A Qiskit tutorial that covers `UnitarySyntheisPlugin` and Approximate Quantum Compiler as an implementation

[adekusar-drl]

Description

Recently a new extension was introduced in Qiskit's transpiler - a unitary synthesis plugin API (https://qiskit.org/documentation/apidoc/transpiler_plugins.html). This API provides a hook point for external python packages to implement their own synthesis techniques and have them seamlessly exposed as opt-in options to users when they run. The aim of this project is to write a new tutorial that explains the plugin API and a particular implementation of this plugin, approximate quantum compiler (https://qiskit.org/documentation/apidoc/synthesis_aqc.html) that was introduced at the same time as the plugin API. The proposed tutorial should give a comprehensive point of view to unitary synthesis, API, and AQC from an end-user point of view and from a Qiskit developer perspective.

Deliverables

A tutorial, jupyter notebook for Qiskit Terra that covers three main topics: unitary syntheis, plugin API and approximate quantum compiler.

Mentors details

Anton Dekusar, @adekusar-drl Research Software Engineer / Qiskit Machine Learning contributor

Number of mentees

1

Type of mentees

What is required:

• Excellent writing skills and proficiency in jupyter notebook
• Proficiency in quantum computing
• Good knowledge of Qiskit transpiler would be really helpful

[HuangJunye]

Closing this issue as it was not paired with any mentees