Community - terra

[jaygambetta]

Description

I would like to have some thinking about how we arrange community terra. It should have some structure inside so that the awesome inputs from the community are useful for people wanting to learn about quantum information science using qiskit.

We have many great tutorials and there needs a great path off learning.

The landing from the main file is 3.4 Quantum Information Science with Qiskit Terra Learn about and how to program quantum circuits using Qiskit Terra.

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[jaygambetta]

@attp can you think about this and use this issue to make a plan.

[muneerqu]

I am going to reference some updates on some tutorials in community/terra to run on Qiskit 0.6.1. I would appreciate any feedback.

[jaygambetta]

I’m not sure I know what you mean.

[muneerqu]

I updated some notebooks and I am wondering if I should create a PR or reference the changes here for review/feedback before I create the PR.

[jaygambetta]

Making a PR would be great.

[attp]

Initial plan to have a set of introductory notebooks introducing superposition & entanglement: Single Qubits: Superposition Single Qubits: Amplitude and Phase Multiple Qubits: Creating Entanglement Multiple Qubits: Testing Entanglement Multiple Qubits: Teleportation and Superdense Coding

[attp]

I see the tutorials in this folder fall into a few categories:

1. examples of terra (eg. beginners_guide_composer_examples and matplotlib_circuit_drawer)
2. introduction to qis concepts (eg. ones listed in the current readme)
3. other qis concepts (eg. topological_quantum_walk, finite_automata, w states, wigner functions)
4. qec (eg. repetition code)

I propose splitting the community folder into subfolders along these themes:

• terra/qis_intro
• terra/qis_adv
• terra/qec (and we write a couple of tutorials on the 3 qubit bit flip and phase flip codes, and shor's 9 qubit code) and we remove the beginner's guide example, since there is now Qiskit code in the QX user guides, and move the content in the circuit drawing tutorial into qiskit/basics, either as a standalone tutorial or as part of the visualisation one.

What do people think? @jaygambetta, @quantumjim, @rraymondhp, ?

[quantumjim]

The introductory set of notebooks sound good. Maybe some of the proposed topics could be combined (like a single notebook for creating and testing entanglement), but such things probably only become clear in the writing.

I wonder if it might be possible to include little code challenges in these. Where we leave a code block for people to add in some qiskit code, with the aim of creating some specified set of results.

For the time being, I see no reason to split qec out from qis_adv (unless we are happy with a folder that currently only has one thing in). But being a rather qec focused person, I agree that there should be more content on this topic and that it should get its own folder when that comes.

[quantumjim]

I had not noticed that the intro notebooks mentioned by @attp are ones that already exist. So some of what I said above is nonsense, but it still might be nice to see if more exercises could be fitted into them somehow.

[jaygambetta]

I like the introductory ones and think the folder is good. I don’t like what I wrote in amplitude and phase and I would make it more like the user guide i updated. Have you looked at that

[attp]

Thanks for your input @quantumjim and @jaygambetta, I'll:

1. set up the structure with qis-intro, qis-adv, qec. I like the idea of having a folder with one tutorial, and asking for contributions.
2. rework the introductory tutorials to be more accessible (I'll have a look at the QX user guide as well) and add exercises (great idea!),
3. update the advanced ones for qiskit 0.6 (I see that @muneerqu is doing some of these as well).

[jaygambetta]

Sounds great.

[jaygambetta]

@attp I think we can close this and you can make a new one to change it. Do you agree.

[attp]

yes, I agree, the initial rearranging is complete.