Introduction

This is a pulse library that is build to make pulses that are commonly used to control spin qubits coherenly. A lot of attention is given to performance, structure and ease of use. At the moment the library only has a back-end that is suited for Keysight PXI AWG systems

Features now include:

• support for arbitrary pulse/sine wave based sequences (phase coherent atm)
• Fully multidimensional. Execute any command as a loop in any dimension.
• Short and clean syntax. No sympy.
• Native support for virtual gates
• IQ toolkit and IQ virtual channels -- Full suppport for single sideband modulation (Along with PM/AM/FM)
• High speed uploader for Keysight PXI systems which supports upload during playback.

!! keysight AWG's their waveforms need to have a length of modulo 10 !! (related to the clock of the AWG) --> segments are concatenated for this purose when uploading (e.g. upload happens in one big chunk)

Requirements

You need python3.x and a c/c++ compiler. For the c-compiler, the following is recommended

• windows: the Visual Studio SDK C/C++ compiler (tested)
• linux: gcc is fine.
• ox x : gcc or clang both work

If you want to install the upload libraries for the keysight system, you will need:

• the Keysight SD1 software
• openMP (comes by default in visual studio)

Quick start

The pulse library can be installed by cloning the library from github on your computer. Navigate in the github folder and run the following in the terminal:

	python3 setup.py install

To install the uploading backend, you need to call:

	windows compilation under development

Documentation

Documentation for the library can be found at:

https://pulse-lib.readthedocs.io

TODO

TODO list:

• Update virtual gate matrix function
• Support for calibarion arguments? -- this should be engineered well.
• HVI2 integration
• add DSP module (must also be C++)

TODO bugs and small things to fix,

• deal with names and units of the loops + setpoints variable