Use stim to simulate d=3 Bacon-Shor's code
When I use stim to simulate d=3 Bacon-Shor's code, I can't find the problem with my circuits resulting in the weird DetectorErrorModel.
The initialization and stabilizer measurement circuits are as ...
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Where do lines like "error(0.00033) D0 D9 L0 ^ D7 ^ D8" come from in a stim detector error model?
I have a Stim detector error model file derived from a surface code circuit. I'm trying to understand exactly what lines like error(0.00033) D0 D9 L0 ^ D7 ^ D8 from ...
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Incorporating Idling Errors while using Stim
Is there a smart way to incorporate idling errors for a quantum error correction code using the open-source tool Stim (preferably using the tableau simulator)? I have perused the github website (https:...
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How do I initialize stim's tableau simulator to a random tableau?
I want to create a stim.TableauSimulator with a random tableau as its state. I know I can get a random tableau using ...
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Efficient Way to Create an LUT in Stim
What is the fastest and most resource-efficient way to create an LUT decoder for a quantum error correction code using Stim (https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2021-07-06-497/)?
Specfically, I am ...
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Simulating flag qubits and conditional branches using Stim
In a quantum error correcting code using flag qubits, it's common to have flag measurements that tell you it's necessary to do some extra measurements for safety. So, for example, I want to say:
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Stim: is it possible to add comments when creating a circuit?
I'm trying to create a Stim.Circuit, given a list of qubits and operations on them. Does the API support adding comments to the circuit's string representation? I've tried using ...
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Measurement bitstrings to detection event bitstrings in stim
Does Stim have exposed functionality for converting a measurement outcome string into a detection event string?
I.e. I feed stim a string of 0,1's corresponding to measurements in a circuit along with ...
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What is the meaning of "shots" and "rounds" in Stim?
I'm running simulations using Stim to get logical error rate vs. physical error rates of some quantum error correcting codes (QECC).
I looked into the documentation, but I'm confused about the meaning ...
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how to simulate toric and surface codes with stim + PyMatching
According to PyMatching's github page the package can be decode toric and surface codes. Stim's example
uses stim + PyMatching combination to get logical error rate vs physical error rate curves for ...
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Computing expectation value of a Pauli string on stabilizer states
I need some help on stim, where I'm trying to compute expectation values of Pauli strings. Hopefully I did not overlook on the documentation an implementation of ...
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How to perform encoding and syndrome measurement in stim
I can generate the encoding circuit of a stabilizer code and can read it into
stim. For example for the $[[5,1,3]]$ code :
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What is the syntax for general control gate in stim
For a stabilizer code with the stabilizers in canonical form, an encoding circuit has the form
that's a product of hadamard gates and general control gates : $H_i C_i(U_i)$. For example for
the $[[5,1,...
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How to import a generic stabilizer code in stim
I just started using stim to simulate the performance of quantum error correcting codes. I hope this is the right place to ask questions about the subject. The
example code
with the repetition code ...
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How do I pick a random Clifford operation in Stim?
I want to sample random n-qubit Clifford operations. How do I do that in Stim?
(Self-answering because this was requested when the feature already existed)
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Performing a generic single-qubit Pauli error channel in stim
I have a Pauli channel with disjoint probabilities $P_I$, $P_X$, $P_Y$, $P_Z$ (meaning $P_I + P_X + P_Y + P_Z = 1$) corresponding to Pauli errors I, X, Y, Z. Is there some way apply this Pauli ...
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'Best practices' for making Stim run as fast as possible?
I'm currently testing out an error-correction surface code circuit in Stim.
I've tried a 19x19 surface code over 10k rounds of syndrome extraction sampled 256 times, and this takes about 165 seconds. ...
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Measuring entanglement entropy using a stabilizer circuit simulator
I'm trying to simulate stabilizer circuits using the Clifford tableau formalism that lets you scale up to hundreds of qubits. What I want to do is find the entanglement entropy on by splitting my ...
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