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Getting started

New to propaq? Work through these three pages in order.

  • Installation


    Install from PyPI, pick the optional extras you need, or build the Rust backend from source.

    Installation

  • Quickstart


    Your first end-to-end propagation: build a circuit, choose an observable, and compute an expectation value.

    Quickstart

  • Core concepts


    What Heisenberg propagation means in practice, and how propaq's objects map onto it.

    Core concepts

Once you have the basics, the guides cover each subsystem in depth and the examples are runnable notebooks you can copy from.