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Learn Quantum Computing with Python and IBM Quantum Experience

You're reading from   Learn Quantum Computing with Python and IBM Quantum Experience A hands-on introduction to quantum computing and writing your own quantum programs with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838981006
Length 510 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Tour of the IBM Quantum Experience (QX)
2. Chapter 1: Exploring the IBM Quantum Experience FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Circuit Composer – Creating a Quantum Circuit 4. Chapter 3: Creating Quantum Circuits using Quantum Lab Notebooks 5. Section 2: Basics of Quantum Computing
6. Chapter 4: Understanding Basic Quantum Computing Principles 7. Chapter 5: Understanding the Quantum Bit (Qubit) 8. Chapter 6: Understanding Quantum Logic Gates 9. Section 3: Algorithms, Noise, and Other Strange Things in Quantum World
10. Chapter 7: Introducing Qiskit and its Elements 11. Chapter 8: Programming with Qiskit Terra 12. Chapter 9: Monitoring and Optimizing Quantum Circuits 13. Chapter 10: Executing Circuits Using Qiskit Aer 14. Chapter 11: Mitigating Quantum Errors Using Ignis 15. Chapter 12: Learning about Qiskit Aqua 16. Chapter 13: Understanding Quantum Algorithms 17. Chapter 14: Applying Quantum Algorithms 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Resources

Building a coin-flipping experiment

If you've ever taken a course in probability and statistics, you might have seen the coin flip example. In this example, you are given an unbiased coin to flip multiple times and track the results of each flip (experiment) as either heads or tails. What this experiment illustrates is that with an unbiased coin and enough samples, you will see that the probability of either heads or tails start to converge to about 50%.

This means that, after running a sufficient number of experiments, the number of times the coin lands on heads becomes very closely equal to the number of times that it lands on tails.

Let's take a moment to make an important note regarding the previously stated analogy with respect to the reality of the preceding experiment. It has been proven that in many ways, any coin could be easily made biased so that when it is flipped, it can land on the same side each time.

That being said, I want to ensure that this is...

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