The package is designed for those within the quantum information community who typeset quantum circuits. Based off the xy-pic package, qcircuit contains a list of macros designed to help users speedily generate circuits.

qcircuit was originally written by Bryan Eastin and Steven Flammia while graduate students at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico, USA. Recently, some students from this same university have expressed an interest in rebooting the project to add enhancements and other features needed by the quantum information community.

The author is Travis L. Scholten. The package is Copyright © 2014 Travis L. Scholten.