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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

Summary

This chapter covered the main components of the Amazon Braket service. We went over how to create an AWS account, which, for our purpose, was the root account. Then, we started the Amazon Braket service and configured the S3 service with the appropriate directory file(s). Following this, we started the Braket notebook service for users that will be signing into the AWS console and using the Amazon Braket instance of the notebooks and examples. Additionally, we reviewed the changes needed on a notebook so that it can send job information to the correct folder. We also discussed the pros and cons of keeping the notebook instance open versus shutting down the notebook service. We discussed how to enable users to gain access to the Amazon Braket service remotely through their local computer installation of Jupyter Notebook. Finally, we also showed how users can sign in to Amazon Braket through their console access.

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