Systems Newsletter December 2023
We are happy to announce the release of several new enabling features and examples for Quantinuum Systems Users.
User and Group Priority
A new feature has been released to give organization administrators the ability to prioritize their queue by user and group. This feature is helpful when your organization has a mix of low and high priority projects in the queue.
Learn more about this new ability in the Quantinuum Systems Administrator Guide and Quantinuum API Specification for User Management on the Quantinuum User Portal
Partial results retrieval available in pytket
The Quantinuum API supports giving users partial results from unfinished jobs. This can be useful to retrieve results faster, check on the status of large jobs and allow users to quickly diagnose issues in currently running jobs. Support for this feature was recently added to the pytket-quantinuum package.
An example of how to use this feature can be found in the How to Submit Quantum Circuits to Quantinuum Systems Backends notebook on the Quantinuum User Portal under the Examples tab. More information can be found on the pytket-quantinuum docs page under Partial Results Retrieval.
Variational Experiments on Quantinuum Systems with pytket
Variational quantum algorithms involve optimizing a trial parametrized wavefunction to estimate the lowest eigenvalue (or expectation value) of a Hamiltonian. On the Quantinuum User Portal under the Examples tab, a new example, Variational Experiment with Batching was added showing how to run variational quantum algorithms using pytket and Quantinuum Systems unique features. The example walks through an evaluation of the ground-state energy (lowest eigenvalue) of a dihydrogen molecule.
In this example you will learn about:
- Setup of the Hamiltonian of interest in pytket
- Synthesizing symbolic circuits in pytket
- Variational experiments using the batching feature available on Quantinuum Systems
Learn quantum computing with Copilot in Azure Quantum
An educational tool to support learning quantum computing and programming in Q# has been released in Azure Quantum. This tool is supported by a generalized version of Quantinuum’s H1 emulator and is featured alongside Microsoft Copilot to help users create quantum code as well as answer questions about quantum computing topics. It is free to use and can be accessed on the Azure Quantum website. Click the dropdown at the top to choose Quantinuum’s H1 emulator. For more information about the generalized version of the Quantinuum H1 emulator included in the tool, see Quantinuum emulator (cloud-based).