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### Summary

Small paper edits.

### Details and comments

This PR addresses
#1124 and
#1129. We have

* included two new references 
* outlined the value proposition of Qiskit Experiments
* included a link to the experiment manuals.

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Co-authored-by: Helena Zhang <hadron.diaspora@gmail.com>
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copyright = {arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license}
}

@article{Ball2021,
doi = {10.1088/2058-9565/abdca6},
url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/abdca6},
year = {2021},
month = {sep},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
volume = {6},
number = {4},
pages = {044011},
author = {H. Ball and M. J. Biercuk and A. R. R. Carvalho and J. C. and M. Hush and L. A. De Castro and L. Li and P. J Liebermann and H. J. Slatyer and C. Edmunds and V. Frey and C. Hempel and A. Milne},
title = {Software tools for quantum control: improving quantum computer performance through noise and error suppression},
journal = {Quantum Sci. Technol.}
}

@article{Cross2019,
title = {Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits},
author = {Cross, A. W. and Bishop, L. S. and Sheldon, S. and Nation, P. D. and Gambetta, J. M.},
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url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2}
}

@misc{Pasquale2023,
title = {Towards an open-source framework to perform quantum calibration and characterization},
author = {A. Pasquale and S. Efthymiou and S. Ramos-Calderer and J. Wilkens and I. Roth and S. Carrazza},
year = {2023},
eprint = {2303.10397},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
primaryClass = {quant-ph}
}

@misc{Qiskit,
author = {M. S. Anis and A. Mitchell and H. Abraham and A. Offei and R. Agarwal and G. Agliardi and M. Aharoni and I. Y. Akhalwaya and G. Aleksandrowicz and \emph{et al.}},
title = {Qiskit: An Open-source Framework for Quantum Computing},
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Forest [@Smith2016] are part of the quantum stack to execute quantum circuits on hardware.
They also enable high-level applications that abstract away the quantum hardware.
Forest-benchmarking [@Forest] and pyGSTi [@pyGSTi] are tailored towards benchmarking of quantum hardware.
Commercial solutions that provide quantum optimal control as a service now also exist [@Ball2021].
However, there is still a need for open-source software that enables researchers and hardware
maintainers to easily execute characterization and calibration experiments.
`Qiskit Experiments` is unique in this perspective as it provides low-level characterization
experiments that integrate with pulse-level control [@Alexander2020].
Recently, software packages have started to emerge to fill this gap [@Pasquale2023].
`Qiskit Experiments` is unique in this perspective as it provides open-source low-level
characterization experiments that integrate with pulse-level control [@Alexander2020].
`Qiskit Experiments` greatly simplifies the execution of complex experiments and is
usable with any hardware exposed as a Qiskit backend.
Indeed, a library provides many experiments which run multiple quantum circuits and complex fitting.
Crucially, each experiment only requires a few code lines to run with `Qiskit Experiments`.
In addition, the base framework of `Qiskit Experiments` provides experimentalists a clear
interface to create new experiments.
They must (i) define how to construct the circuits, (ii) define the experiment options,
and optionally (iii) implement the analysis class, if not already present in the library.
In addition, `Qiskit Experiments` provides a calibration framework to manage device calibration.
This framework is usable with any hardware exposed as a Qiskit backend.
For example, the `Qiskit Experiments` framework is used to explore measurements without qubit
reset [@Tornow2022], benchmarking [@Amico2023], characterize positive operator value measures [@Fischer2022], quantum
Experiments in the `Qiskit Experiments` library and custom extensions built on top of the
framework have been used to explore measurements without qubit reset [@Tornow2022],
benchmarking [@Amico2023], positive operator value measures [@Fischer2022], quantum
states [@Hamilton2022], and time-evolutions [@Greenaway2022], as well as calibrate gates [@Vazquez2022].

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# Documentation

`Qiskit Experiments` documentation is available at [https://qiskit.org/documentation/experiments](https://qiskit.org/documentation/experiments).
The documentation also includes [experiment manuals](https://qiskit.org/documentation/experiments/manuals)
that show how to run experiments such as the Quantum Volume presented above.

# Acknowledgements

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