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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

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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

Signing in to the AWS account

If you are not the administrator and have been assigned an AWS account with console access, then you can go directly to the AWS website, log in to your account, and start using the Amazon Braket service:

  1. Navigate to the Amazon Braket website by typing https://aws.amazon.com.
  2. From the main menu, select Sign in to Console.
  3. Now, you can click on IAM user and fill in the information provided by your system administrator. You will need the account ID or account alias and the initial password to sign in. If you are authorized to change the password, then you will be able to change the initial password.

This section demonstrated how to log in to the AWS console as a user. The administrator will have to provide the necessary information to the user that will be generated during the setup of the user in the IAM management section. This will be covered in Chapter 3, User Setup, Tasks, and Understanding Device Costs.