Quantum Chemistry and Computing for the Curious. Illustrated with Python and Qiskit® code

Keeper L. Sharkey, Alain Chancé, Alex Khan

Explore quantum chemical concepts and the postulates of quantum mechanics in a modern fashion, with the intent to see how chemistry and computing intertwine. Along the way you’ll relate these concepts to quantum information theory and computation. We build a framework of computational tools that lead you through traditional computational methods and straight to the forefront of exciting opportunities. These opportunities will rely on achieving next-generation accuracy by going further than the standard approximations such as beyond Born-Oppenheimer calculations.Discover how leveraging quantum chemistry and computing is a key enabler for overcoming major challenges in the broader chemical industry. The skills that you will learn can be utilized to solve new-age business needs that specifically hinge on quantum chemistry

Quantum Computing Algorithms. Discover how a little math goes a long way

Barry Burd

Navigate the quantum computing spectrum with this book, bridging the gap between abstract, math-heavy texts and math-avoidant beginner guides. Unlike intermediate-level books that often leave gaps in comprehension, this all-encompassing guide offers the missing links you need to truly understand the subject.Balancing intuition and rigor, this book empowers you to become a master of quantum algorithms. No longer confined to canned examples, you'll acquire the skills necessary to craft your own quantum code. Quantum Computing Algorithms is organized into four sections to build your expertise progressively.The first section lays the foundation with essential quantum concepts, ensuring that you grasp qubits, their representation, and their transformations. Moving to quantum algorithms, the second section focuses on pivotal algorithms — specifically, quantum key distribution and teleportation.The third section demonstrates the transformative power of algorithms that outpace classical computation and makes way for the fourth section, helping you to expand your horizons by exploring alternative quantum computing models.By the end of this book, quantum algorithms will cease to be mystifying as you make this knowledge your asset and enter a new era of computation, where you have the power to shape the code of reality.

Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business. Exploring the applications, challenges, and collision of quantum computing and blockchain

Arunkumar Krishnakumar

Are quantum computing and Blockchain on a collision course or will they be the most important trends of this decade to disrupt industries and life as we know it?Fintech veteran and venture capitalist Arunkumar Krishnakumar cuts through the hype to bring us a first-hand look into how quantum computing and Blockchain together are redefining industries, including fintech, healthcare, and research. Through a series of interviews with domain experts, he also explores these technologies’ potential to transform national and global governance and policies – from how elections are conducted and how smart cities can be designed and optimized for the environment, to what cyberwarfare enabled by quantum cryptography might look like. In doing so, he also highlights challenges that these technologies have to overcome to go mainstream.Quantum Computing and Blockchain in Business explores the potential changes that quantum computing and Blockchain might bring about in the real world. After expanding on the key concepts and techniques, such as applied cryptography, qubits, and digital annealing, that underpin quantum computing and Blockchain, the book dives into how major industries will be impacted by these technologies. Lastly, we consider how the two technologies may come together in a complimentary way.

Quantum Computing Experimentation with Amazon Braket. Explore Amazon Braket quantum computing to solve combinatorial optimization problems

Alex Khan, Matthew R. Versaggi

Amazon Braket is a cloud-based pay-per-use platform for executing quantum algorithms on cutting-edge quantum computers and simulators. It is ideal for developing robust apps with the latest quantum devices.With this book, you'll take a hands-on approach to learning how to take real-world problems and run them on quantum devices. You'll begin with an introduction to the Amazon Braket platform and learn about the devices currently available on the platform, their benefits, and their purpose. Then, you'll review key quantum concepts and algorithms critical to converting real-world problems into a quantum circuit or binary quadratic model based on the appropriate device and its capability. The book also covers various optimization use cases, along with an explanation of the code. Finally, you'll work with a framework using code examples that will help to solve your use cases with quantum and quantum-inspired technologies. Later chapters cover custom-built functions and include almost 200 figures and diagrams to visualize key concepts. You’ll be able to scan the capabilities provided by Amazon Braket and explore the functions to adapt them for specific use cases.By the end of this book, you’ll have the tools to integrate your current business apps and AWS data with Amazon Braket to solve constrained and multi-objective optimization problems.

Quantum Computing in Practice with Qiskit(R) and IBM Quantum Experience(R). Practical recipes for quantum computer coding at the gate and algorithm level with Python

Hassi Norlen

IBM Quantum Experience® is a leading platform for programming quantum computers and implementing quantum solutions directly on the cloud. This book will help you get up to speed with programming quantum computers and provide solutions to the most common problems and challenges.You’ll start with a high-level overview of IBM Quantum Experience® and Qiskit®, where you will perform the installation while writing some basic quantum programs. This introduction puts less emphasis on the theoretical framework and more emphasis on recent developments such as Shor’s algorithm and Grover’s algorithm. Next, you’ll delve into Qiskit®, a quantum information science toolkit, and its constituent packages such as Terra, Aer, Ignis, and Aqua. You’ll cover these packages in detail, exploring their benefits and use cases. Later, you’ll discover various quantum gates that Qiskit® offers and even deconstruct a quantum program with their help, before going on to compare Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) and Universal Fault-Tolerant quantum computing using simulators and actual hardware. Finally, you’ll explore quantum algorithms and understand how they differ from classical algorithms, along with learning how to use pre-packaged algorithms in Qiskit® Aqua.By the end of this quantum computing book, you’ll be able to build and execute your own quantum programs using IBM Quantum Experience® and Qiskit® with Python.

Quantum Computing with Silq Programming. Get up and running with quantum computing with the simplicity of this new high-level programming language

Srinjoy Ganguly, Thomas Cambier

Quantum computing is a growing field, with many research projects focusing on programming quantum computers in the most efficient way possible. One of the biggest challenges faced with existing languages is that they work on low-level circuit model details and are not able to represent quantum programs accurately. Developed by researchers at ETH Zurich after analyzing languages including Q# and Qiskit, Silq is a high-level programming language that can be viewed as the C++ of quantum computers! Quantum Computing with Silq Programming helps you explore Silq and its intuitive and simple syntax to enable you to describe complex tasks with less code. This book will help you get to grips with the constructs of the Silq and show you how to write quantum programs with it. You’ll learn how to use Silq to program quantum algorithms to solve existing and complex tasks. Using quantum algorithms, you’ll also gain practical experience in useful applications such as quantum error correction, cryptography, and quantum machine learning. Finally, you’ll discover how to optimize the programming of quantum computers with the simple Silq.By the end of this Silq book, you’ll have mastered the features of Silq and be able to build efficient quantum applications independently.

Quantum GIS. Tworzenie i analiza map

Bartłomiej Iwańczak

Twórz mapy i wykorzystuj je do swoich celów! Współczesny świat stawia przed nami wiele wyzwań. Nieustannie się dokształcamy, poznajemy nowe obszary wiedzy. Uczymy się wykorzystywać je do własnych celów. Coraz rzadziej zwracamy się do profesjonalistów z problemami, gdyż dzięki technologii jesteśmy w stanie poradzić sobie sami. Odkrywamy przy tym mnóstwo nowych, inspirujących aspektów życia. Dzięki tej książce można opanować podstawy bardzo przydatnej, choć do tej pory specjalistycznej dziedziny - kartografii i analizy danych przestrzennych. W dodatku bez dodatkowych kosztów - w darmowym, intuicyjnym programie Quantum GIS. Mapy potrzebne są wszystkim, nie tylko geografom! Jeśli pracujesz jako informatyk, logistyk, marketingowiec, dziennikarz, urzędnik czy architekt, prędzej czy później zechcesz przedstawić zgromadzone informacje w sposób wizualny, najlepiej na mapie. Dzięki tej książce bez większego trudu, a nawet z przyjemnością opanujesz zasady rysowania mapy, nanoszenia na nią obiektów według danych zawartych w tabeli, wyświetlania tych informacji, które są Ci potrzebne. Dowiesz się, jak planować trasę przewozu towarów, jak sprytnie policzyć budynki w każdej dzielnicy miasta czy jak najefektywniej rozsyłać ofertę handlową. Nauczysz się dowolnie zmieniać wygląd map, przekształcać je w obrazy i drukować lub umieszczać w Internecie. Nie jest to zwyczajny podręcznik. Wraz z tą książką będziesz krok po kroku zdobywać nowe umiejętności. Towarzyszyć Ci będzie młoda dziewczyna, Ula. Niejeden raz podsunie Ci użyteczną wskazówkę albo podpowie, co warto zapamiętać. Dzięki atrakcyjnej formie graficznej i ponad 300 ilustracjom zawsze zorientujesz się, gdzie w programie można znaleźć odpowiednie narzędzie. Analiza danych przestrzennych nie będzie miała dla Ciebie żadnych tajemnic. Do dzieła! Dzięki tej książce: ogarniesz wzrokiem przestrzeń i stworzysz mapę z Quantum GIS, poznasz serce współczesnej mapy w komputerze, zwiększysz użyteczność działania z pomocą narzędzi analitycznych QGIS. Odkryj dla siebie nową przestrzeń!

Quantum Machine Learning and Optimisation in Finance. Drive financial innovation with quantum-powered algorithms and optimisation strategies - Second Edition

Antoine Jacquier, Oleksiy Kondratyev, Alexander Lipton, Marcos López de Prado

As quantum machine learning (QML) continues to evolve, many professionals struggle to apply its powerful algorithms to real-world problems using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. This book bridges that gap by focusing on hands-on QML applications tailored to NISQ systems, moving beyond the traditional textbook approaches that explore standard algorithms like Shor's and Grover's, which lie beyond current NISQ capabilities.You’ll get to grips with major QML algorithms that have been widely studied for their transformative potential in finance and learn hybrid quantum-classical computational protocols, the most effective way to leverage quantum and classical computing systems together.The authors, Antoine Jacquier, a distinguished researcher in quantum computing and stochastic analysis, and Oleksiy Kondratyev, a Quant of the Year awardee with over 20 years in quantitative finance, offer a hardware-agnostic perspective. They present a balanced view of both analog and digital quantum computers, delving into the fundamental characteristics of the algorithms while highlighting the practical limitations of today’s quantum hardware.By the end of this quantum book, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the significance of quantum computing in finance and the skills needed to apply QML to solve complex challenges, driving innovation in your work.

Quantum Machine Learning and Optimisation in Finance. On the Road to Quantum Advantage

Antoine Jacquier, Oleksiy Kondratyev, Alexander Lipton, Marcos López de Prado

With recent advances in quantum computing technology, we finally reached the era of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computing. NISQ-era quantum computers are powerful enough to test quantum computing algorithms and solve hard real-world problems faster than classical hardware.Speedup is so important in financial applications, ranging from analysing huge amounts of customer data to high frequency trading. This is where quantum computing can give you the edge. Quantum Machine Learning and Optimisation in Finance shows you how to create hybrid quantum-classical machine learning and optimisation models that can harness the power of NISQ hardware.This book will take you through the real-world productive applications of quantum computing. The book explores the main quantum computing algorithms implementable on existing NISQ devices and highlights a range of financial applications that can benefit from this new quantum computing paradigm.This book will help you be one of the first in the finance industry to use quantum machine learning models to solve classically hard real-world problems. We may have moved past the point of quantum computing supremacy, but our quest for establishing quantum computing advantage has just begun!

Quaramonte: Tajemnica wyspy

Aleksandra Rak

Eileen, córka kapitana floty królewskiej, pomagając nieznanemu rozbitkowi ukryć się przed strażą, nie zdaje sobie sprawy z konsekwencje tego czynu. Nolan okazuje się być niebezpiecznym piratem, a jego kamraci postanawiają uratować go za wszelką cenę. W efekcie porywają dziewczynę i zabierają ją na Quaramonte – tajemniczą piracką wyspę, której nie ma na żadnej mapie. Eileen cudem udaje się uniknąć śmierci. Za wszelką cenę pragnie wrócić do ojca i ukochanego, którzy zostali na jej rodzinnej Naori. Zawiera więc umowę z jednym z piratów, nie spodziewa się jednak, że wyprawa, w której weźmie udział całkowicie odmieni jej życie. Losy Eileen, choć równie burzliwe jak ocean w trakcie sztormu może ostatecznie doprowadzą ją do rodzinnego domu i ramion ukochanego.   Piraci, ocean, tajemnicze medaliony i jedna dziewczyna. Dajcie się porwać przygodzie i wraz z Eileen wyruszcie, by odkryć tajemnice Quaramonte. Aleksandra Rak stworzyła historię, która przenosi czytelników do magicznego świata wypełnionego zapachem słonej wody oraz brzękiem pirackiej stali. Jeżeli uwielbiacie przygody, nie wahajcie się ani chwili. „Tajemnica Wyspy” to pozycja, po która warto sięgnąć. Agnieszka Zawadka, autorka powieści „Wyklęci: Era Cieni”   „Quaramonte: Tajemnica Wyspy” zachwyca swym pięknem, lecz piracki świat pełen jest intryg, niebezpieczeństw i tajemnic. Aleksandra Rak przywołuje historie morskich rozbójników, nadając im nowego, fantastycznego wymiaru pełnego zapierających dech w piersiach przygód z honorowymi bohaterami w roli głównej. Aleksandra Pisarska, autorka powieści „Malachitowe ostrze”

Quatrevingt-treize

Victor Hugo

Lanéé 1793, Bretagne du nord. Quatre-vingt-treize est un récit de lépoque de la Révolution française et aussi une histoire de trois personnages symboliques: un vieil aristocrate, le marquis de Lantenac, son neveu, Gauvain, un noble rattaché aux humbles Cimourdain, pere adoptif de Gauvain. Ici il y a les situations angoissantes et beaucoup de rebondissements. Pris en presse entre la loi et la raison, que décident Tellmarch, Gauvin, Cimourdain? Suis je hors la loi? Je nen sais rien. Mourir de faim, est ce tre dans la loi?

Quattuor Insanitas

Adrian K. Antosik

Ludzki umysł skrywa wiele sekretów, a gdy człowiek zaczyna chorować czasem ciężko odróżnić mu, co jest fikcją a co prawdą. Czasami wyraźna granica zanika, a świat zaczyna wydawać się wrogi i straszny, gdy człowiek zatraca samego siebie. Czasami budzą się instynkty, o których istnieniu człowiek nie miał pojęcia i staje się zagrożeniem dla innychKsiążka Quattuor Insanitas (z łac. cztery szaleństwa) to zbiór czterech opowiadań, w których bohaterowie przez chorobę dopuszczają się strasznych czynów i zbrodni. Czy znajdzie się ktoś, kto ich powstrzyma? Bo jak odróżnić chorego psychicznie mordercę od zwykłego człowieka jeśli nie wyróżnia ich nic szczególnegoAdrian K. AntosikSzczecinianin, urodzony w 1988 roku. Jako gimnazjalista podjął pierwsze próby w świecie literackim, które po latach ukazały się w zbiorowym tomiku wierszy i jako elektroniczna książka. Publikował wiersze na stronie internetowego wydawnictwa www.zaszafie.pl. W ramach współpracy z internetowym wydawnictwem Goneta.net wydał tomiki wierszy takie jak Słowa pisane na skrawku papieru czy elektroniczne książki takie jak Plemię. Wziął udział w projekcie organizowanym pod patronatem internetowego wydawnictwa www.bezkartek.pl, którego wynikiem było napisanie i wydanie internetowej książki pt. Płomień Śmierci.

Queen Cleopatra

Talbot Mundy

Queen Cleopatra and Julius Caesar this is probably the most famous majestic love story with the calculation of all time, which changed the entire course of ancient history! Cleopatra was a brave, charming beauty of a cruel and courageous ruler who preferred to save Egypt at all costs, even if one had to challenge the most powerful ruler whom the world knew. Julius Caesar had absolute power and authority, the glory of being a skilful lover and an insistence on leaving Rome the most powerful city. The clash of these two great historical figures is mentioned in this book.

Queen Elizabeth

Jacob Abbott

What else can impress in the history of Queen Elizabeth? However, Jacob Abbott was able to show us the other secret aspects of the queens life. The author is doing a tremendous job describing the area in which she lived, as well as a thorough description of the people who formed her. She was a queen to be admired.

Queen Lucia

E.F. Benson

The village of Rieseholm worships Queen Lucia. She completely commands the village, the ever-benevolent dictator of all things that really matter. However, someone had the pleasure of overthrowing a queen so great. And it was Olga Braisley, an opera singer from London. She is a real celebrity, not at all like that queen. Can she do it?

Queen of Hearts

Fred M. White

Loving woman possesses charms. And not every man can resist them. So our hero, Tom Gilchrist, was fascinated by the beauty of the girl. His uncle, Sir Walter Vanguard warns that this is a bad idea. Perhaps he is right.