Foundations of Quantum Information Science (QIS101)

Using VSCode, JupyterLab, and IBM Qiskit

QIS101 Slides

Setup

Install uv, then from the project folder run:

uv sync

This creates a .venv with everything needed. The courseware runs on Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), and Linux.

Linux notes

Standalone .py scripts open an interactive matplotlib window via Qt (PySide6). On Linux this requires:

• Ubuntu 22.04+ / Linux Mint 21+ (or another distro with glibc ≥ 2.34) so uv sync can install PySide6.

• The Qt xcb platform plugin's system library. If a script fails with "Could not load the Qt platform plugin 'xcb'", install it once with:

  sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0

The Jupyter notebooks render plots inline and need none of the above — they run on any platform with no extra system packages.