Videos & Education Hub

Qiskit Metal (now Quantum Metal) has a rich set of talks and tutorials across YouTube and community channels. Below are curated links to get you started, plus a call to add your own videos.

Note

The legacy Qiskit Metal YouTube playlist targets an older version of the project, but much of the material is still useful for fundamentals. If you have updated walkthroughs, please add them here!

Call to action

• Have you recorded a tutorial, talk, or walkthrough using Metal? Open a PR and add your link to this page.

Overviews by Dr. Zlatko Minev

All slides can be found on a GitHub repo.

• QDW Beginner Track (Day 1, Sessions 2–3): Superconducting qubits 101 — making your first qubit

• More Qiskit Metal/Quantum Device Workshop (QDW) videos: https://www.youtube.com/@uclaqcsa

• Quantum Hardware Design: Energy, Circuits, and Metal (Qiskit Seminar Series)

• Superconducting Qubits: design, analysis, energy & Qiskit Metal (Berkeley)

• Qiskit Global Summer School (quantization lecture + full playlist) - Direct link to quantization lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDiiFOham6Y

• More lecture series by Minev: https://www.zlatko-minev.com/education

Community-driven tutorials

• Qiskit Metal Introduction (by Abeer, former Metal intern, now at Google)

• Legacy Qiskit Metal playlist (older version)

• Quantum Chip Design using HFSS (detailed series)

• Quantum Computer Hardware Chip Design - Qiskit Metal

• Qiskit Metal + KLayout + Blender: Rendering Tutorial

• Lab 9: Finding the cross-Kerr of a Transmon in a 3D Cavity using pyEPR in Qiskit Metal

• CPW resonator design using Qiskit Metal (video 10)

• How to use Qiskit Metal (community tutorial)

• pyEPR original video tutorials

Further reading & references

• A Review of Design Concerns in Superconducting Quantum Circuits (Levenson-Falk, Shanto, 2024)

• Minev et al., Energy-participation (EPR) quantization (see arXiv:2010.00620, and pyEPR docs)

• Minev et al., Lumped Oscillator Model (LOM) quantization (see docs and Qiskit Metal papers)

• Kjaergaard et al., Superconducting Qubits: Current State of Play, Annu. Rev. Cond. Matt. Phys. 11, 369 (2020).

• Clarke and Wilhelm, Superconducting quantum bits, Nature 453, 1031 (2008).

• Devoret and Schoelkopf, Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Information: An Outlook, Science 339, 1169 (2013).

• Wendin, Quantum information processing with superconducting circuits: A review, Rep. Prog. Phys. 80, 106001 (2017).

• Krantz et al., A quantum engineer’s guide to superconducting qubits, Appl. Phys. Rev. 6, 021318 (2019).

• Kwon et al., Gate-based superconducting quantum computing, J. Appl. Phys. 129, 041102 (2021).

• Blais et al., Circuit quantum electrodynamics, Rev. Mod. Phys. 93, 025005 (2021).

• Gao et al., Practical Guide for Building Superconducting Quantum Devices, PRX Quantum 2, 040202 (2021).

Historical office-hours & tutorial recording log (2021–2023)

Dated recordings from the original Qiskit Metal team’s live tutorial and Q&A series. Superseded as a going concern (the series is not ongoing), but many of the individual recordings are still useful references.

Date	Type	Topic
April 1	Tutorial	Introduction to Qiskit Metal
April 8	Tutorial	Overview: Qubit chip design-flow, Part 1
April 15	Tutorial	Overview: Qubit chip design-flow, Part 2
April 22	Forum	First impressions — Qiskit Metal team answers questions and invites feedback.
April 29	Tutorial	QComponents: how to use, modify, and extend the Qiskit Metal library.
May 6	Forum	Q&A — customizing Qiskit Metal designs.
May 6	Offline recordings	Analysis methods: Capacitance and frequency control, Eigenmode & Energy Participation Ratio, Energy Participation Ratio Theory, EPR Quantization with Code Example, Finish Eigenmode + Impedance Analysis, Impedance Analysis Example
May 13	Tutorial	Quantum Analysis 101
May 20	Tutorial	Introduction to the Transmon Qubit
May 27	Tutorial	Physics of the Cooper Pair Box Transmon
June 3	Tutorial	Parametric Sweeps, Github Contribution How-to
July 15	Tutorial	Energy Participation Ratio in Qiskit Metal, New Feature: LOM Analysis for Composite Systems, New Feature: Export Design to Script
Sept 23	Tutorial	Making a QComponent from Scratch
Oct 7	Tutorial	New LOM Analysis Methodology — Part 1
Oct 21	Tutorial	New LOM Analysis Methodology — Part 2
Nov 4	Tutorial	New LOM Analysis Methodology — Part 3
Nov 18	Forum	Q&A — ask anything to the Qiskit Metal team.
Jan 13, 2022	Forum	Q&A — open discussion with the Qiskit Metal team.
Jan 27, 2022	Forum	Helping users generate a custom component.
Feb 10, 2022	Tutorial	GUI Icons, Jaynes-Cummings Model, Template Options, Default Options
Feb 24, 2022	Tutorial	Flip Chip, by guest speaker Sandoko Kosen
Mar 10, 2022	Forum	Metal community feedback session.
Mar 24, 2022	Tutorial	Time Evolution for the CR Gate
Aug 4, 2022	Tutorial	Open-Source Rendering and Simulation Solution for Qiskit Metal
Aug 11, 2022	Tutorial	Qiskit Metal E21: Quantum Spice Web App — Sneak Peak
Feb 2, 2023	Tutorial	Qiskit Metal E22: Open-Source Simulation Renderers — Gmsh & ElmerFEM