## Top new questions this week:

### Quantum teleportation and the reality of quantum states

This question is perhaps philosophical but it's been confusing me. Suppose Alice is teleporting some qubit state $|\phi\rangle$ to Bob via the quantum teleportation protocol. After Alice applies the ...

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 answered by Mateus Araújo 1 vote

### Could random quantum circuits be efficiently approximately simulated?

Google's landmark result last year was to compute a task with a quantum computer that a classical computer could not compute, and they chose random circuit sampling. Part of their justification was ...

Let $T: M_n \to M_n$ be a quantum channel. If I understand Definition 13.5.1 of the book "Quantum information theory" of Wilde, the coherent information $Q(T)=\max_{\phi_{AA'}} I(A \rangle B)... quantum-state quantum-operation information-theory  asked by Aaron 4 votes  answered by rnva 2 votes ### Can I partially collapse the wavefunction in Qiskit? I'm trying to do something similar to this question, where I want to partially measure the system before getting the output. In particular, say I have 4 qubits. I want to measure two of them, and then ... qiskit measurement  asked by Germ 4 votes ### What is a maximal number factored by Shor's algorithm so far? With reference to similar question here I would like to know what is the maximal number which has been factored with Shor's algorithm so far on actual quantum hardware. The reason I am asking similar ... shors-algorithm  asked by Martin Vesely 4 votes  answered by KAJ226 2 votes ### How to perform this d-dimension unitary operation on IBM Q?$U_{a,b}=\sum^{d-1}_{x=0}\omega^{bx}|x+a\rangle\langle x|$,$\omega=e^{\frac{2\pi i}{d}}$,$a,b\in\{0,1,2,...,d-1\}$Can someone please give me the pic of the quantum circuit? quantum-gate ibm-q-experience quantum-operation  asked by Williamyang 3 votes  answered by tsgeorgios 2 votes ### Why do the constant operations in a quantum computer need second qbits? From what I'm reading, building the constant-1 and constant-0 operations in a quantum computer involves building something like this, where there's two qbits being used. Why do we need two? The ... quantum-operation universal-gates  asked by MysteriousWaffle 3 votes ## Greatest hits from previous weeks: ### How to quickly calculate the custom U3 gate parameters$\theta, \phi$and$\lambda$for any unitary? In IBM Qiskit and Quantum Experience, the custom U3 gate is defined as$$U(\theta, \phi, \lambda) = \begin{pmatrix} \cos\left(\frac{\theta}{2}\right) & -e^{... programming qiskit resource-request ibm-q-experience  asked by Sanchayan Dutta 7 votes  answered by tigerjack89 5 votes ### Is there proof that the D-wave (one) is a quantum computer and is effective? I'm admittedly a novice in this field, but I have read that, while the D-wave (one) is an interesting device, there is some skepticism regarding it being 1) useful and 2) actually a 'quantum computer'.... performance annealing d-wave classical-computing experiment  asked by Discrete lizard 41 votes  answered by Andrew O 27 votes ### How to understand the Haar measure from a quantum information perspective? I found it a little difficult to understand it using Wikipedia and some mathematical documents. How to understand the Haar measure from a quantum information theory perspective? Are there any ... quantum-information resource-request  asked by raycosine 12 votes  answered by David Bar Moshe 15 votes ### How to interpret a quantum circuit as a matrix? If a circuit takes more than one qubit as its input and has quantum gates which take different numbers of qubits as their input, how would we interpret this circuit as a matrix? Here is a toy example:... quantum-gate matrix-representation  asked by Archil Zhvania 16 votes  answered by heather 18 votes ### Why doesn't the Gottesman-Knill theorem render quantum computing almost useless? The Gottesman-Knill theore states (from Nielsen and Chuang) Suppose a quantum computation is performed which involves only the following elements: state preparations in the computational basis, ... simulation nonclassicality gottesman-knill  asked by user2723984 7 votes  answered by DaftWullie 11 votes ### How to input 2 qubits in 2 Hadamard gates? Let's say we have a circuit with$2$Hadamard gates: Let's take the$|00\rangle$state as input. The vector representation of$|00\rangle$state is$[1 \ 0 \ 0 \ 0]\$, but this is the representation ...

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### Can the Bloch sphere be generalized to two qubits?

The Bloch sphere is a nice visualization of single qubit states. Mathematically, it can be generalized to any number of qubits by means of a high-dimensional hypersphere. But such things are not easy ...

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## Can you answer these questions?

### Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem for arbitrary cyclic p-Groups

I had asked a question similar to this one here regarding how to handle the HSP for groups whose cyclic decomposition contains factors whose order is not a power of two. I also had some prior ...

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### What is known about quantum algorithms for graph isomorphism?

Shor's algorithm (for factoring integers) and Grover's algorithm (for searches) are the two most well-known quantum algorithms. I was wondering if there was a similar result in QC that dealt with the ...