Document a list of examples of which primitives to use in specific situations (support team request)

[beckykd]

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we've had some users having some trouble understanding a little bit all the primitives living everywhere - document which type of situation we should use which primitives

Noiseless simulation = exact simulation without sampling noise https://qiskit.github.io/qiskit-aer/stubs/qiskit_aer.primitives.Sampler.html#qiskit_aer.primitives.Sampler using sampler.run(…, shots=None) (old samplerV1 interface) Shotnoise simulation = shot-based ideal simulation, only noise is the sampling StatevectorSampler https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit/qiskit.primitives.StatevectorSampler https://qiskit.github.io/qiskit-aer/stubs/qiskit_aer.primitives.Sampler.html#qiskit_aer.primitives.Sampler (old samplerV1 interface) https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit-ibm-runtime/qiskit_ibm_runtime.SamplerV2 + ideal aer simulator https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/migration-guides/local-simulators#aersimulator Simulated device noise https://qiskit.github.io/qiskit-aer/stubs/qiskit_aer.primitives.Sampler.html#qiskit_aer.primitives.Sampler (old samplerV1 interface) https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit-ibm-runtime/qiskit_ibm_runtime.SamplerV2 + fake backend or aer simulator with noise Running on actual hardware https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit-ibm-runtime/qiskit_ibm_runtime.SamplerV2 + real backend from QiskitRuntimeService Not in this list :

Sampler v1 of Qiskit.primitives and qiskit-ibm-runtime : bound to be deprecated BaseSampler V1/V2 : abstract base class for each version that define a common interface for implementing primitives BackendSampler https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit/qiskit.primitives.BackendSampler ==> not that useful when running within the ibm quantum ecosystem Questions :

Are the aer primitives going to be updated to v2? https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/issues/2078 For case 2 : which one for what? For case 3 : which one for what? For case 2 and 3 : several ways to do the same thing, is there a plan to have only one in the future?

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I will write a draft of the proposed content

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