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LabOne Q User Manual

Welcome

Welcome to the Zurich Instruments LabOne Q user manual. LabOne Q is designed for you to perform quantum experiments on the Zurich Instruments QCCS together with third party control hardware. With LabOne Q, you can control complex setups as a single machine with intuitive programming in a Python-based domain-specific language. Here, you will find resources for performing everything from basic qubit characterization experiments to complex quantum circuits.

Tip

With version 2.41, LabOne Q has been updated with lots of new functionality including Workflows, Tasks, Quantum Operations, and more. Examples of these are included in the Applications Library part of the documentation. Let us know if you'd like to learn more!

Would you like help getting started? Want a demonstration of how LabOne Q can help you accelerate your experiments? Have any questions about the code or functionality? Please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@zhinst.com and we will be happy to assist you.

How to use this manual

The manual contains a variety of information and practical examples to serve you depending on your use case:

  • The Getting Started chapters will help you begin your LabOne Q journey with installation instructions and your first experiment.
  • Functionality & Concepts covers details and explanations of the software in addition to the reference documentation. This is a good place to look if you are looking to understand, for example, what Sections are and how they are used.
  • The API Reference contains basic information about the Python classes and methods you'll use when programming your experiments. This is where to look if you need to know what arguments a function takes or what a parameter defaults to or if you are developer looking to incorporate LabOne Q into your own project.
  • Consult the Tutorials both in LabOne Q core, which are grouped with the respective topics in Functionality and Concepts, and in the Applications Library if you would like hands-on demonstrations to learn about the components of LabOne Q. They are intended help you learn and master the functionality of the software. These Learning Guides can be downloaded as Python notebooks at the top of their pages and can also be found on GitHub.
  • Our How-to Guides are experiment and application-focused examples that already assume some knowledge of the software. Many of these can be run out-of-the-box. They can be thought of as recipes from which you can build your own software and experiments. These how-to guides can be downloaded as Python notebooks at the top of their pages and can also be found on our GitHub.
  • The Release Notes are a great place to see how the software is evolving, to find new features, and to check a list of known issues.