Introducing IBM Quantum Experience®

IBM Quantum Experience® is an open platform available for someone to start their quantum computing journey. In it, you have free access to a number of IBM quantum computers, ranging in size from a single qubit to 15 qubits (at the time of writing), as well as a 32-qubit simulator that runs on IBM POWER9™ hardware. That's a lot of power at your fingertips.

IBM Quantum Experience® opened its doors in May 2016, in a world-first announcement that the public would now have access to actual quantum computing hardware in the cloud. Since then, several other companies have announced similar initiatives and opened up for cloud quantum computing, initially on simulators. Notable among this crowd are Google, Microsoft, Rigetti, Qutech, and more. As of this book's writing, IBM gives free access to both hardware and software quantum computing through its IBM Quantum Experience®, we will focus on that platform.

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