quantuminspire 0.6.0

SDK for the Quantum Inspire platform

Quantum Inspire SDK

Note: this SDK is made available as a public beta, please report any issues or bugs in the github issue tracker.

The Quantum Inspire platform allows to execute quantum algorithms using the cQASM language.

The software development kit (SDK) for the Quantum Inspire platform consists of:

• An API for the Quantum Inspire platform (the QuantumInspireAPI class);
• Backends for:
  • the ProjectQ SDK;
  • the QisKit SDK.

For more information on Quantum Inspire see https://www.quantum-inspire.com/. Detailed information on cQASM can be found in the Quantum Inspire knowledge base.

Installation

The Quantum Inspire SDK can be installed from PyPI via pip:

$ pip install quantuminspire

In addition, to use Quantum Inspire through Qiskit or ProjectQ, install either or both of the qiskit and projectq packages:

$ pip install qiskit
$ pip install projectq

Installing from source

The source for the SDK can also be found at Github. For the default installation execute:

$ git clone https://github.com/QuTech-Delft/quantuminspire
$ cd quantuminspire
$ pip install .

This does not install ProjectQ or QisKit, but will install the Quantum Inspire backends for those projects.

If you want to include a specific SDK as a dependency, install with (e.g. for the ProjectQ backend):

$ pip install .[projectq]

To install both ProjectQ as well as QisKit as a dependency:

$ pip install .[qiskit,projectq]

Running

For example usage see the python scripts and Jupyter notebooks in the docs/ directory when installed from source or the share/doc/quantuminspire/examples/ directory in the library root (Python’s sys.prefix for system installations; site.USER_BASE for user installations) when installed from PyPI.

For example, to run the ProjectQ example notebook after installing from source:

cd docs
jupyter notebook example_projectq.ipynb

Or to perform Grover's with the ProjectQ backend from a Python script:

cd docs
python example_projectq_grover.py

It is also possible to use the API through the QuantumInspireAPI object directly. This is for advanced users that really know what they are doing. The intention of the QuantumInspireAPI class is that it is used as a thin layer between existing SDK's such as ProjectQ and Qiskit, and is not primarily meant for general use. You may want to explore this if you intend to write a new backend for an existing SDK.

A simple example to perform entanglement between two qubits by using the API wrapper directly:

from getpass import getpass
from coreapi.auth import BasicAuthentication
from quantuminspire.api import QuantumInspireAPI

print('Enter mail address')
email = input()

print('Enter password')
password = getpass()

server_url = r'https://api.quantum-inspire.com'
authentication = BasicAuthentication(email, password)
qi = QuantumInspireAPI(server_url, authentication)

qasm = '''version 1.0

qubits 2

H q[0]
CNOT q[0], q[1]
display
'''

backend_type = qi.get_backend_type_by_name('QX single-node simulator')
result = qi.execute_qasm(qasm, backend_type=backend_type, number_of_shots=1024)

print(result['histogram'])

Known issues

• Authentication for the Quantum Inspire platform is currently password only; this will change to API-token based authentication in the near future;
• It is not possible to simulate algorithms that do not use full state projection through Qiskit / ProjectQ
• Some test-cases call protected methods
• Known issues and common questions regarding the Quantum Inspire platform can be found in the FAQ.

Bug reports

Please submit bug-reports on the github issue tracker.

Testing

Run all unittests and collect the code coverage using:

coverage run --source="./src/quantuminspire" -m unittest discover -s src/tests -t src -v
coverage report -m

Note

If you are getting import errors related to tests.quantuminspire when running the above commands after a pip install -e ., as a workaround you should remove the package tests installed by older versions of marshmallow-polyfield (a Qiskit dependency):

rm -Rf env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tests