Merge pull request #651 from haimeng-zhang/upgrade-to-qiskit-1.2

Resolve the credential authentication issue for the `ibm_cloud` users

_common/qiskit/execute.py

@@ -379,12 +379,12 @@ def set_execution_target(backend_id='qasm_simulator',
                 Session
                 )
 
-            if use_ibm_quantum_platform or hub and group and project:
-                channel = "ibm_quantum"
-                instance = f"{hub}/{group}/{project}"
-            else:
+            if not use_ibm_quantum_platform:
                 channel = "ibm_cloud"
                 instance = None
+            else:
+                channel = "ibm_quantum"
+                instance = f"{hub}/{group}/{project}"
             print(f"... using Qiskit Runtime {channel=} {instance=}")
 
             backend_name = backend_id

benchmarks-qiskit.ipynb

@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
     "\n",
     "# # ==========================\n",
     "# # *** If using IBMQ hardware, run this once to authenticate\n",
-    "# from qiskit import IBMQ\n",
-    "# IBMQ.save_account('YOUR_API_TOKEN_HERE')\n",
+    "# from qiskit_ibm_runtime import QiskitRuntimeService\n",
+    "# QiskitRuntimeService.save_account('YOUR_API_TOKEN_HERE')\n",
     "\n",
     "# # *** If you are part of an IBMQ group, set hub, group, and project name here\n",
     "# hub=\"YOUR_HUB_NAME\"; group=\"YOUR_GROUP_NAME\"; project=\"YOUR_PROJECT_NAME\"\n",