Welcome to SilQ’s documentation!

SilQ is a measurement software designed to control spin-based systems. It utilizes the QCoDeS data acquisition framework.

Table of contents

• What is SilQ
  • What is QCoDeS?
  • Well then what is SilQ?
• Installation
  • Install Python
  • Install Github
  • Install QCoDeS and SilQ
  • Using SilQ
  • Setup a SilQ Experiment folder
  • Updating SilQ and QCoDeS
  • Optional setup and information
• Getting started
  • Initializing instruments
  • Initializing Layout
  • Define connections
  • Create and targeting a pulse sequence
  • Running a measurement loop
• Brief QCoDeS guide
  • Instruments
  • Parameters
  • Performing a measurement: Loop, Dataset, MatPlot
  • 2D measurement
• Concepts in SilQ
  • Main classes
  • Targeting a pulse sequence
  • AcquisitionParameter
• For developers
  • Adding a new feature/fixing a bug
  • Updating the GitHub documentation website
• In-depth guides
  • Parameter guide
  • ParameterNode guide
  • Data plotting guide
  • Pulses and PulseSequences
  • Experiment folder guide
  • InstrumentInterface guidelines
  • Saving traces
  • Storing PulseSequences
  • Analysis notebook guidelines
  • Creating IPython Widgets (IPywidgets)
  • Code snippets
  • Future guides
• Future work
  • Config specifications
  • Layout targeting specifications
  • Pulse specifications
  • PulseSequence specifications
• Frequently asked questions
  • An error has occurred and I cannot run my experiment. What do I do?
  • I think my pulse sequence isn’t programmed correctly, what do I do?
  • Where do I find information about insert thing here?
  • Can SilQ be used for our experiments?
  • Why has the QCoDeS used in SilQ diverged from the original QCoDeS?
  • How do I repeatedly measure something?
• Classes and functions index
  • Parameters
  • Pulses and PulseSequences
  • Analysis
  • Tools

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index