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Quantum Programming 101: 16 Qubit Random Number Generator Tutorial

Requirements

Installation

  1. Install Python 3.x (Make sure Python is added to Path and Pip is checked)

  2. Open Command Prompt and type in: pip install qiskit

  3. Profit!

Implementation

Figure 1: Circuit Diagram of the 16-qubit Random Number Generator

Figure 1: Circuit Diagram of the 16-qubit Random Number Generator

STEP 1: INITIALISE THE QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL REGISTERS

The first step is to initialise a 16 qubit register . This is done by the following code:

q = QuantumRegister(16,’q’)

Next we initialise the 16 bit classical register with the following code:

c = ClassicalRegister(16,’c’)

STEP 2: CREATE THE CIRCUIT

Next we create a quantum circuit using the following code:

circuit = QuantumCircuit(q,c)

STEP 3: APPLY A HADAMARD GATE TO ALL QUBITS

Then we need to apply a Hadamard gate. This gate is used to put a qubit in to a superposition of 1 and 0 such that when we measure the qubit it will be 1 or a 0 with equal probability.

This is done with the following code:

circuit.h(q)

STEP 4: MEASURE THE QUBITS

After this we measure the qubits. This measurement will collapse the qubits superposition in to either a 1 or a 0.

This is done with the following code:

circuit.measure(q,c)

How to run the program

  1. Copy and paste the code below in to a python file

  2. Enter your API token in the IBMQ.enable_account(‘Insert API token here’) part

  3. Save and run

Code

from qiskit import QuantumRegister, ClassicalRegister, QuantumCircuit, execute,IBMQ

IBMQ.enable_account('ENTER API TOKEN HERE')
provider = IBMQ.get_provider(hub='ibm-q')

q = QuantumRegister(16,'q')
c = ClassicalRegister(16,'c')
circuit = QuantumCircuit(q,c)
circuit.h(q) # Applies hadamard gate to all qubits
circuit.measure(q,c) # Measures all qubits 

backend = provider.get_backend('ibmq_qasm_simulator')
job = execute(circuit, backend, shots=1)
                               
print('Executing Job...\n')                 
result = job.result()
counts = result.get_counts(circuit)

print('RESULT: ',counts,'\n')
print('Press any key to close')
input()

Output

Once you have ran the program you will get the following output:

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Want to learn about Quantum Programming? Head over to Quantum Computing UK: https://quantumcomputinguk.org/

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