qiskit-ibm-provider 0.11.0

Description:

qiskitibmprovider 0.11.0

Qiskit IBM Quantum Provider (NOW DEPRECATED)







PLEASE NOTE: As of version 0.11.0, released in April 2024, qiskit-ibm-provider has been deprecated
with its support ending and eventual archival being no sooner than 3 months from that date. The
function provided by qiskit-ibm-provider has been moved to qiskit-ibm-runtime.
Please see the Runtime migration Guide for more details. We encourage you
to migrate over at your earliest convenience.

Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of circuits, algorithms, and application modules.
This project contains a provider that allows accessing the IBM Quantum
systems and simulators.
Migrating from qiskit-ibmq-provider
If you are familiar with the qiskit-ibmq-provider repository, check out the migration guide.
Installation
You can install the provider using pip:
pip install qiskit-ibm-provider

Provider Setup


Create an IBM Quantum account or log in to your existing account by visiting the IBM Quantum login page.


Copy (and/or optionally regenerate) your API token from your
IBM Quantum account page.


Take your token from step 2, here called MY_API_TOKEN, and save it by calling IBMProvider.save_account():
from qiskit_ibm_provider import IBMProvider
IBMProvider.save_account(token='MY_API_TOKEN')

The command above stores your credentials locally in a configuration file called qiskit-ibm.json. By default, this file is located in $HOME/.qiskit, where $HOME is your home directory.
Once saved you can then instantiate the provider like below and access the backends:
from qiskit_ibm_provider import IBMProvider
provider = IBMProvider()

# display current supported backends
print(provider.backends())

# get IBM's simulator backend
simulator_backend = provider.get_backend('ibmq_qasm_simulator')



Load Account from Environment Variables
Alternatively, the IBM Provider can discover credentials from environment variables:
export QISKIT_IBM_TOKEN='MY_API_TOKEN'

Then instantiate the provider without any arguments and access the backends:
from qiskit_ibm_provider import IBMProvider
provider = IBMProvider()

Enable Account for Current Session
As another alternative, you can also enable an account just for the current session by instantiating the provider with the token.
from qiskit_ibm_provider import IBMProvider
provider = IBMProvider(token='MY_API_TOKEN')

Next Steps
Now you're set up and ready to check out some of the tutorials.

IBM Quantum Learning
Qiskit

Contribution Guidelines
If you'd like to contribute to qiskit-ibm-provider, please take a look at our
contribution guidelines. This project adheres to Qiskit's code of conduct.
By participating, you are expect to uphold to this code.
We use GitHub issues for tracking requests and bugs. Please use our slack
for discussion and simple questions. To join our Slack community, use the
invite link here.
Authors and Citation
The Qiskit IBM Quantum Provider is the work of many people who contribute to the
project at different levels. If you use Qiskit, please cite as per the included
BibTeX file.
License
Apache License 2.0.