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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)

Moving between worlds

Now you have seen how to create your quantum scores in Circuit Composer, and how to run them on a simulator, and on a real IBM quantum computer. But the rest of the book will be about working in Qiskit® with your programs. Do we just say farewell to IBM Quantum Experience® then?

Not so fast. IBM Quantum Experience® is a great environment for learning how to build quantum scores, and you do not have to troubleshoot Python code or worry about your environment being up to date (IBM takes care of that for you), and it is actually pretty easy to take what you create in IBM Quantum Experience® and just move it over to Qiskit®.

You have two options:

  • Qiskit®: With Qiskit® code export, your quantum score is translated into Python code that you can paste directly into your Python interpreter and run. This is a one-way trip from IBM Quantum Experience® to Qiskit®.
  • QASM: Underneath the covers, IBM Quantum Experience...