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).