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.

🚀 Install

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📚 Tutorials

Hands-on notebooks

💬 Community

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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.

Quantum Device Design

QDesign

Quantum Device Components

Core Classes

Quantum Renderer

Renderer Base

Quantum Analysis

Core analysis bases

Community

Community Discord

Fastest way to reach maintainers and the broader community.

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Qiskit Slack #metal

Former main community workspace, being replaced by Discord.

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Quantum Device Workshop (QDW)

Annual workshop hosted at UCLA/USC.

QDW site

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Quantum Device Consortium (QDC)

Community organization stewarding Quantum Metal.

QDC website

QDC Discord

Note

Rebrand in progress: Qiskit Metal → Quantum Metal. The PyPI package is quantum-metal (v0.5+; current: v0.7.0). A future release (target v0.8–v1.0) will rename the import path from qiskit_metal to quantum_metal. import qiskit_metal raises a FutureWarning — silence it with QISKIT_METAL_SUPPRESS_RENAME_WARNING=1. See Installation and Migrating to v0.7.0 (lite-by-default install).