IBM Quantum

ICYMI: Register below to join us Tuesday, June 11 at 1PM ET for an IBM Quantum Industry Webinar, focusing on utility scale quantum computing in the electronics industry.

We’re excited to announce that Qiskit Global Summer School is *back* for the 5th time—with a focus on helping participants master the many new capabilities introduced with the recent release of the Qiskit SDK’s first major version. The theme of this year’s course will be ‘The Path to Utility,’ and will offer 6,000 people the opportunity to gain an understanding of how to harness the full potential of utility-scale hardware through ten online lectures delivered by various IBM Quantum experts, as well as nine live Q&A sessions hosted by IBM Quantum education leads John Watrous and Olivia Lanes, PhD. Our hope is that the Qiskit Global Summer School will be a launch point for many new quantum learners. Head over to the blog to learn more and enroll in this summer’s program: https://ibm.co/4eguGqX

IBM Quantum is hosting an in-person Quantum Challenge Hangout in Midtown, NYC on June 7th, from 5-8pm. The event will be hosted close to Grand Central Station. There is a limited capacity for this event, so we will process signups on a first-come, first-serve basis. This is an active coding event. We envision participants to be working with each other (and some IBMers) to attempt to solve labs from the IBM Quantum Challenge. Plan to bring your laptop, as there will not be open computers to use. In the interest of having as many people as possible attend the event, we are asking you to sign up for a one hour time slot. After your time is over, you are free to return to the lobby (or a nearby restaurant or bar) to continue working with any friends or new collaborators you may meet. There will be light snacks and drinks provided. We’ll share more details via email once registration is complete. Sign up now: https://ibm.co/3x8izLX Disclaimer: Photo from Yale University 2023 Fall Fest

Since we entered the era of quantum utility, more recent innovations have allowed us to expand our quantum development roadmap. Now, it covers both the public-facing systems and services of the future and the internal milestones that will drive those achievements. Watch below as IBM’s Jerry M. Chow presents the thinking behind our expanded IBM Quantum innovation and development roadmaps—taking us through 2033.

Qiskit SDK v1.1.0 has arrived, marking the first minor version release of the Qiskit SDK’s first major version. On the IBM Quantum blog, we’re reviewing some of the key highlights, including top new features and improvements, as well as some important deprecations. Take a look: https://ibm.co/3yBRaSZ The Qiskit SDK v1.1 release brings a lot of exciting updates and improvements. These include updated `QuantumCircuit` objects that now support typed classical variables, improvements to the preset transpiler pass managers, speedups in transpilation runtime thanks to our continued work re-writing transpiler passes in Rust, and a number of new transpiler passes, including `ElidePermutation` and `StarPreRouting`. The blog offers a high-level overview of all these and more. Remember, because this a minor release, it will not introduce breaking changes for users moving from Qiskit SDK v1.0. Any deprecations announced with this release refer only to things that will now start throwing deprecation warnings. None of these will be *removed* until the release of Qiskit 2.0, pursuant to Qiskit’s official deprecation policy. (Full deprecation policy documentation here: https://ibm.co/4bYAa7T) For more details on any of the topics covered in the blog, be sure to check our documentation, here: https://ibm.co/4aGdjwI

Join us Tuesday, June 11 at 1PM ET for an IBM Quantum Industry Webinar, focusing on utility scale quantum computing in the electronics industry. This event features IBM’s Dr. Charles Chung, Lead for Quantum Industry Applications for Electronics, Engineering, and Manufacturing. In this interactive talk, Dr. Chung will explain how quantum computing intersects with trends in the electronics industry and will provide a deep dive into a promising quantum computing electronics use case. A Q&A for live webinar attendees will follow the presentation. If you’re interested in attending, register here: https://ibm.co/3R4sMQk

ICYMI: Just one week until the 2024 IBM Quantum Challenge begins! To learn more about the 2024 IBM Quantum Challenge and register today, head over to the IBM Quantum blog here: https://ibm.co/4bjHY40

We’re thrilled to announce that the beta release of the Qiskit Transpiler Service is now available to all IBM Quantum Premium Plan users. The Qiskit Transpiler Service leverages the resources of the IBM Cloud to provide users with the latest transpilation capabilities from the Qiskit SDK. It offers a Python library that helps users seamlessly integrate the service into their current Qiskit patterns and workflows. And with the new beta release, the service invites users to experiment with new and improved AI-powered transpiler passes, cutting-edge tools which may be faster and produce better results than traditional transpilation methods. On the IBM Quantum blog, we offer a deep dive into the new beta release with a special focus on the new AI-powered passes. The blog includes detailed explanations showing how to use the Qiskit Transpiler Service for both full circuit transpilation and standalone AI-powered passes, with code examples for each. Take a look: https://lnkd.in/egAZsQWV

Qiskit is a highly performant, fast, and efficient quantum software, yet one of its biggest strengths is you—the user and community. Qiskit must complement the utility-scale hardware that we offer. But without a reliable influx of robust, collaborative projects, we can not expect true discovery and innovation to occur. Qiskit leads the competition in a variety of factors that we can attribute to the strong community, and those are Commits, Contributors, Forks, and Downloads. A high number of commits and contributors can indicate frequent updates, improvements, bug fixes, and diversity of ideas reflecting a dynamic process of ongoing enhancements and collaboration among developers. The amount of downloads show that a particular open-source project is popular and widely used for folks’ work. And finally, a high number of forks suggests that many developers are interested in experimenting with the code, contributing improvements, or adapting the project for their own needs. We believe the numbers show that not only is Qiskit the best software to do utility-scale quantum work, but its community is vibrant, diverse, and highly engaged—making it the best quantum developer community around.

Emerging technologies like AI, sensing, and simulation have already significantly impacted the biotech industry. Now, quantum computing has the potential to further advancement in the field. Today, supercomputers are an invaluable tool in biotech—and they will continue to be. Soon, we expect quantum computers to work hand-in-hand in with classical computation as part of a new supercomputing paradigm, which we call quantum-centric supercomputing. Biotech is uniquely positioned as an industry where quantum can assist classical for pushing research forward and developing new therapies. We are already seeing quantum algorithms be applied in mRNA research in the work that IBM Quantum Network member Moderna is doing. And their findings thus far are actively demonstrating the potential of quantum computing to show insights into mRNA dynamics and offer a promising direction for advancing computational biology through quantum algorithms. Head over to the IBM Blog for an in-depth perspective about quantum’s potential industry-shifting impact in biotech: https://ibm.co/4bvPvwP