Qiskit Runtime overview¶
Speed up your quantum experiments on our systems in the cloud with an efficient and low-latency architecture.
Overview¶
Qiskit Runtime is a quantum computing service and programming model that allows users to optimize workloads and efficiently execute them on quantum systems at scale. The programming model extends the existing interface in Qiskit with a set of new primitives.
Key concepts¶
Primitives¶
Primitives provide a simplified interface for defining near-time quantum-classical workloads required to efficiently build and customize applications. The initial release of Qiskit Runtime includes two primitives: Estimator and Sampler. They perform foundational quantum computing tasks and act as an entry point to the Qiskit Runtime service.
Sampler¶
The Sampler primitive takes a circuit as an input and generates an error-mitigated readout of quasiprobabilities. This provides users a way to better evaluate shot results using error mitigation and enables them to more efficiently evaluate the possibility of multiple relevant data points in the context of destructive interference.
Estimator¶
The Estimator primitive takes circuits and observables and allows users to selectively group between circuits and observables for execution to efficiently evaluate expectation values and variances for a given parameter input. This primitive allows users to efficiently calculate and interpret expectation values of quantum operators required for many algorithms.