diff --git a/.github/workflows/rules.yml b/.github/workflows/rules.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..177ed867
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/rules.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# A single CI script with github workflow
+name: Tests
+
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [labeled]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    if: contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-workflow') || github.event_name == 'push'
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10"]
+    uses: qiboteam/workflows/.github/workflows/rules.yml@main
+    with:
+      os: ${{ matrix.os }}
+      python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      environment: "qibotn"
+      pip-extras: "analysis,tests"
+    secrets: inherit
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6a256b3f..68bc17f9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,129 +1,160 @@
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
- __pycache__/
- *.py[cod]
- *$py.class
-
- # C extensions
- *.so
-
- # Distribution / packaging
- .Python
- build/
- develop-eggs/
- dist/
- downloads/
- eggs/
- .eggs/
- lib/
- lib64/
- parts/
- sdist/
- var/
- wheels/
- pip-wheel-metadata/
- share/python-wheels/
- *.egg-info/
- .installed.cfg
- *.egg
- MANIFEST
-
- # PyInstaller
- #  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
- #  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
- *.manifest
- *.spec
-
- # Installer logs
- pip-log.txt
- pip-delete-this-directory.txt
-
- # Unit test / coverage reports
- htmlcov/
- .tox/
- .nox/
- .coverage
- .coverage.*
- .cache
- nosetests.xml
- coverage.xml
- *.cover
- *.py,cover
- .hypothesis/
- .pytest_cache/
-
- # Translations
- *.mo
- *.pot
-
- # Django stuff:
- *.log
- local_settings.py
- db.sqlite3
- db.sqlite3-journal
-
- # Flask stuff:
- instance/
- .webassets-cache
-
- # Scrapy stuff:
- .scrapy
-
- # Sphinx documentation
- docs/_build/
-
- # PyBuilder
- target/
-
- # Jupyter Notebook
- .ipynb_checkpoints
-
- # IPython
- profile_default/
- ipython_config.py
-
- # pyenv
- .python-version
-
- # pipenv
- #   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
- #   However, in case of collaboration, if having platform-specific dependencies or dependencies
- #   having no cross-platform support, pipenv may install dependencies that don't work, or not
- #   install all needed dependencies.
- #Pipfile.lock
-
- # PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow
- __pypackages__/
-
- # Celery stuff
- celerybeat-schedule
- celerybeat.pid
-
- # SageMath parsed files
- *.sage.py
-
- # Environments
- .env
- .venv
- env/
- venv/
- ENV/
- env.bak/
- venv.bak/
-
- # Spyder project settings
- .spyderproject
- .spyproject
-
- # Rope project settings
- .ropeproject
-
- # mkdocs documentation
- /site
-
- # mypy
- .mypy_cache/
- .dmypy.json
- dmypy.json
-
- # Pyre type checker
- .pyre/
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+share/python-wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+*.py,cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+cover/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+db.sqlite3-journal
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+.pybuilder/
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+# pyenv
+#   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
+#   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
+# .python-version
+
+# pipenv
+#   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
+#   However, in case of collaboration, if having platform-specific dependencies or dependencies
+#   having no cross-platform support, pipenv may install dependencies that don't work, or not
+#   install all needed dependencies.
+#Pipfile.lock
+
+# poetry
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include poetry.lock in version control.
+#   This is especially recommended for binary packages to ensure reproducibility, and is more
+#   commonly ignored for libraries.
+#   https://python-poetry.org/docs/basic-usage/#commit-your-poetrylock-file-to-version-control
+#poetry.lock
+
+# pdm
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include pdm.lock in version control.
+#pdm.lock
+#   pdm stores project-wide configurations in .pdm.toml, but it is recommended to not include it
+#   in version control.
+#   https://pdm.fming.dev/#use-with-ide
+.pdm.toml
+
+# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow and github.com/pdm-project/pdm
+__pypackages__/
+
+# Celery stuff
+celerybeat-schedule
+celerybeat.pid
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+dmypy.json
+
+# Pyre type checker
+.pyre/
+
+# pytype static type analyzer
+.pytype/
+
+# Cython debug symbols
+cython_debug/
+
+# PyCharm
+#  JetBrains specific template is maintained in a separate JetBrains.gitignore that can
+#  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
+#  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
+#  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
+#.idea/
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..177c408f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# See https://pre-commit.com for more information
+# See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v4.4.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: check-yaml
+      - id: check-toml
+      - id: check-merge-conflict
+      - id: debug-statements
+  - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: 23.1.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: black
+  - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
+    rev: 5.12.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: isort
+        args: ["--profile", "black"]
+  - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
+    rev: v3.3.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: pyupgrade
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2546e49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[tool.pylint.reports]
+output-format = "colorized"
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+testpaths = ["tests/"]
+addopts = ["--cov=qibotn", "--cov-report=xml"]
+env = ["D:NUMBA_DISABLE_JIT=1"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index da40cc4b..aefac894 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,33 +1,30 @@
-# Installation script for python
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-import os
 import re
+import pathlib
 
+HERE = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.absolute()
 PACKAGE = "qibotn"
 
 
 # Returns the qibotn version
-def get_version():
-    """ Gets the version from the package's __init__ file
-    if there is some problem, let it happily fail """
-    VERSIONFILE = os.path.join("src", PACKAGE, "__init__.py")
-    initfile_lines = open(VERSIONFILE, "rt").readlines()
-    VSRE = r"^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]"
-    for line in initfile_lines:
-        mo = re.search(VSRE, line, re.M)
-        if mo:
-            return mo.group(1)
+def version():
+    """Gets the version from the package's __init__ file
+    if there is some problem, let it happily fail"""
+    version_file = HERE / "src" / PACKAGE / "__init__.py"
+    version_regex = r"^__version__ = ['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]"
 
+    initfile = version_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    matched = re.search(version_regex, initfile, re.M)
 
-# load long description from README
-this_directory = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
-with open(os.path.join(this_directory, "README.md"), encoding="utf-8") as f:
-    long_description = f.read()
+    if matched is not None:
+        return matched.group(1)
+    return "0.0.0"
 
 
+# load long description from README
 setup(
     name="qibotn",
-    version=get_version(),
+    version=version(),
     description="A tensor-network translation module for quantum computing",
     author="The Qibo team",
     author_email="",
@@ -42,19 +39,22 @@ def get_version():
         "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Physics",
     ],
     install_requires=[
-        "networkx>=2.3",
-        "opt_einsum>=3.2",
-        "autoray>=0.2.0",
-        "diskcache>=3.0",
-        "randomgen>=1.18",
-        "quimb",
-        "qibo"
+        "qibo>=0.1.10",
+        "qibojit>=0.0.7",
+        "quimb[tensor]>=1.4.0",
     ],
     extras_require={
-        "docs": ["sphinx", "sphinx_rtd_theme", "recommonmark", "sphinxcontrib-bibtex", "sphinx_markdown_tables", "nbsphinx", "IPython", "doc2dash>=2.4.1", ],
-        "tests": ["pytest", "cirq", "ply", "sklearn", "dill", "coverage", "pytest-cov"],
+        "docs": [],
+        "tests": [
+            "pytest>=7.2.0",
+            "pytest-cov>=4.0.0",
+            "pytest-env>=0.8.1",
+        ],
+        "analysis": [
+            "pylint>=2.16.0",
+        ],
     },
     python_requires=">=3.7.0",
-    long_description=long_description,
-    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
-)
\ No newline at end of file
+    long_description=(HERE / "README.md").read_text(encoding="utf-8"),
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
+)
diff --git a/src/qibotn/__main__.py b/src/qibotn/__main__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8ed74396
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/qibotn/__main__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import argparse
+from qibotn import qasm_quimb
+
+
+def parser():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--nqubits", default=10, type=int, help="Number of quibits in the circuits."
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
+    print("Testing for %d nqubits" % (args.nqubits))
+    qasm_quimb.eval_QI_qft(args.nqubits, args.qasm_circ, args.init_state)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main(parser())
diff --git a/src/qibotn/quimb.py b/src/qibotn/quimb.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8414540f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/qibotn/quimb.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import numpy as np
+import quimb.tensor as qtn
+from qibo.models import Circuit as QiboCircuit
+
+
+def from_qibo(circuit: QiboCircuit, psi0=None):
+    nqubits = circuit.nqubits
+    tncirc = qtn.Circuit(nqubits, psi0=psi0)
+
+    for gate in circuit.queue:
+        tncirc.apply_gate(
+            gate.name,
+            *gate.parameters,
+            *gate.qubits,
+            parametrize=len(gate.parameters) > 0
+        )
+
+    return tncirc
+
+
+def init_state_tn(nqubits, init_state_sv):
+    dims = tuple(2 * np.ones(nqubits, dtype=int))
+
+    return qtn.tensor_1d.MatrixProductState.from_dense(init_state_sv, dims)
+
+
+def eval(qasm: str, init_state, backend="numpy"):
+    """Evaluate QASM with Quimb
+
+    backend (quimb): numpy, cupy, jax. Passed to ``opt_einsum``.
+
+    """
+    circuit = QiboCircuit.from_qasm(qasm)
+    init_state_mps = init_state_tn(circuit.nqubits, init_state)
+    circ_quimb = from_qibo(circuit, psi0=init_state_mps)
+    interim = circ_quimb.psi.full_simplify(seq="DRC")
+    amplitudes = interim.to_dense(backend=backend).flatten()
+
+    return amplitudes
diff --git a/tests/config.py b/tests/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..74036736
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Optional
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Executor:
+    backend: str
+    platform: Optional[str] = None
+
+
+qibo = Executor(backend="qibojit", platform="numpy")
+quimb = Executor(backend="numpy")
diff --git a/tests/test_qasm_quimb_backend.py b/tests/test_qasm_quimb_backend.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9620187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_qasm_quimb_backend.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+import copy
+import os
+from timeit import default_timer as timer
+
+import config
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+import qibo
+from qibo.models import QFT
+
+
+def create_init_state(nqubits):
+    init_state = np.random.random(2**nqubits) + 1j * np.random.random(2**nqubits)
+    init_state = init_state / np.sqrt((np.abs(init_state) ** 2).sum())
+    return init_state
+
+
+def qibo_qft(nqubits, init_state, swaps):
+    circ_qibo = QFT(nqubits, swaps)
+    state_vec = np.array(circ_qibo(init_state))
+    return circ_qibo, state_vec
+
+
+def time(func):
+    start = timer()
+    res = func()
+    end = timer()
+    time = end - start
+    return time, res
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("nqubits", [1, 2, 5, 10])
+def test_eval(nqubits: int):
+    # hack quimb to use the correct number of processes
+    # TODO: remove completely, or at least delegate to the backend
+    # implementation
+    os.environ["QUIMB_NUM_PROCS"] = str(os.cpu_count())
+    import qibotn.quimb
+
+    init_state = create_init_state(nqubits=nqubits)
+    init_state_tn = copy.deepcopy(init_state)
+
+    # Test qibo
+    qibo.set_backend(backend=config.qibo.backend, platform=config.qibo.platform)
+    qibo_time, (qibo_circ, result_sv) = time(
+        lambda: qibo_qft(nqubits, init_state, swaps=True)
+    )
+
+    # Convert to qasm for other backends
+    qasm_circ = qibo_circ.to_qasm()
+
+    # Test quimb
+    quimb_time, result_tn = time(
+        lambda: qibotn.quimb.eval(
+            qasm_circ, init_state_tn, backend=config.quimb.backend
+        )
+    )
+
+    assert 1e-2 * qibo_time < quimb_time < 1e2 * qibo_time
+    assert np.allclose(result_sv, result_tn), "Resulting dense vectors do not match"