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Quantum Computing Experimentation with Amazon Braket

By : Alex Khan
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Book Image

Quantum Computing Experimentation with Amazon Braket

5 (1)
By: Alex Khan

Overview of this book

Amazon Braket is a cloud-based pay-per-use platform for executing quantum algorithms on cutting-edge quantum computers and simulators. It is ideal for developing robust apps with the latest quantum devices. With this book, you'll take a hands-on approach to learning how to take real-world problems and run them on quantum devices. You'll begin with an introduction to the Amazon Braket platform and learn about the devices currently available on the platform, their benefits, and their purpose. Then, you'll review key quantum concepts and algorithms critical to converting real-world problems into a quantum circuit or binary quadratic model based on the appropriate device and its capability. The book also covers various optimization use cases, along with an explanation of the code. Finally, you'll work with a framework using code examples that will help to solve your use cases with quantum and quantum-inspired technologies. Later chapters cover custom-built functions and include almost 200 figures and diagrams to visualize key concepts. You’ll be able to scan the capabilities provided by Amazon Braket and explore the functions to adapt them for specific use cases. By the end of this book, you’ll have the tools to integrate your current business apps and AWS data with Amazon Braket to solve constrained and multi-objective optimization problems.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Introduction
Free Chapter
2
Section 1: Getting Started with Amazon Braket
7
Section 2: Building Blocks for Real-World Use Cases
13
Section 3: Real-World Use Cases

Creating an AWS account

This section is for setting up a root account in AWS by a system administrator. We will go over the fundamental steps needed to set up an AWS account and start the Amazon Braket service.

To set up a new AWS Braket account, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to http://aws.amazon.com/braket.

This will give you more information about Amazon Braket before you sign up.

  1. Now, you can click on Get Started with Amazon Braket.

Alternatively, you click on Sign In to the Console. In either case, you should see the following screen:

Figure 1.2 – The console's sign-in screen

  1. Select Create a new AWS account.
  2. The following dialog box will appear:

Figure 1.3 – The Sign up for AWS screen

  1. Now you can sign up with a new account. There will be five steps, and you will be asked to add your credit card information and select the level of the account...