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# Welcome to Google Quantum AI's open-source projects

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IIRC Dave's original intent in calling the org "quantumlib" rather than "googlequantumailib" was to downplay this association. To force it to stand on its own. Having the readme open with the association kinda defeats that intent. I guess maybe it's unavoidable or maybe priorities have changed.

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That's a fair point. I tried to reduce putting "Google" everywhere but evidently missed it on the very first line. Changed in the next push.

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@Strilanc Went further and removed the title, because this page will appear under github.com/quantumlib and that page already has "quantumlib" across the top. Please let me know what you think.

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And also changed the subtitle under the org name from "Google's …" to "Quantum AI's …"

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Quantum AI and collaborators from all around the world maintain and develop
many open-source software projects on GitHub. We build best-in-class libraries
and utilities to advance applications research and error-correction research
for the future of fault-tolerant quantum computing.

## Repositories

Quantum AI's open-source projects are found in repositories under the
Quantumlib organization and elsewhere on GitHub. Our major efforts include the
following:

* [Cirq](https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq): A Python framework for

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This information is inevitably going to do out of date. It might be better to talk about themes rather than specific details. Or call out 2 highlights rather than trying to make an exhaustive list.

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Part of the problem I'm trying to solve with this is that some of the projects like TFQ and TNCO are not under github.com/quantumlib, and I haven't found any other suitable, more-or-less central place to put a list.

I realize this will need to be updated over time, but thankfully, the rate at which we create new repositories has been pretty slow.

Separately, this could list themes too. @Strilanc Do you have suggestions for themes to highlight or focus on?

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Update: I removed some of the text, shortened the descriptions, and tightened things up.

creating, editing, manipulating, and running quantum circuits on hardware
or in simulation.

* [OpenFermion](https://github.com/quantumlib/OpenFermion): An open-source
library for compiling and translating problems in chemistry and materials
science into quantum circuits.

* [Qualtran](https://github.com/quantumlib/Qualtran): A library of
blueprinted fault-tolerant algorithms and advanced resource estimation
tools used to cost out physical resource requirements.

* [qsim](https://github.com/quantumlib/qsim): A fast Schrödinger state-vector
simulator written in C++ and Python that integrates with Cirq to handle
large-scale classical simulations using vector instructions.

* [Stim](https://github.com/quantumlib/Stim): A high-performance, fast
stabilizer circuit simulator optimized for analyzing quantum stabilizer
circuits and stabilizer-based error-correcting codes.

* [TensorFlow Quantum](https://github.com/tensorflow/quantum): An open-source
framework for hybrid quantum-classical machine learning.

Other projects include:

* [Chromobius](https://github.com/quantumlib/Chromobius): A fast
implementation of the Möbius color-code decoder that approximates color
code decoding as a minimum weight matching problem.

* [ReCirq](https://github.com/quantumlib/ReCirq): A repository containing
research examples and published experiments leveraging Cirq.

* [Tesseract Decoder](https://github.com/quantumlib/tesseract-decoder): A
specialized decoder built for quantum error correction research.

* [TypedUnits](https://github.com/quantumlib/TypedUnits): A specialized
library for managing units of measurement.

* [Unitary](https://github.com/quantumlib/unitary): A library exploring
quantum computing concepts through games.

## Get started with Quantum AI open-source software!

We welcome contributions from the quantum research community! Everyone is
invited to participate in our projects. To get up to speed quickly, explore our
core software offerings below and refer to their respective README files and
other documentation.