Qkit - a quantum measurement suite in python

Features:

• a collection of ipython notebooks for measurement and data analysis tasks.
• hdf5 based data storage of 1,2 and 3 dimensional data, including a viewer.
• classes for data fitting, e.g. of microwave resonator data. This includes also a robust circle fit algorithm.
• extended and maintained drivers for various low frequency and microwave electronics.

Platform:

The qkit framework has been tested under windows and with limits under macos x and linux. The gui requires h5py, qt and pyqtgraph, which work fine on these platforms. The core of the framework should run with python 2.7.x/3.4+

Requirements:

Basic:

• An up to date python distribution, including the qt gui libs, numpy and scipy.
  e.g. anaconda python http://continuum.io/downloads
• h5py http://www.h5py.org/ for saving data
• pyqtgraph is required by the viewer (qkit/gui/qviewkit) : http://www.pyqtgraph.org/
• Optional: We use ipython/jupyter notebooks for the measurement scripts: http://jupyter.org
• Optional: Messages are distributed with zmq: http://zeromq.org (also used by jupyter)
• Optional: To use Zurich Instruments devices, zhinst-toolkit is required
• Optional: pyvisa in combination with pyvisa-py

Installation:

• copy the qkit archive to an apropriate place
• and add the qkit/qkit directory to your systems PYTHONPATH variable