This project aims to build an easy-to-use application for generation of random numbers using measurements over Quantum circuits. This measurements are requested to Q-IBM servers.
In order to do your own simulations with IBM servers, you need to obtain a personal token (See Qiskit Documentation for more info). Once you have this key, it needs to be stored in a file named key.json with the following structure:
{
"api_token":<your_api_token>
}
A sample of this structure can be found in example_key.json.
In order to run the generator, one should clone this repo, install the requirement packages in a Python environment, set a personal token and run app.py:
python app.py --mode 2 --number_amount 70 -bits 4
where mode flag is set to 2 in order to run in IBM servers and not in local (0), number_amount is the amount of numbers one wants to get and bits refers to the number of qubits used in the simulation (output numbers range from 0 to 2^{bits-1}).
There is also a benchmark feature, where some randomness comparaison is performed. By running
python benchmark_app.py --mode 2 --number_amount 70 -bits 4
numpy pseudo-random number are generated as well. Different statistical moments of the distributions are compared.