This repository contains a collection of experiments to understand and leverage the effect of the pulse shape on quantum computations. The main tools in this investigation are the quantum-gates library for generating the noisy quantum gates for specific pulse shapes, and Qiskit for creating for the quantum circuits, and IBMQ for experiments on real hardware. The aim is to leverage the findings for improving the Noisy Gates approach, enabling device- and circuit-specific optimizations, and find new Quantum Error Mitigation schemes.
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Here we explain how to create and activate a virtual environment for the project, install the dependencies, and validate the installation.
The Python version should be 3.9 or later. Find your Python version by typing python or python3 in the CLI. We recommend using the repo together with an IBM Quantum Lab account, as it necessary for circuit compilation with Qiskit in many cases. Take the token-template.py, add your token and save it as token.py. Consider using a secrets manager.
We recommend virtualenv if you use pip as package manager. Open your CLI and check your Python version by starting python and closing quit() Python. Navigate to this repository. Install virtualenv with pip install virtualenv and check the installation using virtualenv --version. Create a new virtual environment with virtualenv venv as described in this guide for virtual environments. Activate the environment with .\venv\Scripts\activate, and you should see the name (venv) displayed in your CLI to the left of your input. Now that we are inside the virtual environment, we can install the dependencies without polluting other projects. We simply type python -m pip install -r requirements.txt. Check your installation by starting Python with python and import the quantum-gates package with import quantum_gates, which is part of the requirements. To deactivate the virtual environment, simply type deactivate.
We recommend Conda if you use it also as package manager. Open the Anaconda prompt and navigate to the repository. Verify that you have the correct Python version, and that you are in the base environment(base). Following the documentation, we create a new virtual environment with conda env create -f environment.yml.
To get the most out of this repo, we recommend reading introduction of the initial publication, study the experiment descriptions, and look into the documentation of the quantum-gates.
This project has been developed thanks to the effort of the following people:
- Roman Wixinger (roman.wixinger@gmail.com)
- Michele Grossi (michele.grossi@cern.ch)
- Giovanni Di Bartolomeo (dibartolomeo.giov@gmail.com)
- Michele Vischi (vischimichele@gmail.com)