The IBM Quantum Computer and the IBM Quantum Experience

TL;DR

This paper introduces IBM's accessible quantum computer platform IBM Quantum Experience, explaining its tools, discussing decoherence issues, and demonstrating quantum teleportation as a practical application.

Contribution

It presents IBM-QE as an educational and scientific tool, detailing its quantum gates, analyzing decoherence, and showcasing quantum teleportation implementation.

Findings

IBM-QE provides accessible quantum computing tools

Decoherence sources identified in IBM 5-qubit chips

Quantum teleportation successfully implemented on IBM-QE

Abstract

The announcement of a quantum computer that can be accessed remotely by anyone from its laptop is a big event for the quantum computation scientist. In this work we present the International Business Machines (IBM) quantum computer and its platform IBM Quantum Experience (IBM-QE) as a didactic proposal in quantum computation and information. In addition we also consider this paper as scientific divulgation of the IMB advertisement. In this paper we show the main tool (quantum gates) present in the IBM-QE and, through a simple strategy, we discuss about a possible decoherence source in the IBM 5 q-bit chips. As an example of application of our study, we show how to implement the quantum teleportation using the IBM-QE.