Qiskit Aqua Interfaces

Qiskit is an open-source framework for working with noisy quantum computers at the level of pulses, circuits, and algorithms.

Note

This project is currently deprecated and it will stop working after Qiskit Aqua 0.7.0

Note

As of July 12, 2019 Qiskit Chemistry has been merged into Qiskit Aqua, and all the code of the Qiskit Chemistry repository has been integrated into the Qiskit Aqua repository. This change has impacted the dependencies of Qiskit Aqua Intefaces. Follow the instructions in the Qiskit Chemistry README file to update your installation of Qiskit Aqua and Qiskit Aqua Interfaces.

Overview

Qiskit is made up elements that work together to enable quantum computing. This repository contains Qiskit Aqua Interfaces, a set of user-interface components for Qiskit Aqua (the element of Qiskit consisting of a library of cross-domain algorithms upon which domain-specific applications can be built) and Qiskit Chemistry (the chemistry-application component of Qiskit Aqua).

The following user interfaces are currently included in this repository:

1. A command-line interface for Qiskit Aqua
2. A command-line interface for Qiskit Chemistry
3. A Qiskit Chemistry Graphical User Interface (GUI) wizard
4. A Qiskit Aqua GUI wizard
5. A visual browser for the Qiskit Aqua and Qiskit Chemistry Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

The command-line and wizards listed above include the following characteristics:

• Through the command-line and wizard interfaces, the user can execute Qiskit Aqua or Qiskit Chemistry as tools. These interfaces allow the user to configure an experiment and execute it on top of one of the simulators or quantum computers interfaced by Qiskit.
• The command-line and wizard interfaces embed a schema-based configuration-correctness enforcement mechanism that minimizes the chances for a user to make a configuration mistake, especially for experiments that mix domain- and quantum-specific information.
• The command-line and wizard interfaces allow for configuration data and algorithm inputs to be serialized and deserialized at different stages. For example, Chemistry-specific information extracted from the classical computational-chemistry software packages interfaced by Aqua can be serialized in the HDF5 binary format and later deserialized for faster experiment execution. This also allows experiment inputs to be shared among quantum researchers, thereby taking away the dependency from the particular classical computational-chemistry software package used to generate those inputs. Similarly, the input to a quantum algorithm can be serialized in JSON format and later deserialized, thereby allowing a quantum experiment to be executed at the algorithmic level, without any dependency on the particular domain in which that input was generated.
• Finally, the wizard interfaces allow for automatically generating a Python dictionary summarizing an entire experiment. Later on, that dictionary can be used as an input to the Qiskit Aqua or Qiskit Chemistry declarative API.