Modifying Settings of scqubits

User Accessible Parameters

scqubits has a few internal parameters that can be changed by the user:

Setting	Options	Description
FILE_FORMAT	FileType.h5, FileType.csv	Switches between supported file formats for writing data to disk.
PROGRESSBAR_DISABLED	True / False	Switches display of progressbar on/off.
AUTORUN_SWEEP	True / False (default: True)	Whether to generate ParameterSweep immediately upon initialization
DISPATCH_ENABLED	True / False (default: True)	Whether to use central dispatch system
MULTIPROC	str	‘pathos’ (default) or ‘multiprocessing’
NUM_CPUS	int	Number of cores to be used in parallelization (default: 1)
FUZZY_SLICING	True / False (default: False)	Whether to enable approximate value-based slicing
FUZZY_WARNING	True / False (default: True)	Whether to warn user about use of approximate values in slicing

Users can also set up units of the energy scales. This is discussed in the Units section of the user guide.

Note

The DEFAULT_ENERGY_UNIT setting is no longer used - see Units for information on how to set energy units.

Example: Changing Settings

Modifying the settings is simple, for example:

scqubits.settings.PROGRESSBAR_DISABLED = True