Introduction to Quantum Computing

This page will serve as an introduction to quantum computing (QC) through the Qiskit package. The goal is not to provide a comprehensive overview of QC, but instead direct users to existing tutorials provided by Qiskit and the greater IBM community.

Resources¶

Start here¶

• IBM Quantum Learning (courses + modules): https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/learning

• Quickstart (install + first run): https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/quick-start

• Hello world (first runnable program): https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/tutorials/hello-world

Tutorials¶

• Tutorials hub (workflows + use-cases): https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/tutorials

• Qiskit + IBM Quantum Platform docs (main hub): https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs

Runtime + primitives¶

• Get started with primitives (Sampler/Estimator): https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/get-started-with-primitives

• Introduction to primitives: https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/primitives

• Migrate to Runtime V2 primitives (SamplerV2/EstimatorV2): https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/v2-primitives

• Primitives examples: https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/primitives-examples

HPC / runtime integration¶

• Qiskit serverless (HPC-style batch workflows): https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/serverless

• Execution modes (job/session/batch): https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/execution-modes

• Run jobs in a session: https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/run-jobs-session

• IBM blog: C API enables end-to-end HPC demo: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/c-api-enables-end-to-end-hpc-demo

• Upstream Qiskit C API demo repo: https://github.com/qiskit-community/qiskit-c-api-demo

Migration¶

• Qiskit v2.0 migration guide: https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/qiskit-2.0

• Install Qiskit: https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/install-qiskit

Accounts / instances¶

• Cloud setup: https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/cloud-setup

• Instances: https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/guides/instances

Repos + notebooks¶

• Qiskit documentation source repo: https://github.com/Qiskit/documentation

• Qiskit SDK source repo: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit

• Community tutorials notebooks repo: https://github.com/qiskit-community/qiskit-community-tutorials