The QuEra Bootcamp
Recently, I attended a QuEra Bootcamp on Neutral Atom Quantum Computing through the Womanium Quantum Global Program. QuEra Computing is the leading provider of quantum computers based on neutral atoms. The boot camp was conducted by Pedro Lopes.
Firstly, he introduced us to qbraid. qbraid is a cloud platform for quantum software development. Using qBraid SDK, we can harness about 20+ quantum computers and simulators including QuEra. (also others, such as IBM, Oxford Quantum Circuits, Rigetti, and Amazon Braket.)
In the jupyter notebooks, we made use of Bloqade, which is a Julia programming language package for quantum computation and quantum dynamics based on neutral-atom architecture. Bloqade is currently managed by QuEra.
QuEra also provided us with highly interactive and informative jupyter notebooks to work through and learn as we go. It is available on their GitHub repository so you can always check that out. You will be required to launch the lab using qbraid. Below is a sneak-peak from the jupyter notebook that I was running on my laptop.
After installing Julia on our system and importing all the required packages, we then learned how to create graphs and go about positioning our atoms on it. Our aim here was to learn how to solve Maximal Independent Set Problems where the atoms would act as vertices. The arbitrary image given below is similar to how our results would look like by the end of it.
Overall, it was a very educational and fun experience to learn about this technology and its applications. I would like to thank all our educators for providing us with such invaluable resources.
