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message: >-
  Please cite your use of Tesseract Decoder using the reference metadata
  provided here.

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preferred-citation:
  type: generic
  authors: &authors
    - family-names: Aghababaie Beni
      given-names: Laleh
      affiliation: Google LLC
    - family-names: Higgott
      given-names: Oscar
      affiliation: Google LLC
    - family-names: Shutty
      given-names: Noah
      affiliation: Google LLC
  title: 'Tesseract: A Search-Based Decoder for Quantum Error Correction'
  year: 2025
  date-published: 2025-01-01
  doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.10988
  url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10988

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title: Tesseract Decoder
authors: *authors
abstract: A Search-Based Decoder for Quantum Error Correction.
date-released: 2025-03-12
url: https://github.com/quantumlib/tesseract-decoder
repository-code: https://github.com/quantumlib/tesseract-decoder
license: Apache-2.0
type: software
identifiers:
  - description: Publication about Tesseract Decoder
    value: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.10988
    type: doi
  - description: GitHub repository for Tesseract description
    value: https://github.com/quantumlib/tesseract-decoder
    type: url
keywords:
  - A*
  - a-star
  - algorithms
  - C++
  - color code
  - QEC
  - QEC code
  - quantum
  - quantum computing
  - quantum error correction
  - research
  - science
  - software
  - surface code
  - syndrome-decoding