The Quantum Experience team at IBM has started to open source their quantum software QISKit, writes quantum computing and information scientist Jay Gambetta. QISKit allows developers to explore IBM cloud-enabled quantum processor using Python.<\/b>
The Quantum Experience team at IBM has started to open source their quantum software QISKit, writes quantum computing and information scientist Jay Gambetta. QISKit allows developers to explore IBM cloud-enabled quantum processor using Python.
IBM QISKit includes three main components:
In IBM\u2019s OPENAQSM model, a quantum computation is carried through in four steps:
IBM Quantum Experience aims to make it possible to connect to IBM\u2019s quantum computer via IBM\u2019s cloud and to experiment with or integrate quantum capability into software programs. Quantum computers differ from classical transistor-based computers where there are only two allowed states due to the use of quantum bits, which can be the superposition of multiple states. Quantum computation is touted to be able to efficiently solve problems which are not approachable using ordinary computers, in the field of integer factorization (cryptography), for the simulation of quantum physical processes, the approximation of Jones polynomials , solving Pell\u2019s equation , and others. For some of those problems, quantum computers offer a polynomial speedup over their classical counterparts, which also implies that currently intractable (NP) problems will not convert into tractable problems thanks to quantum computing, only more approachable.<\/p>\n