General Requirements

scqubits depends on the following Python open-source libraries:

Package	Version		Details
Python	3.7+		Version 3.7 and higher is supported.
pathos | | Required for multiprocessing
NumPy | 1.14.2+ | Not tested on lower versions.
SciPy	1.1.0+		Not tested on lower versions.
Matplotlib	3.0.0+		Some plotting does not work on lower versions.
QuTiP	4.3+		Needed for composite Hilbert spaces.
Cython	0.28.5+		Required by QuTiP
tqdm	4.0+		Needed for display of progress bar
sympy	1.7.1+		Needed for custom circuit analysis

The following packages are optional:

Package	Version	Details
ipywidgets	7.5+	For use of the interactive explorer
h5py	2.10+	Needed for writing data to h5 file
pytest	5.3+	For running the test suite.
matplotlib-label-lines	0.3.6+	For smart labelling of matrix element plots

Warning

For Apple M1 and M2 machines with ARM64 architecture, scqubits is only compatible with SciPy < 1.7.0, >=1.7.3, in addition to the requirements listed above. Please make sure compatible versions of these libraries are installed. Alternatively, create a conda environment for x86 architecture, where additional constraints does not apply.