Tools for creating quantum circuit diagrams

Tools for creating quantum circuit diagrams Ask Question Asked 7 years, 4 months ago Modified 13 days ago Viewed 14k times 23 What tools exist for creating quantum circuit diagrams and exporting them as images? Preferably one which runs in Windows, or even better one which runs in the web browser. resource-request Share Improve this question Follow edited Oct 30, 2018 at 20:03 asked Oct 30, 2018 at 18:44 ahelwer 4,3782 2 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges Related: How to re-create the following circuit image? –  Sanchayan Dutta Commented Apr 5, 2019 at 18:43 Add a comment 8 Answers Sorted by: Highest score (default) Date modified (newest first) Date created (oldest first) 24 Depending on how involved your circuit is you could use Quantikz (written by @DaftWullie I believe) or Q-circuit by Bryan Eastin and Steve Flammia. These are tools to make circuit diagrams in TeX for papers and the like, but you can always make your TeX file just the circuit you want and save it as a pdf. Making complex and incredibly long circuits might be a bit of a hassle and would be better done in an automated tool like the one posted by Davide_sd. Share Improve this answer Follow edited Oct 31, 2018 at 17:20 answered Oct 30, 2018 at 23:26 Dripto Debroy 1,90610 10 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges 1 And remember that adobe reader has a snapshot option so you can easily convert it into an image. –  DaftWullie Commented Oct 31, 2018 at 5:58 1 It’s probably not fair to call qcircuit a predecessor as that sort of implies that quantikz is the newer, updated version. While it is newer, and mirrors much of the functionality, the two things are entirely independent. –  DaftWullie Commented Oct 31, 2018 at 6:11 Thats fair! I'll take that like out. –  Dripto Debroy Commented Oct 31, 2018 at 17:20 I love DaftWullie.. :) –  QuestionEverything Commented Feb 8, 2025 at 4:25 Add a comment 9 I'm new to the quantum world as well, but so far I've been able to draw my basic simple circuits with Qasm2Circ. It requires: latex2e with xypic (included in tetex) python version 2.3 or greater ghostscript (and epstopdf) (for creation of pdfs) netpbm (for creation of png files) Hopefully, somebody will be able to list other tools. Share Improve this answer Follow answered Oct 30, 2018 at 19:35 Davide_sd 3051 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges Do you use this in Windows? –  ahelwer Commented Oct 30, 2018 at 19:51 No, I'm using it on Ubuntu. Although, it seems there exist a version for Windows too, check out this Github repo. –  Davide_sd Commented Oct 30, 2018 at 19:54 1 If you use miktex on windows for doing the latex, then one of the tools it comes with (although you need to know to look for it) is bmeps which you can use for crating image files –  DaftWullie Commented Oct 31, 2018 at 6:01 Add a comment 9 [...] quantum circuit diagrams [...] even better one which runs in the web browser. Quirk (algassert.com/quirk) runs in browsers and can be used to create simple circuit diagrams. I use it for this purpose all of the time, though it's main purpose is to simulate circuits. Just drag the gates you want into the circuit, perhaps use the simulation results to check that everything is behaving correctly, and then take a screenshot with e.g. Windows' Snipping Tool. Most browsers also have an option to turn a canvas into an image (e.g. in firefox if you right-click on the circuit you can select 'view image' that you can then download and crop). You can bookmark the circuit to come back to it later, in case you make a small mistake. The main downside of this approach is a) it requires manual work every time, b) it produces bitmap images instead of vector images, and c) it is somewhat inflexible (e.g. you can't put operations with different controls into the same column). Example: Share Improve this answer Follow edited Oct 31, 2018 at 19:02 answered Oct 31, 2018 at 17:08 Craig Gidney 51.2k1 1 gold badge 53 53 silver badges 133 133 bronze badges Add a comment 8 Master of Science degree project developed by Joanna Patrzyk and Bartłomiej Patrzyk at AGH UST in Cracow. http://www.quide.eu/ It can simulate designed circuits by generating simulator code in C#. Runs under Windows. Available under GPLv3. IBM Quantum Experience. Its interface runs in web browser. https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/editor It can run on "real" quantum computer. Available for research purposes only. Here is the agreement: https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/terms And user guide: https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/tutorial?sectionId=full-user-guide&page=introduction Share Improve this answer Follow edited Oct 31, 2018 at 8:31 answered Oct 31, 2018 at 8:25 mpasko256 1812 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges Add a comment 6 For drawing in your browser, there is a demo of the Quantikz.jl package you can use: Various programming languages have their own circuit drawing libraries as well. For latex code probably the best choice is Quantikz, and if you are programming in Julia you can create a diagram (png or latex code) with the Quantikz.jl library. Share Improve this answer Follow edited Apr 24, 2021 at 19:10 answered Dec 19, 2020 at 22:14 Krastanov 2012 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges Add a comment 4 One of the best tools to use is the "Quantum Computing" package in Mathematica: http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/jose.luis.gomez/quantum/ Here you can just input all the useful gates directly and also completely manipulate the Circuits in a complete GUI interface. Moreover, you can also perform all the desired operations over qubits. Share Improve this answer Follow answered Nov 4, 2018 at 13:25 Siddhant Singh 1,83510 10 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges You're using Version 7? Does it have any problems with newer versions? –  AHusain Commented Nov 4, 2018 at 13:47 No, this is an old screenshot. I am using Mathematica 11.3 with this package and it works perfectly without any clash. –  Siddhant Singh Commented Nov 4, 2018 at 13:52 Add a comment 1 I have just uploaded a beta version of a web-based interface for quantikz where you can drag and drop circuit elements, and it will spit out the correct code for quantikz (or you can save the image that the preview creates). It only supports a limited subset of quantikz commands (I have no intention of writing a full tikz parser in javascript!) but I think is a good starting point for novices. Feedback (by email) happily accepted. Share Improve this answer Follow answered Feb 23 at 9:44 DaftWullie 64.4k4 4 gold badges 59 59 silver badges 148 148 bronze badges Add a comment 1 Circuit Designer is a drag and drop tool developed by PsiQuantum for this. It is designed specifically for quantum circuit diagrams and not for simulating code. The main upsides of it are that: You have complete flexibility over the canvas You can created subroutines and add gates with them You can export as vector images and bitmap images Share Improve this answer Follow answered Mar 3 at 20:01 Ian Nanez 112 2 bronze badges Add a comment Your Answer Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest Name Email Required, but never shown Post Your Answer By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our privacy policy. Start asking to get answers Find the answer to your question by asking. Ask question Explore related questions resource-request See similar questions with these tags. The Overflow Blog Open source for awkward robots Domain expertise still wanted: the latest trends in AI-assisted knowledge for... 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