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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.
Alex Khan
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.
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.
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!
Antoine Jacquier, Oleksiy Kondratyev, Alexander Lipton, Marcos...
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
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!
Jeremy Samuelson
Quantum computing is advancing rapidly, yet practical guidance for machine learning engineers remains limited. Most resources emphasize physics or theory, leaving practitioners unsure how quantum methods fit into real-world ML workflows. 'Quantum Machine Learning in Practice' addresses this gap with a hands-on, Python-first approach built for data scientists and ML engineers.Rather than presenting quantum models as replacements for classical ML, this book focuses on disciplined experimentation, hybrid architectures, and rigorous benchmarking. You will learn how classical data is encoded into quantum circuits, how variational models serve as classifiers and regressors, and how to evaluate quantum kernels and generative models responsibly. Concepts are grounded in simulator-based experiments using PennyLane, Qiskit, TensorFlow Quantum, and Cirq. Classical baselines are treated as first-class citizens throughout. You will design fair comparisons, analyze computational tradeoffs, and identify when classical ML remains superior. A complete end-to-end mini project reinforces transferable workflow skills, from problem framing through evaluation and interpretation.By the end, you will be able to design, implement, and critically assess hybrid quantum-classical machine learning systems with clarity and confidence.