Citing QuTiP

QuTiP is developed by many physicists in their spare time. As with anyone in academics, their life and death is determined entirely by citations and paper count. Therefore, if you find QuTiP useful, please consider citing this project. This will also help us secure future funding supporting the development of this software.

If you do use QuTiP in a publication, please take a few minutes and let us know by posting on the QuTiP message board. We would love to hear how QuTiP is being used as a research tool.

Quantum Toolbox in Python

QuTiP - Main Package

• N. Lambert, E. Giguère, P. Menczel, B. Li, P. Hopf, G. Suárez, M. Gali, J. Lishman, R. Gadhvi, R. Agarwal, A. Galicia, N. Shammah, P. Nation, J. R. Johansson, S. Ahmed, S. Cross, A. Pitchford, F. Nori: “QuTiP 5: The Quantum Toolbox in Python.”, arXiv:2412.04705 (2024). [PDF] [Link] [arXiv]
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• J. R. Johansson, P. D. Nation, F. Nori: “QuTiP 2: A Python framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems.”, Comp. Phys. Comm. 184, 1234 (2013). [PDF] [Link] [arXiv]
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• J. R. Johansson, P. D. Nation, F. Nori: “QuTiP: An open-source Python framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems.”, Comp. Phys. Comm. 183, 1760–1772 (2012). [PDF] [Link] [arXiv]
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QIP - Quantum Information Processing

• B. Li, S. Ahmed, S. Saraogi, N. Lambert, F. Nori, A. Pitchford, N. Shammah: “Pulse-level noisy quantum circuits with QuTiP.”, (2022). [PDF] [Link] [arXiv]
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HEOM

• N. Lambert, T. Raheja, S. Cross, P. Menczel, S. Ahmed, A. Pitchford, D. Burgarth, F. Nori: “QuTiP-BoFiN: A bosonic and fermionic numerical hierarchical-equations-of-motion library with applications in light-harvesting, quantum control, and single-molecule electronics.”, Phys. Rev. Research 5, 013181 (2023). [PDF] [Link] [arXiv]
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Quantum Toolbox in Julia

QuantumToolbox.jl

• A. Mercurio, Y.-T. Huang, L.-X. Cai, Y.-N. Chen, V. Savona, F. Nori: “QuantumToolbox.jl: An efficient Julia framework for simulating open quantum systems.”, arXiv:2504.21440 (2025). [PDF] [Link] [arXiv]
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HierarchicalEOM.jl

• Y.-T. Huang, P.-C. Kuo, N. Lambert, M. Cirio, S. Cross, S.-L. Yang, F. Nori, Y.-N. Chen: “An efficient Julia framework for hierarchical equations of motion in open quantum systems.”, Commun. Phys. 6, 313 (2023). [PDF] [Link] [arXiv]
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