acquantum-qiskit

A qiskit provider for the Alibaba's quantum computer.

Installation

This plugin requires Python version 3.5 and above, as well as qiskit. Installation can be done using pip:

Install from PyPI

$ pip install acquantum-qiskit

Getting started

As this provider is only needed to actually run a quantum circuit, pretty much the whole stack is identical as already known. The only difference is that the provider must be instantiated explicitly and the credentials must be given: either directly through user/password or by setting system environment variables ACQ_USER and ACQ_PWD.

import qiskit
import qiskit.extensions.standard as standard
from qiskit.circuit.measure import measure
from qiskit.circuit import QuantumCircuit, QuantumRegister, ClassicalRegister

from acquantum_qiskit import AcQuantumProvider

q = QuantumRegister(2, "q")
r = QuantumRegister(1, "r")
c = ClassicalRegister(2, "c")
ca = ClassicalRegister(1, "c^a")
qc = QuantumCircuit(q, r, c, ca, name="TestCircuit")
standard.h(qc, q[0])
standard.cx(qc, q[0], q[1])
standard.x(qc, r)
measure(qc, q, c)
measure(qc, r, ca)

# Create the provider
provider = AcQuantumProvider()

# load_account without arguments tries to load from system environment varables
# the user (ACQ_USER) and password (ACQ_PWD)
provider.enable_account()

# if this is not what you want instantiate instead
# ===> uncomment this if you want this:
# provider.enable_account(user='your_user', password='xxxxxxxx')

backend = provider.get_backend("SIMULATE")  # type: AcQuantumBackend

# Execute and print out the results
job = qiskit.execute(qc, backend, shots=1024, seed=None)
result = job.result()
print(result.get_counts())

Contributing

We welcome contributions - simply fork the repository of this plugin, and then make a pull request containing your contribution. All contributers to this plugin will be listed as authors on the releases.

We also encourage bug reports, suggestions for new features and enhancements, and even links to cool projects or applications built on this project.

License

The AcQuantum Qiskit Provider is free and open source, released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.