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Libquantum

Libquantum is a C library quantum mechanics simulator originally focused on virtual quantum computers. It is licensed under the GNU GPL. It was a part of SPEC 2006. The latest version is stated to be v1.1.1 on the mailing list, but on the website there is only v0.9.1 from 2007.

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Libquantum is a C library quantum mechanics simulator originally focused on virtual quantum computers. It is licensed under the GNU GPL. It was a part of SPEC 2006. The latest version is stated to be v1.1.1 (Jan 2013) on the mailing list, but on the website there is only v0.9.1 from 2007.1

An author of libquantum, Hendrik Weimer, has published a paper in Nature about using Rydberg atoms for universal quantum simulation with colleagues, using his own work.2

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  1. Weimer, Hendrik. "[libquantum-users] Release of libquantum 1.1.1". Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  2. Weimer, Hendrik; Müller, Markus; Lesanovsky, Igor; Zoller, Peter; Büchler, Hans Peter (14 March 2010). "A Rydberg quantum simulator". Nature Physics. 6 (5): 382–388. arXiv:0907.1657. Bibcode:2010NatPh...6..382W. doi:10.1038/nphys1614. S2CID 54710282.
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