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Quantum Metal 0.9.0
Quantum Metal 0.9.0

Get Started

  • Installing Quantum Metal
  • Quick Start
  • Built on / with Quantum Metal

Tutorials & Examples

  • Tutorials
    • 1.1 Quick start
    • 1.2 Bird’s eye view of Quantum Metal
    • 1.3 Build a 4-qubit chip
    • 1.4 Saving Your Chip Design
    • 1.5 Parametric Design: Iterate and Compare
    • 4.41 The Package Mode on Paper
    • 4.42 Four Ways to Measure a Coupling
    • 4.43 Mesh and Solve the 10 × 10 Processor
    • 4.44 Every Coupling from One Eigenmode
    • 4.45 Four Methods, One Full-Wave Model
    • 2.01 QComponent lifecycle — use, copy, delete, rename
    • 2.11 Routing 101
    • 2.12 Simple Meander
    • 2.13 Hybrid Auto and AStar
    • 2.14 Get them all with MixedRoute
    • Airbridges
    • 2.21 Design a 4 qubit full chip
    • 2.22 Design 100 qubits programmatically
    • 2.23 Modify chip options
    • Design rule checking
    • Flip-Chip Devices in Quantum Metal
    • 2.31 Create a QComponent - Basic
    • 2.32 Create a QComponent - Advanced
    • 2.33 Add my QComponent to a reusable python file
    • 3.1 Introduction to QRenderers
    • 3.2 Export your design to GDS
    • 3.3 Render your design to Ansys
    • 3.4 How do I make my custom QRenderer?
    • 3.5 Render your design to Gmsh
    • 4.01 Capacitance matrix and LOM analysis
    • 4.02 Eigenmode and EPR analysis
    • 4.03 Impedance, admittance and scattering analysis
    • 4.04 New LOM and Fluxonium Example
    • 4.05 New LOM and Two Coupled Transmon Example
    • 4.05 New LOM and Two Coupled Transmon Example with sequence
    • 4.11 Analyzing and tuning a transmon qubit
    • 4.12 Analyzing and tuning a resonator
    • 4.13 Analyzing and tuning a transmon qubit with a resonator
    • 4.14 Analyzing a double hanger resonator (S Param)
    • 4.15 CPW Kappa Calculation
    • 4.16 S21 simulation of a resonator
    • 4.17 S21 simulation and fitting of a resonator
    • 4.18 Eigenmode simulation with Ports
    • 4.19 Analyse a Transmon Qubit using ElmerFEM
    • 4.21 Sweeps - Capacitance matrix
    • 4.22 Sweeps - Eigenmode matrix
    • 4.23 Sweeps - Impedance, scattering and admittance (Z S Y) matrices
    • HFSS Driven Modal Simulation of a MultiPlanar Design with pyaedt
    • Running Eigenmode Simulations & EPR Analysis with QHFSSEigenmodePyaedt
    • Q3D Capacitance Matrix of a MultiPlanar Design with pyaedt
    • 4.31 Plotting Wavefunctions of the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator (LC Circuit)
    • 4.32 Transmon Analytics: Plotting Eigenvalues as a Function of Offset Charge
    • 4.33 Transmon Analytics
    • 4.34 Modeling transmon qubit Cooper-pair box Hamiltonian in the charge basis
    • The Cross Resonance (CR) Gate
    • Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics (cQED) and the Jaynes-Cummings Interaction Model Using the HCPB Class and QuTip
    • A.1 Reference design — Transmon with readout resonator
    • A.2 Reference design — Two coupled transmons
    • A.3 Reference design — Four-qubit multiplexed readout
    • Josephson Junction QComponent Demo Notebook
    • Managing pins
    • Managing variables
    • Opening the documentation
    • QComponent - 3-fingers capacitor
    • QComponent - Interdigitated transmon qubit
    • Demo Notebook Demonstrating How to Test for Component/CPW Overlap
  • Example Designs
    • Google style — 5-Qubit Xmon Processor (Barends et al.)
    • Wallraff group (ETH Zurich) — 17-Qubit Distance-3 Surface Code
    • Two-Qubit Cell of the 17-Qubit Chip — Mesh for Simulation (gmsh)
    • IBM-era Qiskit Metal example — Four-Qubit Chip
    • Three Published iSWAP Gates — Full Chips
    • 100-Qubit Mockup (algorithmic design, no routing)
    • Full Chip Design
    • Single Transmon - Grounded (xmon)
    • Single Transmon - Floating
    • Concentric Transmon
    • Interdigitated Transmon Qubits
    • Single Transmon - Grounded (xmon) flux lines
    • Single Transmon - Floating with 6 connection pads
    • Single Transmon - Floating with charge lines
    • Josephson Junction (Dolan)
    • Josephson Junction (Manhattan)
    • Single Transmon - Floating with teeth
    • Star shaped qubit
    • Tunable Coupler (MIT)
    • Direct Coupler (transmon-transmon)
    • Bus Resonator Coupler (transmon-transmon)
    • Simple CPW Meander
    • Transmon coupled to CPW resonator
    • CPW Launch Pad
    • Readout line
    • Charge Line
    • A.4 Full chip design
    • A.5 Launch video example
    • A.6 Hackathon exercise — South Korea 2020
    • A.7 Qiskit Metal tutorial for IMS 2022
  • QComponent Gallery
  • Videos & Education

How It Works

  • Quantum Metal Workflow
  • Quantization Methods
  • Simulation Pathways
  • GUI Navigation & Shortcuts

API Reference

  • Overview
  • QDesigns
    • QDesign
    • DesignPlanar
    • MultiPlanar
    • DesignFlipChip
    • QNet
    • Components
  • QComponents
    • QComponent
    • ParsedDynamicAttributes_Component
    • BaseQubit
    • QRoute
    • QRouteLead
    • QRoutePoint
    • CircleCaterpillar
    • CircleRaster
    • NGon
    • NSquareSpiral
    • Rectangle
    • RectangleHollow
    • Cap3Interdigital
    • CapFingerInFrame
    • CapNInterdigital
    • ResonatorCoilRect
    • CoupledLineTee
    • LineTee
    • CapNInterdigitalTee
    • TunableCoupler01
    • TunableCoupler02
    • ReadoutResFC
    • ResonatorLumped
    • LaunchpadWirebond
    • LaunchpadWirebondCoupled
    • LaunchpadWirebondDriven
    • OpenToGround
    • ShortToGround
    • RouteStraight
    • RouteFramed
    • RouteMeander
    • RouteAnchors
    • RouteMixed
    • RoutePathfinder
    • PolylineCPW
    • jj_dolan
    • jj_manhattan
    • TransmonConcentric
    • TransmonConcentricType2
    • TransmonCross
    • TransmonCrossFL
    • TransmonInterdigitated
    • TransmonPocket
    • TransmonPocketCL
    • TransmonPocket6
    • TransmonPocketTeeth
    • TunableCoupler01
    • SQUID_LOOP
    • SNAIL
    • StarQubit
    • anchored_path
  • Analyses
    • QAnalysis
    • QSimulation
    • LOManalysis
    • EPRanalysis
    • LumpedElementsSim
    • EigenmodeSim
    • ScatteringImpedanceSim
    • Hcpb
    • Hcpb_analytic
    • HO_wavefunctions
    • transmon_analytics
    • cpw_calculations
    • kappa_calculation
    • lumped_capacitive
    • Sweeper
  • QRenderers
    • QRenderer
    • QRendererGui
    • QRendererAnalysis
    • PlotCanvas
    • MplInteraction
    • ZoomOnWheel
    • PanAndZoom
    • QMplRenderer
    • AnimatedText
    • QGDSRenderer
    • Cheesing
    • QAnsysRenderer
    • QHFSSRenderer
    • QQ3DRenderer
    • QPyaedt
    • QQ3DPyaedt
    • QHFSSPyaedt
    • QHFSSDrivenmodalPyaedt
    • QHFSSEigenmodePyaedt
    • QGmshRenderer
    • Vec3DArray
  • Toolbox
    • QiskitMetalExceptions
    • QiskitMetalDesignError
    • about
    • import_export
    • math_and_overrides
    • parsing
    • layer_stack_handler
    • bounds_for_path_and_poly_tables
    • determine_larger_box
  • QGeometry
    • QGeometryTables
  • GUI
    • MetalGUI

Project

  • Roadmap
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Migrating to v0.7.0 (lite-by-default install)
  • v0.7.2 follow-on: prefer qm.gui(design) over MetalGUI(design)

Community & Contributing

  • Contributor Guide
  • Architecture
  • Using Quantum Metal without Qt
  • Code of Conduct
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