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Quantum Computing in Practice with Qiskit® and IBM Quantum Experience®

By : Hassi Norlen
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Book Image

Quantum Computing in Practice with Qiskit® and IBM Quantum Experience®

5 (1)
By: Hassi Norlen

Overview of this book

IBM Quantum Experience® is a leading platform for programming quantum computers and implementing quantum solutions directly on the cloud. This book will help you get up to speed with programming quantum computers and provide solutions to the most common problems and challenges. You’ll start with a high-level overview of IBM Quantum Experience® and Qiskit®, where you will perform the installation while writing some basic quantum programs. This introduction puts less emphasis on the theoretical framework and more emphasis on recent developments such as Shor’s algorithm and Grover’s algorithm. Next, you’ll delve into Qiskit®, a quantum information science toolkit, and its constituent packages such as Terra, Aer, Ignis, and Aqua. You’ll cover these packages in detail, exploring their benefits and use cases. Later, you’ll discover various quantum gates that Qiskit® offers and even deconstruct a quantum program with their help, before going on to compare Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) and Universal Fault-Tolerant quantum computing using simulators and actual hardware. Finally, you’ll explore quantum algorithms and understand how they differ from classical algorithms, along with learning how to use pre-packaged algorithms in Qiskit® Aqua. By the end of this quantum computing book, you’ll be able to build and execute your own quantum programs using IBM Quantum Experience® and Qiskit® with Python.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Exploring more Aqua algorithms

We have now reached the end of our book, and with that, the end of our trip through Qiskit® together. On our trip, we have looked at some basic quantum programming and explored the IBM Quantum® backends – the actual quantum computers! We have run our programs on these and gotten quantum results back.

We started poking at the real meat of quantum computing, the algorithms. This book, however, is not about algorithms; we have just scratched the surface with some very basic ideas of how quantum algorithms differ from their classical counterparts and how it might feel to write them.

And after touching on how to write algorithms and the sometimes-counterintuitive approach to getting the answer compared to classical algorithms, we also looked into prefabricated algorithms that are included with Qiskit Aqua: Grover's algorithm and Shor's algorithm. I like to think of this part of Qiskit® as an appstore of quantum computing...