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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

Preface

Thank you for showing interest in this book, Quantum Computing Experimentation Using Amazon Braket. This is a niche topic; however, over the last few years, quantum computing has received considerable attention from governments who want to win the quantum race, investors who have poured massive amounts of money into quantum computing start-ups, and early adopters who are seeing it as a potential strategic advantage in the future. Accessing quantum computers through Amazon Braket is useful and important for several reasons. In the case of many quantum computing devices, either direct access is not possible or requires contract negotiations or minimum monthly payments. Amazon Braket removes all these issues by providing a relatively easy-to-learn integrated platform with pay-per-use access to popular quantum computing hardware.

The goal of this book is to help the reader gradually understand key concepts in quantum computing and get comfortable with experimenting with quantum circuits and practical optimization use cases through the Amazon Braket platform. We will also cover quantum annealing and get familiar with how to convert an optimization problem into a format or structure to run on a quantum annealer and gate-based quantum computer.