Installing the toolkit for Qiskit

Quantum Rings SDK now offers a toolkit for seamless integration with Qiskit. To install, follow the procedure outlined below.

If you do not have Qiskit installed, you can install Qiskit by following the instructions outlined at https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/guides/install-qiskit.

Supported Qiskit version

Quantum Rings toolkit for Qiskit supports Qiskit version 1.4.5 or later. Earlier versions are not supported. You can check your current installation by executing the following command:

import qiskit
print (qiskit.__version__)

If your Qiskit installation is not 1.4.5 or later, follow the instructions in the link https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/guides/install-qiskit to uninstall older Qiskit versions and install the newer version. Please note that community versions of packages such as qiskit nature require Qiskit 1.4.5 and a Linux environment.

Checking the QuantumRingsLib version

Quantum Rings toolkit for Qiskit requires QuantumRingsLib version 0.9.0 or later. You can check your current installation using the following command.

import QuantumRingsLib
print (QuantumRingsLib.__version__)

If your version is not 0.9.0 or later, you can update QuantumRingsLib using the following command:

# for CPU only installation
pip install QuantumRingsLib --upgrade

# for GPU Enabled installation
pip install quantumrings-nvidia-gpu --upgrade

Installing the toolkit

After getting the correct version of QuantumRingsLib installed, install the toolkit as follows:

Qiskit 2.x users

pip install quantumrings-toolkit-qiskit

Qiskit 1.x users

You must install version 0.1.x of the toolkit.

pip install quantumrings-toolkit-qiskit==0.1.20

You should be good to get started!