Introduction to the Quantum Bit

Talk given at PyCascades 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7n1SUEl5g&t=5200

How to install IBM's Qiskit on your laptop

Official install doc: https://qiskit.org/documentation/install.html

Note: as recently as 28-Nov-2019, Qiskit did not work with Python 3.8. You can specify Python 3.7 by doing:
$ conda create -n name_of_my_env python=3.7

The basic procedure is (this does not replace the install doc above):

1. Install Anaconda
2. Create virtual environment using conda create ... and activate it.
3. Pip install qiskit
4. Start Anaconda, or restart if already running.
5. In Anaconda, select your virtual env.
6. Within Anaconda, install Jupyter Notebook - will install into your selected virtual env. (JupyterLab may also work.)
7. Launch Jupyter Notebook

Resources

IBM Quantum Computing Documentation & Support:
https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/support

To see entanglement and Bell tests page:

1. IBM Quantum Experience User Guide
2. Left pane: Entanglement and Bell Tests

Textbook and video series:
https://qiskit.org/education

The famous EPR paper:
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen
Phys. Rev. 47, 777 – Published 15 May 1935

Interactive Bloch sphere visualization tool:
https://javafxpert.github.io/grok-bloch/

If there is anything missing that you hoped to find here, please let me know.