4. Learners Guide - writing pulses with qupulse

This is a little guide through the documentation of qupulse with the idea that you as an interested person can find the materials corresponding to the desired skills.

The following steps assume that you have qupulse installed and are able to run the example notebooks.

4.1. Basic pulse writing

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Estimated time: 30 minutes for reading 60 minutes for the examples 60 minutes for experimenting

Target group:

Learning Goals: The learner is able to define a parameterized nested pulse template.

Learning Task 1: Read the concept section about Pulse Templates.

Exercise Task 1: Go through the following examples that introduce the shipped atomic pulse templates:

• Modelling a Simple TablePulseTemplate

• Modelling an Advanced TablePulseTemplate

• Modelling Pulses Using Functions And Expressions

• The PointPulseTemplate

• The ConstantPulseTemplate: Efficient constant voltage description.

Exercise Task 2: Go through the following examples that introduce the most important composed pulse templates:

• Combining Pulse Templates

• Mapping with the MappingPulseTemplate

• Multi-Channel Pulses

Exercise Task 3: Go through the following examples that introduce other useful pulse templates:

• Arithmetic with Pulse Templates

• ParallelConstantChannelPulseTemplate

• Reversing a Pulse Template

4.2. Pulse template features

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Estimated time: 20 minutes for reading 60 minutes for the examples 60 minutes for experimenting

Target group:

Learning Goals: The learner to save pulse templates to the file system. The learner can use pulse identifiers measurement windows and parameter constraints as needed. The learner is able to verify pulse and measurement windows are as intended for a given parameter set by plotting and inspecting. The learner can load pulses from a file and other valid datasources and use them as a building block in their own pulses.

Learning Task 2: Read the concept section about Pulse Storage and Serialization.

Exercise Task 4: Go through the Storing Pulse Templates: PulseStorage and Serialization example. It shows how to load and store pulse templates to disk.

Exercise Task 5: Go through the Definition of Measurements example. It shows how to define and inspect measurement windows.

Exercise Task 6: Go through the Constraining Parameters example. It shows how to use parameter constraints to enforce invariants.

Exercise Task 7: Go through the Snake Charge Scan example which shows a realistic pulse.

4.3. Hardware capabilities and limitations

This section introduces aspects of the hardware that are relevant for every experimenter.

This section is incomplete.

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Estimated time: 20 minutes for reading

Target group: People who want to use qupulse in an experiment.

Learning Goals: The learner can identify if a hardware limitation related exception that is raised is due to an error on their end and mitigate it. The learner understands capabilities of at least one type of AWGs.

Learning Task 1:

Read Instantiated Pulse: Program and How qupulse models AWGs.

4.4. Setup an experiment

This section is under construction. There is currently an outdated example /examples/_HardwareSetup.ipynb