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Quantum Computing Experimentation with Amazon Braket

By : Alex Khan
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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

Reasons to get into Amazon Braket

  • Like some other platforms, Amazon Braket provides quantum circuit designers convenient access to a number of quantum computing devices through one framework. In the past, we had to use different SDKs and methods to access each device.
  • You might have an application that utilizes elastic compute resources, such as EC2, and want to extend that application to quantum computing in the future. Amazon Braket allows you to build extensions to your existing code that uses other Amazon services.
  • Amazon Braket contains some exclusive simulators, such as TN1, SV1, and DM1.
  • The Amazon Braket pay-per-use model can be useful when experimenting with and scaling quantum device usage.

There is a personal reason I have chosen to write this book. I have been teaching quantum computing and have had the opportunity to explain quantum computing concepts to many students. I want to share basic concepts with you that I hope will give you a practical understanding of how to eventually tackle business use cases through quantum computing by the end of this book.