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Dancing with Qubits - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636754
Pages 684 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Robert S. Sutor Robert S. Sutor
Profile icon Robert S. Sutor

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface I Foundations
Why Quantum Computing They’re Not Old, They’re Classics More Numbers Than You Can Imagine Planes and Circles and Spheres, Oh My Dimensions 6 What Do You Mean “Probably”? II Quantum Computing
One Qubit Two Qubits, Three Wiring Up the Circuits From Circuits to Algorithms Getting Physical III Advanced Topics
Considering NISQ Algorithms Introduction to Quantum Machine Learning Questions about the Future Afterword
A Quick Reference B Notices C Production Notes Other Books You May Enjoy
References
Index
Appendices

C.1 How this book was built

I wrote the content for this book primarily in HTML, augmented with LaTeX in tag attributes. Additional content included:

  • Static JPG images.
  • LaTeX files using packages including tikz, circuitikz, and quantikz. I processed these with pdflatex and then the convert utility from ImageMagick to create JPG images.
  • Python files using matplotlib for plots and charts. I ran these in batch mode to generate JPG images.

For many images, especially those I generated, I used convert from ImageMagick to remove extra surrounding whitespace.

I wrote several Python scripts to generate the book and features within it, such as index marking. For example, one script processed HTML chapter files and extracted the Python code. The script then ran the code through Jupyter in noninteractive mode to capture all Python output. Jupyter`app-name

I used Python and the package python-docx to create a Microsoft...

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