What problem does it solve?
QuTiP provides a comprehensive Python toolkit to model, simulate, and analyze quantum systems, enabling researchers to study both unitary dynamics and open-system dissipation, measurements, and visualization without implementing bespoke solvers.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Time evolution and dynamics: sesolve, mesolve, mcsolve, brmesolve, and fmmesolve for closed, open, and stochastic scenarios.
- Quantum objects and composites: tensor products, basis states, and density matrices for multi-partite systems.
- Analysis and measurements: expectation values, entanglement metrics, fidelities, correlations, and steady states.
- Visualization: Bloch spheres, Wigner functions, Q-functions, and matrix plots to interpret results.
- Advanced methods: Floquet theory, HEOM, stochastic solvers, and quantum channels as needed for complex environments.
Quick Start
Define your system Hamiltonian and initial state, then run a time evolution with a suitable solver (sesolve or mesolve) to obtain states or density matrices.