## Top new questions this week:

### Why do I get this extra factor when working out the dynamics of an adiabatic quantum computation?

I was trying to revise my understanding of adiabatic quantum computation via a simple example. I'm familiar with the overall concept -- that you have an overall Hamiltonian $$H(s)=(1-s)H_0+s H_f$$ ...

 answered by Jonathan Trousdale 1 vote

### Characteristics of the IBM quantum computer

On the IBM Quantum Composer website, there are characteristics of qubit computers. For example, ibmq_16_melbourne. But there is no description anywhere of what: ...

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### Optical quantum computers VS Superconducting quantum computers VS Electron-spin quantum computers

One of the main problems of superconducting quantum computers is that it is necessary to maintain a very low temperature (near absolute zero). Such cooling is very expensive and complex. Why, then, ...

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I was reading about quantum compression in this article and have some doubts regarding an example mentioned. Specifically, I have two questions: In example they represented $|a\rangle = \dfrac{1}{\... quantum-state information-theory communication  asked by John Jones 4 votes ### Degree of$N$-bit Majority function is larger or equal to$N/2$I am looking to prove that the$N$-bit Majority function$f$, which is 1 if its input$x \in \{0, 1\}^N$has Hamming weight$> N/2$, and 0 if its input has Hamming weight$\leq N/2$has degree$\...

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### What is the actual precision of the IBM quantum computer?

In working with the IBM quantum computer, one can use for example the composer in order to build simple quantum algorithms. Essentially, one usually feeds a phase in order to affect one of the qubits. ...

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### What is the difference between "Shot-Noise-Limit" and "Standard Quantum Limit"?

It seems that in a lot of papers in the field of quantum metrology, there are two terms Shot-Noise-Limit and Standard Quantum Limit which are frequently referred to. What's the difference between them,...

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## Greatest hits from previous weeks:

### How to calculate an Expected Value of some operator acting on qubits?

I'm trying to implement the Variational Quantum Eigensolver in Qiskit. Suppose, I have an operator $A = \sigma_1^z\sigma_2^z$ acting on some two-qubit state $|\psi\rangle$. After a measurement I get ...

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### What does it mean for two qubits to be entangled?

I have done some sort of online research on qubits and the factors making them infamous i.e allowing qubits to hold 1 and 0 at the same time and another is that qubits can be entangled somehow so that ...

physical-qubit entanglement

### How do you write a simple program for a D-Wave device?

I would like to know how a job for a D-Wave device is written in code and submitted to the device. In the answer it would be best to see a specific example of this for a simple problem. I guess that ...

d-wave programming

### Do there exist problems known to be computationally intractable for quantum computer, but tractable for classical computer?

Or alternatively phrased, is it believed that the complexity class P is a complete subset of BQP? Consider the following diagram à la MIT OpenCourseWare, which seems to explicitly state as much.

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### Does Moore's law apply to quantum computing?

Plain and simple. Does Moore's law apply to quantum computing, or is it similar but with the numbers adjusted (ex. triples every 2 years). Also, if Moore's law doesn't apply, why do qubits change it?

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### How do I show that a two-qubit state is an entangled state?

The Bell state $|\Phi^{+}\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|00\rangle + |11\rangle )$ is an entangled state. But why is that the case? How do I mathematically prove that?

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### Is qsphere an actual term representing 5 qubits?

I'm a total beginner, I've been brought here by the featured stackoverflow blog post so I started studying. Watching this youtube video (A Beginner’s Guide To Quantum Computing (3:58), I saw this ...

terminology

## Can you answer these questions?

### When writing data into qRAM, can I do it in a superposition state?

In general, quantum algorithms are said to be hybrid algorithms. Especially when storing data in qRAM, it seems to be done through classical calculations. Is it possible to write this part directly to ...

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### How do you visualize multi-qubit interactions?

I am trying to understand single qubit operations from Bloch sphere, but I was told that the limitation of Bloch sphere is that it can only visualize or simulate 1 qubit. What are some instances do I ...

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 asked by Jazz Ang 1 vote
The famous Cramer-Rao bound is $$\Delta\theta\ge\frac{1}{\sqrt {F[\rho,H]}}$$ But what happens if the denominator vanishes, i.e., $F[\rho,H]=0$ ($F[\rho,H]$ here stands for the quantum fisher ...