Measurements¶
To perform measurements several tools are available.
Scan functions¶
For basic scanning the following functions are available:
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Simple 1D scan. |
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Make a 2D scan and create dictionary to store on disk. |
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Make a 2D scan and create qcodes dataset to store on disk. |
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Perform a very fast 2d scan by varying two physical gates with the AWG. |
For more advanced measurements, write your own data acquisition loop.
Plotting data¶
For plotting a qcodes.DataSet one can use
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Plot a dataset to matplotlib figure window |
To automatically copy a plotted figure to PowerPoint one can add a button:
Create a button on a matplotlib figure to copy data to PowerPoint slide. |
Parameter viewer¶
The ParameterViewer widget allow to view and set numeric parameters of instruments. To start the ParameterViewer pass the instruments to be monitored as the first argument.
parameter_viewer = qtt.gui.parameterviewer.ParameterViewer([gates, keithley1], start_timer=True)
parameter_viewer.setGeometry(100,100, 400, 800)
Simple class to show qcodes parameters |
VideoMode¶
The videomode tool can create fast charge stability diagrams using a 1D or 2D sawtooth wave. For more information see the code or the example notebooks.
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Controls the videomode tool. |
Data browser¶
The data browser can be used to inspect recorded data.
Live plotting¶
Live plotting is done using a qcodes.QtPlot
window. The window can be setup with:
Create liveplot window and parameter widget (optional) |
Named gates¶
The VirtualDAC
object can translate gate names into the proper channels of a DAC (or multiple DACs).
This is convenient because gate names are easier to work with than a number. Also when a device is controlled with multiple DACs.
This class maps the dacs of IVVI('s) to named gates. |
Measurement control¶
A simple GUI to abort running measurements without interfering with the instrument communication.
Simple control for running measurements |
Virtual gates¶
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A virtual gate instrument to control linear combinations of gates. |
Storing the system state¶
To store the system state one can store the station.snapshot()
. In order to restore the state,
it is often sufficient for spin-qubits to restore the DAC values.
Copying data to Powerpoint¶
To copy a dataset or a figure window to Powerpoint, including the scan metadata one can use:
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Add slide based on dataset to current active Powerpoint presentation. |
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Add slide to current active Powerpoint presentation. |