Installation

We strongly recommend using a virtual environment so that the system Python remains untouched.

You can create a conda virtual environment as follows:

conda create --name quaccatoo-env python qutip matplotlib lmfit
conda activate quaccatoo-env

OR

You can use a native Python venv (you’ll need pip as well)

python -m venv quaccatoo-env
source quaccatoo-env/bin/activate

After the virtual environment has been setup, clone the repository and run from inside the local cloned folder

pip install .

To check the installation, you can run

pip show quaccatoo

Notebooks can be the most convenient way of running QuaCCAToo (but definitely not the most efficient for long simulations). If you wish to use them, you can also install jupyter in you conda environment.

pip install jupyter