Installation

Installing via Conda

For Python above 3.6, SQcirucit can be simply installed via Conda:

conda install -c conda-forge sqcircuit

Updating to the latest version of SQcircuit, can be done by

conda update -c conda-forge sqcircuit

Installing via pip

SQcircuit can be installed using pip, a Python package manager, via

pip install SQcircuit

To upgrade to the latest version of SQcircuit, one can execute

pip install SQcircuit -U

General Requirements

SQcircuit depends on the following Python open-source libraries:

Package

Version

Details

Python

3.6+

Version 3.6 and higher is supported.

NumPy

1.20.0+

Not tested on lower versions.

SciPy

1.7.0+

Not tested on lower versions.

QuTiP

4.6+

Quantum operators are defined in QuTip objects.

IPython

7.0+

Not tested on lower versions.