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Quantum Camp 2023

Resources for the summer camp at NYU ShabaniLab.

Intro

Welcome to the 2022 summer quantum camp. In this summer camp we will be coding a lot to learn about quantum computing, visualizing the concepts, and designing and implementing quantum circuits on quantum hardware. There are some basic tools that we need to learn beforehand. Along with each week's lecture there is a code section in which we try to learn about how to implement problems in code, solve them, and plot the results. There are some basic tools that we need to learn beforehand.

  • git: a version control software to organize your code and keep track of the changes.
  • python: a programming language which all our code is based on.
  • qiskit: a python library from IBM which helps us design, implement, and analyze quantum circuits.
  • jupyter: a python library which allows us to organize our notes, codes, and plots in one file.

Setting up

The first step is the proper installation of these tools on your computer.

git

To install git, you just need to follow the installation guide on the git website. This software has only a command line interface. To check if the installation was successful you just need to run the following command:

git --version

which prints out the version of the software

git version 2.30.0

Here are some useful git commands.

command what it does
git log prints the log of previous commits to your code
git status prints the status of the current project
git add my_file add my_file to the stage (prepare for commiting changes)
git commit -m 'my custom comment commit the changes with a comment on it
git push -u origin master push the changes to the remote directory

If you are not familiar with the command line, you may need to take a short online course to familiarize yourself. You will only need to know some basic commands. Here are some commands that are used often.

command (linux/mac) what it does command (windows)
cd my-folder change directory to my-folder/ cd my-folder
cd - go back
cd .. go to the parent directory cd ..
cd ~ go to home directory
pwd show current directory cd
ls show the contents (files and folders) of the current directory dir
ls -alt list the contents ordered in time
mkdir my-new-folder make a new directory (folder) called my-new-folder mkdir my-new-folder

Linux terminal on a Windows machine

If you have a windows machine, you can install the Windows Subsystem for Linux to have a linux terminal (unless you are already familiar and comfortable with windows terminal)

Python

The best way to install python is to first install Anaconda. You can do so by following the instructions on Anaconda website. After installing Anaconda you can easily install python using the following command

conda install python 

To check if the installation was successful you just need to run the following commands:

conda --version
python --version

which print out the versions of the softwares

conda 4.9.2
Python 3.8.5

After installing python you will need to install the following libraries numpy, scipy, and matplotlib. These libraries might be already installed if you used Anaconda to install python. If not you can always use pip to install them as follows

pip install numpy
pip install scipy
pip install matplotlib

qiskit

Next step is to install qiskit by following the instructions on qiskit website.
Note: make sure you replace name_of_my_env with something more meaningful (e.g. qcamp).
Note: make sure everything you install (e.g. python, qiskit, and jupyter) are in the same conda environment. For that you would need to activate the right environment beforehand by running, for instance, conda activate qcamp in your terminal.
There are lots of tutorials availble on qiskit:

jupyter

To install jupyter you can either use conda.

conda install -c conda-forge notebook

or you can use pip

pip install notebook

You can refer to the jupyter website for more instructions.

Coding exercises

Each week you will be provided with a coding exercise that incorporates the concepts in the lecture notes. All the coding exercises and tutorials are available in the folder notebooks/ on the github page.

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