Update qiskit-experiments tutorials

[coruscating]

Description

Qiskit-experiments is a new software package for doing qubit calibrations and experiments through Qiskit. You can see the current tutorials at https://qiskit.org/documentation/experiments/tutorials/index.html

We'd like to rewrite these tutorials as a step-by-step progression through an overview of basic features, running a simple experiment and saving the results, creating a new experiment, then advanced topics.

Mentor/s

I will be the mentor.

Type of participant

Someone passionate about technical writing who can understand, run, and test Python code.

Number of participants

1

Deliverable

A pull request of the updated tutorials.

[bicycle315]

Hi, I'm interested in this topic.

[iotaisolutions]

@coruscating I am interested

[HuangJunye]

@jaleipekoglu @spencerking Can you please comment in the issue so that I can assign you?

[jaleipekoglu]

Hi, I'm interested in this topic. @HuangJunye

[spencerking]

@HuangJunye I apologize for the delay

[bicycle315]

Qiskit_Template.pptx

[HuangJunye]

@bicycle315 Thanks for uploading your presentation! Can you please convert it to pdf format and rename it "#44
Update qiskit-experiments tutorials.pdf"? That would help me a lot. Thank you!

[HuangJunye]

@spencerking @jaleipekoglu If you are presenting individually, can you please also upload your presentations by the end of today? Thank you!

[jaleipekoglu]

@HuangJunye here is mine:
#44 Update qiskit-experiment tutorials.pptx

[spencerking]

@HuangJunye I am not able to attend either session so Jale is going to be providing my updates.

[HuangJunye]

@jaleipekoglu Thanks for uploading the presentation. Can you please upload a pdf version? That would help me a lot. Thank you.

[bicycle315]

Qiskit_Template_pdf.pdf
#44 Update qiskit-experiments tutorials.pdf

[jaleipekoglu]

@jaleipekoglu Thanks for uploading the presentation. Can you please upload a pdf version? That would help me a lot. Thank you.

#44 Update qiskit-experiment tutorials.pdf
@HuangJunye Sorry! Here is the PDF version.

[jaleipekoglu]

Checkpoint 2 Update:
As a reminder, I am working on refactoring calibration experiment tutorial.

Since Checkpoint 1 (Oct 7, 2021),

• I converted my draft Jupyter notebook to reStructuredText format, which all qiskit-experiments tutorials will be converted to eventually. 
• created my first pull request in qiskit-experiments ([WIP] Refactor tutorial for calibration experiments #499) and added my tutorial file for calibrating armonk with qiskit-experiments. 
• In the tutorial, I added a more in-depth analysis of the Rabi experiment and calculation of the amplitude for rabi-rate, which is the result of the experiment. 
• reused some of the sections from the current “Calibrating single-qubit gates on Armonk” tutorial, such as saving the calibration results and loading them back at a later point. 
• currently working on using the resulting amplitude in another experiment which will be DragCal experiment.
• and writing the explanations
• In the meantime, calibration and characterization experiments were refactored, and my current tutorial using Rabi experiment needs to be refactored, too, to use the latest versions of calibration classes.
• As the next steps, I will show a failure mode, i.e., what happens if we use a wrong amplitude for X pulse and plot the results.
• add some additional explanations from the code documentation
• check whether there are any unnecessary imports left in the tutorial document 
• My committed tutorial file on github is very primitive right now. I am going to finalize it using my draft Jupyter notebook.

[jaleipekoglu]

Checkpoint 2 Update Screenshots:

[spencerking]

Checkpoint 2 Update

Since the first checkpoint I have submitted two pull requests, one for refactoring an existing tutorial and another for the initial draft of a new tutorial. The refactor was for the cloud services tutorial and has been primarily just been a conversion of the existing Jupyter notebook into the reStructuredText format that will be used moving forward. The new tutorial shows how to subclass existing experiments to create new experiments. It is a little short at the moment, but additional examples may be added to it in the future.

I don't have anything to share for a visual reference to the project since all of my work so far has been reading about experiments and writing text.

[bicycle315]

Checkpoint 2 Update
At first checkpoint, I made a composite experiment using ParallelExperiment about characterizing multi qubits(T1, T2, frequencies).

• I added RB experiments on my existing composite experiment guide. This way my guide can provide a complete method for verifying a backend since it contains characterization of qubits and measuring the individual gate fideltities
• My guide would be a verification of the system(backend) whether it meets the required specification through the composite experimen
• Made a PR on qiskit-experiment : it's a guide for qubit characterization
• Changing my file to rst file.

[bicycle315]

Uploading 9b23fb64483062d80afb4d86579cbfec.pdf…

[bicycle315]

JWKim.pdf.pdf

[jaleipekoglu]

#44 Update qiskit-experiment tutorials-final - Jale Ipekoglu.pdf

[jaleipekoglu]

Here is my related PR for the calibration tutorial: qiskit-community/qiskit-experiments#499

[HuangJunye]

@jaleipekoglu Thanks for linking the PR here. @spencerking @bicycle315 Have you submitted your PRs for the project? Can you please provide the links here?

[HuangJunye]

I found this PR: qiskit-community/qiskit-experiments#511 by @bicycle315 .

[bicycle315]

@HuangJunye There's a problem related to using real backend in the tutorial. Im still waiting for the pr to be merged