{"id":91,"date":"2025-05-19T20:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:33:10","slug":"to-get-started","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/to-get-started\/","title":{"rendered":"To Get Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>To get started:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start Exploring:<\/strong>\u00a0Begin your quantum computing journey by visiting our website for tutorials.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you do not have a particular project at the moment but want to try a quantum program<\/strong>, here is a simple one and instructions on how to execute it on a simulator:<br>1. Download the quantum program:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/154\/2025\/05\/Entangle2_Simulator.zip\">Entangle2_AerSimulator.ipynb<\/a><br>2. Open your web browser and navigate to Google Colab by typing &#8220;colab.research.google.com&#8221; into the address bar.<br>3. Sign in with your Gmail account.<br>4. Open the downloaded quantum program (from step 1) in Google Colab.<br>5. Execute the program by clicking the &#8220;Run cell&#8221; button, located on the left side of the topmost cell. Wait for the execution to complete.<br>6. Continue executing each subsequent cell in order.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note:<br>-This quantum program prepares two qubits (q0 and q1). It uses an H gate to bring q0 into a superposition state, and then a CNOT gate to entangle q0 with q1.<br>-The program uses a simulator available via Google Colab.<br>-To execute it on a IBM Quantum System, please use&nbsp;this <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/154\/2025\/05\/Entangle2_IBMQuantum.zip\">program<\/a>&nbsp;instead. You will need your own <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.ibm.com\/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBM Cloud account <\/a> which will provide you with a unique API token to access the QPU&#8217;s.<br>-For more information about the quantum program, please visit the &#8220;Labs&#8221; section in <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"16\">QUITARs main page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get started: If you do not have a particular project at the moment but want to try a quantum program, here is a simple one and instructions on how to execute it on a simulator:1. Download the quantum program:&nbsp;Entangle2_AerSimulator.ipynb2. Open your web browser and navigate to Google Colab by typing &#8220;colab.research.google.com&#8221; into the address&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"115,124,130,126,118,132","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/quantum-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}