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Qiskit Nature is an open-source framework which supports solving quantum mechanical natural science problems using quantum computing algorithms. This includes finding ground and excited states of electronic and vibrational structure problems, measuring the dipole moments of molecular systems, solving the Ising and Fermi-Hubbard models on lattices, and much more.

Qiskit Nature Design

The code comprises various modules revolving around:

Installation

We encourage installing Qiskit Nature via the pip tool (a python package manager).

pip install qiskit-nature

pip will handle all dependencies automatically and you will always install the latest (and well-tested) version.

If you want to work on the very latest work-in-progress versions, either to try features ahead of their official release or if you want to contribute to Qiskit Nature, then you can install from source. To do this follow the instructions in the documentation.

Optional Installs

To run chemistry experiments using Qiskit Nature, it is recommended that you install a classical computation chemistry software program/library interfaced by Qiskit. Several, as listed below, are supported, and while logic to interface these programs is supplied by Qiskit Nature via the above pip installation, the dependent programs/libraries themselves need to be installed separately.

The above codes can be used in a very limited fashion through Qiskit Nature. While this is useful for getting started and testing purposes, a better experience can be had in the reversed order of responsibility. That is, in a setup where the classical code runs the Qiskit Nature components. Such an integration currently exists for the following packages:

If you are interested in using Psi4, we are actively looking for help to get started on a similar integration in qiskit-nature-psi4.

Additionally, you may find the following optional dependencies useful:

Creating Your First Chemistry Programming Experiment in Qiskit

Check our getting started page for a first example on how to use Qiskit Nature.

Further examples

Learning path notebooks may be found in the Nature Tutorials section of the documentation and are a great place to start.


Contribution Guidelines

If you'd like to contribute to Qiskit, please take a look at our contribution guidelines. This project adheres to Qiskit's code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

We use GitHub issues for tracking requests and bugs. Please join the Qiskit Slack community for discussion and simple questions. For questions that are more suited for a forum, we use the Qiskit tag in Stack Overflow.

Authors and Citation

Qiskit Nature was inspired, authored and brought about by the collective work of a team of researchers. Qiskit Nature continues to grow with the help and work of many people, who contribute to the project at different levels. If you use Qiskit Nature, please cite the following references:

License

This project uses the Apache License 2.0.

However there is some code that is included under other licensing as follows: