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

By : Hassi Norlen
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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)

Introducing IBM Quantum Experience®

IBM Quantum Experience® is an open platform available for someone to start their quantum computing journey. In it, you have free access to a number of IBM quantum computers, ranging in size from a single qubit to 15 qubits (at the time of writing), as well as a 32-qubit simulator that runs on IBM POWER9™ hardware. That's a lot of power at your fingertips.

IBM Quantum Experience® opened its doors in May 2016, in a world-first announcement that the public would now have access to actual quantum computing hardware in the cloud. Since then, several other companies have announced similar initiatives and opened up for cloud quantum computing, initially on simulators. Notable among this crowd are Google, Microsoft, Rigetti, Qutech, and more. As of this book's writing, IBM gives free access to both hardware and software quantum computing through its IBM Quantum Experience®, we will focus on that platform.

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