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Quantum Computing in Practice with Qiskit® and IBM Quantum Experience®

You're reading from   Quantum Computing in Practice with Qiskit® and IBM Quantum Experience® Practical recipes for quantum computer coding at the gate and algorithm level with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828448
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hassi Norlen Hassi Norlen
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Preparing Your Environment 2. Chapter 2: Quantum Computing and Qubits with Python FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: IBM Quantum Experience® – Quantum Drag and Drop 4. Chapter 4: Starting at the Ground Level with Terra 5. Chapter 5: Touring the IBM Quantum® Hardware with Qiskit® 6. Chapter 6: Understanding the Qiskit® Gate Library 7. Chapter 7: Simulating Quantum Computers with Aer 8. Chapter 8: Cleaning Up Your Quantum Act with Ignis 9. Chapter 9: Grover's Search Algorithm 10. Chapter 10: Getting to Know Algorithms with Aqua 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing an upside-down coin toss

In this recipe, we will tweak our very first quantum program a little bit but still keep it relatively simple. An actual coin can be tossed starting with either heads or tails facing upward. Let's do another quantum coin toss but with a different starting point, the coin facing tails up. In Dirac notation, we start with our qubit in instead of in .

Getting ready

The sample code for this recipe can be found here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Quantum-Computing-in-Practice-with-Qiskit-and-IBM-Quantum-Experience/blob/master/Chapter04/ch4_r3_coin_toss_tails.py.

Just like the previous recipe, this one is almost identical to the first coin toss recipe. Feel free to reuse what you have already created. The only real difference is that we add a new quantum gate, the X (or NOT) gate.

How to do it...

The following steps are to a large extent identical to the steps from the Quantum coin toss revisited recipe. There are, however,...

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