Quantum Metal (formerly Qiskit Metal)¶
Quantum Device Design & Analysis (Q-EDA)¶
Quantum Metal | Open source · Community-maintained quantum EDA
Design and analyze superconducting quantum chips with a Python API + optional GUI that plugs into your favourite EDA tools. No Qt required — works headlessly in any Jupyter notebook or plain Python script.
Research showcase: published devices and results, reproduced
Six notebooks (4.41-4.46) follow the package-mode couplings of a 10 × 10 transmon array (R. Molavi et al., arXiv:2609.22442), from an analytic estimate to a full-wave model. Further notebooks build the 17-qubit surface-code chip of the Wallraff group (ETH Zurich) with a meshed two-qubit cell, the 5-qubit Xmon processor of Barends et al., and three published iSWAP gates. Notebook list, sources and requirements: Research showcase: published devices and results, reproduced.
What is Quantum Metal?
Designing quantum devices is the bedrock of the quantum ecosystem, but it is a difficult, multi-step process that connects traditionally disparate worlds. Quantum Metal automates and streamlines this process — from layout to Hamiltonian — in a simple, open, community-driven framework.
Visual catalog: every transmon, coupler, route, resonator, termination, and lumped element shipped with Quantum Metal.
Community
Former main community workspace, being replaced by Discord.
Community organization stewarding Quantum Metal.
Note
Rebrand in progress: Qiskit Metal → Quantum Metal.
The PyPI package is quantum-metal (v0.5+).
A future release will rename the import path from qiskit_metal
to quantum_metal; no version has been set for that yet.
See Installation and Migrating to v0.7.0 (lite-by-default install).