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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)

Using the Grover circuit in your own code

There's quite a bit of code going into the combined ch9_r3_grover_main.py and ch9_grover_functions.py scripts. The interactive main program is not needed to just run Grover if, for example, you want to utilize it in another Python program.

Getting ready

The sample Grover functions code that you need is included here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Quantum-Computing-in-Practice-with-Qiskit-and-IBM-Quantum-Experience/blob/master/Chapter09/ch9_grover_functions.py.

How to do it…

  1. Technically, all you need to do is to include the following short code snippet in your own code:
    from ch9_grover_functions import *
    oracle=create_oracle("01",2)
    amplifier=create_amplifier(2)
    grover=create_grover(oracle,amplifier,False)
    print(grover)
  2. The preceding code should give the following result:

Figure 9.36 – Using the Grover functions in a minimal script to create a Grover circuit

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