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Quantum Metal 0.9.0
Quantum Metal 0.9.0

Get Started

  • Quick Start
  • Installing Quantum Metal
  • Choose Your Path

Showcase & Learn

  • Research Showcase
    • 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
    • 0. Setup and the compute budget
    • 1. The qubit as a source of moments
    • 2. The qubit as a source of current
    • 3. What a flat source sees
    • 4. The package mode at the chip plane
    • 5. The hierarchy of couplings
    • 6. Is the zero a blind spot? The paddles, and the exact answer
    • 7. Breaking the symmetry: the quadrupole, and the origin
    • 8. Where the magnetic coupling is not zero
    • 9. Refining the mesh: which terms converge, which zeros stay zero
    • 10. Error bars: which terms are resolved
    • 11. The hierarchy, with error bars
    • 12. What was claimed, and what the numbers say
    • What this tells you
    • Where to go next
    • References
    • 5-Qubit Xmon Processor (Barends et al., 2014)
    • Full Physical Designs of Three iSWAP Gates
    • 17-Qubit Surface-Code Chip (Wallraff group, ETH Zurich)
    • Two-Qubit Cell: Meshing Part of the 17-Qubit Chip
  • Learn
    • Part 1: First steps
      • 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
    • Part 2: From components to chip
      • 2.01 QComponent lifecycle — use, copy, delete, rename
      • Managing variables
      • Managing pins
      • 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
      • 2.23 Modify chip options
      • Design rule checking
      • 2.22 Design 100 qubits programmatically
      • 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
    • Part 3: Render and export
      • 3.1 Introduction to QRenderers
      • 3.2 Export your design to GDS
      • 3.5 Render your design to Gmsh
      • 3.3 Render your design to Ansys
      • 3.4 How do I make my custom QRenderer?
    • Part 4: Simulate and analyze
      • 4.19 Analyse a Transmon Qubit using ElmerFEM
      • Simulate with Ansys
        • 4.01 Capacitance matrix and LOM analysis
        • 4.02 Eigenmode and EPR analysis
        • 4.03 Impedance, admittance and scattering analysis
        • 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)
        • 4.16 S21 simulation of a resonator
        • 4.17 S21 simulation and fitting of a resonator
        • 4.18 Eigenmode simulation with Ports
        • 4.21 Sweeps - Capacitance matrix
        • 4.22 Sweeps - Eigenmode matrix
        • 4.23 Sweeps - Impedance, scattering and admittance (Z S Y) matrices
        • Q3D Capacitance Matrix of a MultiPlanar Design with pyaedt
        • Running Eigenmode Simulations & EPR Analysis with QHFSSEigenmodePyaedt
        • HFSS Driven Modal Simulation of a MultiPlanar Design with pyaedt
      • From circuits to Hamiltonians
        • 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
        • 4.15 CPW Kappa Calculation
        • 4.31 Plotting Wavefunctions of the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator (LC Circuit)
        • 4.32 Transmon Analytics: Plotting Eigenvalues as a Function of Offset Charge
        • 4.34 Modeling transmon qubit Cooper-pair box Hamiltonian in the charge basis
        • Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics (cQED) and the Jaynes-Cummings Interaction Model Using the HCPB Class and QuTip
        • The Cross Resonance (CR) Gate
  • Examples
    • Component Gallery
    • Component examples
      • Single Transmon - Grounded (xmon)
      • Single Transmon - Grounded (xmon) flux lines
      • Single Transmon - Floating
      • Single Transmon - Floating with 6 connection pads
      • Single Transmon - Floating with teeth
      • Concentric Transmon
      • Interdigitated Transmon Qubits
      • QComponent - Interdigitated transmon qubit
      • Star shaped qubit
      • Charge Line
      • Josephson Junction (Dolan)
      • Josephson Junction (Manhattan)
      • Josephson Junction QComponent Demo Notebook
      • Simple CPW Meander
      • CPW Launch Pad
      • QComponent - 3-fingers capacitor
    • Reference designs
      • A.1 Reference design — Transmon with readout resonator
      • Transmon coupled to CPW resonator
      • Readout line
      • Direct Coupler (transmon-transmon)
      • Bus Resonator Coupler (transmon-transmon)
      • Tunable Coupler (MIT)
      • A.2 Reference design — Two coupled transmons
      • A.3 Reference design — Four-qubit multiplexed readout
      • A.4 Full chip design
      • A.7 Qiskit Metal tutorial for IMS 2022

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)
  • Archived Notebooks
    • Demo Notebook Demonstrating How to Test for Component/CPW Overlap
    • 4.33 Transmon Analytics
    • A.5 Launch video example
    • A.6 Hackathon exercise — South Korea 2020
    • Four Qubit Chip Design
    • Single Transmon - Floating with charge lines
    • Opening the documentation

Community & Contributing

  • Built on / with Quantum Metal
  • Videos & Education
  • Contributor Guide
  • Architecture
  • Using Quantum Metal without Qt
  • Code of Conduct
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Part 3: Render and export¶

A renderer turns a design into another representation: a GDS file, a mesh, or an Ansys project.

Renderers and GDS export¶

3.1 Introduction to QRenderers
3.2 Export your design to GDS

Meshing with gmsh¶

3.5 Render your design to Gmsh

Ansys¶

3.3 Render your design to Ansys

Writing a renderer¶

3.4 How do I make my custom QRenderer?
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    • Renderers and GDS export
    • Meshing with gmsh
    • Ansys
    • Writing a renderer