Want to get your hands dirty with real quantum circuits? 💻⚛️
This post walks you through everything in Qiskit Lab 1 — from installing Qiskit to implementing quantum teleportation. Whether you’re brand new to quantum or just starting with Qiskit, you’re in the right place!
Credit: This blog is writen based on the video from IBM Qiskit "Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Hardware — Lab 1"
🧑🎓 What is Qiskit Global Summer School?
The Qiskit Global Summer School is an educational series hosted by IBM to teach quantum computing through hands-on labs.
Each day, participants receive:
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👨🏫 A recorded lecture (like Lab 1)
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📦 A downloadable Jupyter Notebook lab
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💬 Community support via Discord
And guess what? You get to run real code on IBM quantum computers. 🚀
💾 Setting Up: Installing Qiskit
Before diving into the labs, you’ll need Qiskit installed.
Follow the guide lines from IBM to install the Qiskit: https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/guides/install-qiskit
I prefer to install anaconda, then create an environment for Qiskit and then install Qiskit. You also can do the same procedure with me.
🧪 What is Quantum Teleportation?
Quantum teleportation is not about “beaming” things like in Star Trek 😅 — it’s about transferring quantum information (a qubit’s state) from one place to another using entanglement + classical communication.
🪄 How It Works (Step-by-Step)
- Initialize the qubit you want to teleport
- Create an entangled pair between sender (Alice) and receiver (Bob)
- Perform a Bell-state measurement on Alice’s qubits
- Send classical results to Bob
- Bob applies gates based on Alice’s results
- Voilà! Bob now has the teleported state 🎉
📊 Flowchart:
🔨 Lab 1: Your First Quantum Challenge
In this lab, you’ll:
• Learn the difference between classical bits and quantum qubits
• Practice visualizing qubit states on the Bloch sphere
• Build and test a full quantum teleportation protocol
You’ll write Python code in Qiskit like:
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit qc = QuantumCircuit(3, 2) # Step 1: Initialize state # Step 2: Entangle qubits # Step 3: Bell measurement # Step 4: Apply conditional gates
Each code block is clearly marked like this:
# Write your code between these lines ### START CODE HERE ### ### END CODE HERE ###
Download the lecture notes here
Download the lab notebook (and solutions) for the last three lectures here
📤 Submitting Your WorkAt the end of the notebook:
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Enter your name and email
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Run the last cell to submit your graded challenge
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You’ll see whether your teleportation implementation was successful!
✅ You can re-run it as many times as needed!
🧠 Helpful Quantum Concepts (Explained Simply)
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Term |
Meaning |
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Qubit |
A quantum version of a bit: can be 0, 1, or both (superposition) |
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Superposition |
A qubit can exist in multiple states at once |
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Entanglement |
A strong connection between qubits — changing one affects the other |
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Measurement |
Collapses a qubit to either 0 or 1 |
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Bell state |
A maximally entangled state |
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Bloch Sphere |
A 3D visualization of a qubit’s state |
📬 Final Thoughts
This lab is a perfect first step into quantum computing:
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You install the tools
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Run code in Jupyter
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Learn real quantum protocols
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Use actual quantum hardware (or simulators)
And most importantly: you get hands-on experience with one of the most mind-bending concepts in physics — quantum teleportation. 🌌
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