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Installation

Bloqade is compatible with Python 3.10+ and available on PyPI. You can install it via pip into your environment:

pip install bloqade

Bloqade and its friends

Bloqade is a Python namespace package, we officially provide several sub-packages, each of which is an eDSL for neutral atom quantum computing. The following is a list of the sub-packages in Bloqade:

Note

If you have already installed Bloqade via the instructions above, all the following subpckages are already installed with the exception of the stim eDSL which is currently experimental.

bloqade.qasm2

QASM2 and its extensions support for neutral atom quantum computing. Available via:

pip install bloqade[qasm2]

bloqade.analog

Analog quantum computing eDSL for neutral atom quantum computing (previously bloqade-python). Available via:

pip install bloqade-analog

bloqade.qbraid

Support of the qBraid cloud service as a runtime backend for retrieving noise models and running circuits.

pip install bloqade[qbraid]

bloqade.stim (Experimental)

Stim and its extensions support for neutral atom quantum computing. Available via:

pip install bloqade[stim]

Development

If you want to contribute to Bloqade, you can clone the repository from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/QuEraComputing/bloqade.git

We use uv to manage the development environment.

You can install uv via the following:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

=== 

```cmd
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"
```

Then you can install the development dependencies executing one of the following commands:

# For contributing to code
uv sync --group dev
# For contributions to documentation
uv sync --group doc
# For just getting everything mentioned above
uv sync --all-groups

Our code review requires that you pass the tests and linting checks. We recommend you install pre-commit to run the checks before you commit your changes. pre-commit is already specified as a development dependency for bloqade and once installed, you can setup pre-commit using the following command:

pre-commit install