SDK for the Quantum Inspire platform
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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
Another way to browse and run the available notebooks is by clicking the 'launch binder' button above.
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)
if result.get('histogram', {}):
print(result['histogram'])
else:
reason = result.get('raw_text', 'No reason in result structure.')
print(f'Result structure does not contain proper histogram data. {reason}')
Configure your token credentials for Quantum Inspire
- Create a Quantum Inspire account if you do not already have one.
- Get an API token from the Quantum Inspire website.
- With your API token run:
from quantuminspire.credentials import save_account
save_account('YOUR_API_TOKEN')
After calling save_account(), your credentials will be stored on disk. Those who do not want to save their credentials to disk should use instead:
from quantuminspire.credentials import enable_account
enable_account('YOUR_API_TOKEN')
and the token will only be active for the session.
After calling save_account() once or enable_account() within your session, token authentication is done automatically when creating the Quantum Inspire API object.
For Qiskit users this means:
from quantuminspire.qiskit import QI
QI.set_authentication()
ProjectQ users do something like:
from quantuminspire.api import QuantumInspireAPI
qi = QuantumInspireAPI()
To create a token authentication object yourself using the stored token you do:
from quantuminspire.credentials import get_token_authentication
auth = get_token_authentication()
This auth
can then be used to initialize the Quantum Inspire API object.
Known issues
- 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 unit tests 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
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