Installation instructions#

Qibolab#

The installation procedure presented in this section is useful when you have to develop the code from source.

In order to install qibolab from source, you can simply clone the GitHub repository with:

git clone https://github.com/qiboteam/qibolab.git
cd qibolab
pip install . # or pip install -e .

Qibolab already supports the following platforms:

In the following sections we provide the specific installation instructions to be ready to use Qibolab on the platform chosen.

In order to install the dependencies for the Tiiq platform use the following command:

pip install .[tiiq] # or pip install -e .[tiiq]

Note

If you are working with the latest versions of MacOS, where the default shell is now zsh, you will need to put .[tiiq] in quotes:

pip install ".[tiiq]" # or pip install -e ".[tiiq]"

After that all you need to do to start using the Tiiq platform is the following:

from qibolab import Platform

platform = Platform("tii1q")

For more detailed applications see the Code example section.

In order to install the dependencies for the IcarusQ platform use the following command:

pip install .[tiiq] # or pip install -e .[tiiq]

After that all you need to do to start using the IcarusQ platform is the following:

from qibolab import Platform

platform = Platform("icarusq")

For more detailed applications see the Code example section.