diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f5dcdc95..526cd4d9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-qiskit=1.0
+qiskit==1.0
 qiskit-aer>=0.11.0
 qiskit_ibm_provider>=0.5.0
 pybind11<=2.9.1