Reorganize workflow section

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -114,8 +114,6 @@ jobs:
         run: npm run check:spelling
       - name: Check Qiskit bot config
         run: npm run check:qiskit-bot
-      - name: Check Patterns index
-        run: npm run check:patterns-index
       - name: Check tutorials index
         run: python scripts/ci/check-tutorials-index.py
       - name: Internal link checker

check

@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ CHECKS = {
     "notebook linters": ["tox", "-e", "lint"],
     "all notebooks are tested": ["python3", "scripts/ci/check-all-notebooks-are-tested.py"],
     "Qiskit bot": ["npm", "run", "check:qiskit-bot"],
-    "patterns index pages": ["npm", "run", "check:patterns-index"],
     "tutorials index page": ["python3", "scripts/ci/check-tutorials-index.py"],
     "markdown": ["npm", "run", "check:markdown"],
     "orphan pages": ["npm", "run", "check:orphan-pages"],

docs/guides/_toc.json

@@ -49,28 +49,7 @@
         },
         {
           "title": "Development workflow",
-          "children": [
-            {
-              "title": "Introduction to Qiskit patterns",
-              "url": "/docs/guides/intro-to-patterns"
-            },
-            {
-              "title": "Map the problem to circuits",
-              "url": "/docs/guides/map-problem-to-circuits"
-            },
-            {
-              "title": "Optimize for hardware",
-              "url": "/docs/guides/optimize-for-hardware"
-            },
-            {
-              "title": "Execute on hardware",
-              "url": "/docs/guides/execute-on-hardware"
-            },
-            {
-              "title": "Post-process results",
-              "url": "/docs/guides/post-process-results"
-            }
-          ]
+          "url": "/docs/guides/intro-to-patterns"
         },
         {
           "title": "Latest updates",

docs/guides/configure-qiskit-local.mdx

@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ Set these environment variables to alter the default behavior of Qiskit:
 ## Next steps
 
 <Admonition type="tip" title="Recommendations">
-  - Learn how to [build circuits](./map-problem-to-circuits).
   - Try a tutorial, such as [Grover's algorithm](/docs/tutorials/grovers-algorithm).
   - [Run the Hello world program](/docs/tutorials/hello-world).
   - Read the [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) if you want to contribute to the open-source Qiskit SDK.

docs/guides/ibm-circuit-function.ipynb

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     "\n",
     "After submitting your PUB, your abstract circuits and observables are automatically transpiled, executed on hardware, and post-processed to return mitigated expectation values. To do so, this combines the following tools:\n",
     "\n",
-    "- [Qiskit Transpiler Service](./qiskit-transpiler-service), including auto-selection of AI-driven and heuristic transpilation passes to translate your abstract circuits to [hardware-optimized ISA circuits](/docs/guides/optimize-for-hardware)\n",
+    "- [Qiskit Transpiler Service](./qiskit-transpiler-service), including auto-selection of AI-driven and heuristic transpilation passes to translate your abstract circuits to hardware-optimized ISA circuits\n",
     "- [Error suppression and mitigation required for utility-scale computation](./error-mitigation-and-suppression-techniques), including measurement and gate twirling, dynamical decoupling, Twirled Readout Error eXtinction (TREX), Zero-Noise Extrapolation (ZNE), and Probabilistic Error Amplification (PEA)\n",
     "- [Qiskit Runtime Estimator](./get-started-with-primitives), to execute ISA PUBs on hardware and return mitigated expectation values\n",
     "\n",

docs/guides/install-qiskit-source.mdx

@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@ pip install -e ".[dev]"
 
 <Admonition type="tip" title="Recommendations">
   - Read the [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) to contribute to the open-source Qiskit SDK.
-  - Learn how to [build circuits](./map-problem-to-circuits).
   - [Run the Hello world program](/docs/tutorials/hello-world).
   - Try a tutorial, such as [Grover's algorithm](/docs/tutorials/grovers-algorithm).
 </Admonition>

docs/guides/intro-to-patterns.mdx

@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 ---
-title: Introduction to Qiskit patterns
-description: Qiskit patterns are the broad steps employed when running a domain-specific problem on quantum hardware.
+title: Development workflow
+description: A Qiskit pattern is the set of broad steps to use when running a domain-specific problem on quantum hardware.
 ---
 
-# Introduction to Qiskit patterns
+# Development workflow
 
-A Qiskit pattern is a general framework for breaking down domain-specific problems and contextualizing required capabilities in stages. This allows for the seamless composability of new capabilities developed by IBM Quantum® researchers (and others) and enables a future in which quantum computing tasks are performed by powerful heterogenous (CPU/GPU/QPU) computing infrastructure. Blocks or groups of blocks perform the steps of a pattern, with the Qiskit SDK providing an important foundational layer, supported by other tools or services developed by IBM Quantum or the quantum open-source community. Qiskit patterns allow domain experts to specify a problem and compose the tooling (blocks) that achieves a Qiskit pattern. That pattern can then be executed locally, through cloud services, or deployed with Qiskit Serverless.
+The term *Qiskit pattern* describes the development workflow for breaking down domain-specific problems and contextualizing required capabilities in stages. This allows for the seamless composability of new capabilities developed by IBM Quantum® researchers (and others) and enables a future in which quantum computing tasks are performed by powerful heterogenous (CPU/GPU/QPU) computing infrastructure. Blocks or groups of blocks perform the steps of a pattern, with the Qiskit SDK providing an important foundational layer, supported by other tools or services developed by IBM Quantum or the quantum open-source community. Qiskit patterns allow domain experts to specify a problem and compose the tooling (blocks) that achieves a Qiskit pattern. That pattern can then be executed locally, through cloud services, or deployed with Qiskit Serverless.
 
 
 The four steps of a Qiskit pattern are as follows:
-- [**Map** problem to quantum circuits and operators](./map-problem-to-circuits)
-- [**Optimize** for target hardware](./optimize-for-hardware)
-- [**Execute** on target hardware](./execute-on-hardware)
-- [**Post-process** results](./post-process-results)
 
-![All Qiskit pattern steps are shown (Map the problem, Optimize for hardware, Execute on hardware, and Post-process results). All steps except 'Execute on hardware' use the Qiskit SDK. Optimizing for hardware additionally uses the Qiskit Transpiler Service.  Executing on hardware uses only the Qiskit Runtime Service.](/docs/images/qiskit-patterns/patterns.svg)
+- **Map** problem to quantum circuits and operators 
+- **Optimize** for target hardware
+- **Execute** on target hardware
+- **Post-process** results
 
 Each step is detailed in the sections below.
 
@@ -41,48 +40,8 @@ This step involves running your circuits on hardware and produces the outputs of
 
 Depending on whether you are using the Sampler or Estimator primitive, the outcome of this step will be different. If using the Sampler, the output will be per-shot measurements in the form of bitstrings. If using the Estimator, the output will be expectation values of observables corresponding to physical quantities or cost functions.
 
-
 ## Post-process results
 
 This final step involves stitching the outputs from the prior step back together to obtain the desired result. This can involve a range of classical data-processing steps such as visualizing results, readout error mitigation techniques, marginalizing quasi-probability distributions to ascertain results on smaller sets of qubits, or post-selection on inherent properties of the problem, such as total spin, parity, or particle conservation by removing unphysical observables.
 
-
-
----
-
-
 As the field moves from bespoke circuit construction to utility-scale workflows, the flexibility and ease with which Qiskit patterns allow users to compose the different steps of the pattern opens quantum computing to a wide variety of applications and techniques for easy use by quantum computational scientists.
-
-## Guides demonstrating Qiskit patterns in action
-
-### Guides focused on one or more pattern steps
-
-* [Map the problem to quantum circuits and operators](/docs/guides/map-problem-to-circuits)
-* [Optimize for target hardware](/docs/guides/optimize-for-hardware)
-* [Execute on target hardware](/docs/guides/execute-on-hardware)
-* [Post-process results](/docs/guides/post-process-results)
-
-### Guides focused on the full patterns workflow
-
-- [Qiskit Serverless](/docs/guides/serverless)
-  * [Overview of Qiskit Serverless](./serverless)
-  * [Write your first Qiskit Serverless program](./serverless-first-program)
-  * [Run your first Qiskit Serverless workload remotely](./serverless-run-first-workload)
-  * [Manage Qiskit Serverless compute and data resources](./serverless-manage-resources)
-  * [Port code to Qiskit Serverless](./serverless-port-code)
-
-- [Qiskit Functions](/docs/guides/functions)
-  * [Kipu Quantum Iskay Quantum Optimizer](/docs/guides/kipu-optimization)
-  * [Multiverse Computing Singularity](/docs/guides/multiverse-computing-singularity)
-  * [Q-CTRL Optimization Solver](/docs/guides/q-ctrl-optimization-solver)
-  * [Quantum Portfolio Optimizer: A Qiskit Function by Global Data Quantum](/docs/guides/global-data-quantum-optimizer)
-  * [QUICK-PDE: A Qiskit Function by ColibriTD](/docs/guides/colibritd-pde)
-  * [Qunova Computing HI-VQE Chemistry](/docs/guides/qunova-chemistry)
-
-## Next steps
-
-<Admonition type="tip" title="Recommendations">
-  -  Explore each step in a Qiskit pattern in more detail, starting with [Map the problem to quantum circuits and operators](./map-problem-to-circuits).
-  -  Run a full example of a Qiskit pattern in the [CHSH inequality tutorial](/docs/tutorials/chsh-inequality).
-</Admonition>
-