What problem does it solve?
QuTiP provides a robust, Python-based toolkit to model and simulate quantum dynamics for open and closed systems, enabling researchers to analyze dissipative processes, coherence, and measurement scenarios with reliable numerical solvers.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Time evolution solvers: sesolve, mesolve, mcsolve, brmesolve, fmmesolve, and stochastic variants for a wide range of quantum dynamics.
- Density matrices and Liouvillians: construct Hamiltonians, collapse operators, and Liouvillians for both unitary and dissipative evolution.
- Educational and research workflows: tutorials, references, and ready-made models for quantum optics, cavity QED, Jaynes-Cummings, and spin systems.
- Visualization and analysis: built-in tools and interfaces for spectra, entanglement measures, and phase-space representations.
Quick Start
Run a basic sesolve example to evolve a simple qubit under a driven Hamiltonian.