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About Quantum tomography
Imagine I have a classical data(normalised to fit qubit) in the form of$\alpha_1,\alpha_2,\beta_1,\beta_2$ I assumed data to be in qubit
$$\left| \psi \right> = (\alpha_1 + i\alpha_2 ) \left|0\...
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Number of measurements in quantum state tomography
I'm very curious to know more about bounds of number of measurements (or number of independent copies of state) required to reconstruct full density matrix $\rho$ such that it is $\epsilon$-close (...
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How to implement SU(2) rotation with qiskit?
Before I start, I would like to say sorry for this possibly stupid question of mine.
I just recently got into the topic of quantum computing and try me there.
I'm currently trying to display a SU(2) ...
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Techniques to parallelize controlled-unitaries controlled by the same qubit but acting on different target qubits
I need to find a way to parallelize a set of controlled-unitaries that are all controlled by the same qubit and are targetting $n$ different qubits. The main constraint that I have is that I can only ...
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Optimising state tomography for fully entangled states
As tomography methods are usually inefficient, it's interesting to find good approximation.
I was wondering the following:
Assume one wants to estimate a state $\rho$ on $n$-qubits.
Given a basis of ...
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What makes dynamical decoupling a good method since the fidelity after using it can only reach 0.85 or so?
From this paper, I see that the fidelity of single qubit gate after using dynamical decoupling only reach around 0.85 while I normally saw experiment papers state their fidelity can reach around 0.99 ...
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Jordan-Wigner map for ionic molecule H_2^+
I want to derive the Hamiltonian of the ion molecule H_2^+ by making use of Jordan-Wigner map.
Thus, I used qiskit nature. I wrote down same command of given in qiskit nature. The only difference is ...
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How to construct a quantum circuit that given $|\psi_0\rangle,|\psi_1\rangle$ outputs $\frac{1}{c}(|\psi_0\rangle+|\psi_1\rangle)$?
Suppose I have two arbitrary quantum states $\lvert \psi_1 \rangle $ and $\lvert \psi_2 \rangle$. Further suppose that we know $U_1$ such that $\lvert \psi_1 \rangle = U_1 \lvert 0 \rangle$, but we ...
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What are the differences between discrete-time quantum walks between dimensions?
When working with quantum walks in other dimensions (1D – 2D – 3D...) do your results tend to be different from what is proposed in theory with the probability density? The results obtained in the ...
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Why use superpositions to write states even when they are not entangled?
I am reading book "Dancing with Qubits. How quantum computing works". I had learned the rule of entangled state: when quantum state is separable(i.e. it can be written as such a tensor ...
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Quantum algorithm to determine the existence of a solution
Consider two vectors $u$, $t$ living in some space (let's say $ℝ^{n}$), and the following (simple) problem:
Find a vector $v$ such that $∃a,b\inℝ$, $au+bv=t$
Imagine I want to use Grover to find a ...
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Can W gate be written only using H,T?
I want to write the decompose the gate $W=(X+Y)/\sqrt{2}$ using only $H$ and $T$ (and all the derived Clifford gates basically). I know $H=(X+Z)/\sqrt{2}$ is it possible to obtain exactly $W$ from ...
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Some of the qubits are not evaluated at Qiskit
When I implement a 3-qubit circuit in Qiskit, circuit is executed smoothly at the simulator but counts I read back as results does not contain all of the qubits that are defined and included in the ...
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PhD topics in quantum computing [closed]
I am looking for PhD topics in quantum computing related to computer Engineering background (I don't have a background in physics).
I tried searching for Machine learning, neural networks and Quantum ...
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Barren Plateau as a consequence of 2-design?
Initializing a parameterized quantum circuit with a unitary sampled from a uniform distribution (so sampling from the Haar distribution) or in a weaker form: a unitary which is a unitary 2-design, ...
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Expected Minimum Clique Coverage?
I'm curious if there is literature on this and, if there is, where to find it. Here I'm using ``clique" to mean a set of observables which all commute with each other. I also include the identity ...
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T-depth in Qiskit
How to find T-depth in Qiskit? Is there any inbuilt function or some method to find T-depth? I know that the .depth() function exists which returns circuit depth (i....
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Qiskit: How to implement a classical function?
I'm quite lost, I have to implement the following function with qiskit
$$
f(x,y,z) = (\lnot x \land y \land z) \lor (x \land \lnot y \land z)
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but how can we do that ? I don't understand how to do ...
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qiskit qaoa.compute_minimum_eigenvalue
I am having some trouble running the compute_minimum_eigenvalue method from qiskit's QAOA: the documentation states that one ...
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Are there hardware platforms that natively implement parametric two qubit gates?
For example, is it possible to implement RXX gate with an arbitrary angle on an ion computer in a single native operation? The RXX gate with an arbitrary angle can be decomposed into two RXX gates ...
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Is there a closure property for the entire Clifford hierarchy?
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Is the entire Clifford hierarchy (as opposed to any one level), a group?
Background.
The Clifford hierarchy (on $n$ qubits), is a collection of nested subsets $\mathcal C^{(1)} \subset \mathcal ...
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Reshaping the 4x4 CNOT gate into 2x2x2x2 in a tensor network
I'm learning how to perform tensor network contraction for simulating a quantum circuit by looking at the documentation for the JET simulator: link. Specifically, I'm trying to do all the calculations ...
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Performance metrics in QSVM
I have implemented QSVM on breast cancer dataset using link: "https://qiskit.org/documentation/stable/0.24/tutorials/machine_learning/01_qsvm_classification.html" but unable to compute other ...
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How to calculate eigenvalues by phase estimation?
I have been learning Quantum PCA recently but I came across a problem. How can I get the eigenvalues of a matrix by phase estimation? And what on what kind of matrix can we implement this algorithm?(...
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Expectation value of Pauli string for VQE
One approach to get the expectation value $\langle\psi|P\psi\rangle$ of a pauli string $P\in \{I, X, Y, X\}^{\otimes n}$ is the following.
Let $(a_i, |\lambda_i\rangle)$ be eigenvalue-eigenvector ...
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What role does Landauer's principle play in quantum reverisbility?
In section 3.2.5 of Nielsen and Chuang (starting page 153) they talk about Landauer’s principle, where they discuss the lower bound on the thermodynamic cost of erasing information.
In irreversible ...
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Predator–prey theory
We have a project where we are supposed to simulate the predator–prey theory in qiskit. Can anyone help or suggest of any ways to start from somewhere because we are kinda lost.
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Why should we purify a mixed state?
I'm new to quantum computing so I know this question may sound stupid. But I still want to know why purification is necessary sometimes. Please help me with it:)
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Conditional measurement using classical bit in qiskit
I am trying to implement Figure 6 in Implementing a distance-based classifier with a quantum interference circuit
by Schuld et. al
The specific part that I'm struggling with is the controlled (on |0&...
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Are the pure quantum states that make up a mixed state orthogonal?
I came a cross a problem when leaning Quantum PCA. I know that a mixed state is an ensemble of several quantum states. But I wonder whether these states that make up for the mixed state are orthogonal....
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contraction related Bit flip channel
Studying the bit flip channel using the Nielsen & Chuang's.
And ran into the picture with the caption stating y-z plane is uniformly contracted by a factor of 1-2p. I don't quite understand how ...
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Qiskit: Transpile circuit with custom equivalences
I would like to automatically get a phase gate of pi/2 converted to a S gate.
I have:
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Converting data into a SHA256 hash using Qiskit quantum computer
I was wondering how can we convert data into a hash using Qiskit quantum computer? e.g, this code below will generate a SHA256 hash based on random data.
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Is there a way to connect a IBM quantum lab code to an Unreal Engine project?
I would like to know whether someone tried this before, I'm interested in be able to connect this tools. I know that Unreal Engine has a plugin to program with python, that all I know. I'll really ...
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Decomposing S gate in two T gate with qiskit
Let's suppose I define a basis gate set and the following circuit.
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Is a "Bell measurement" equivalent to a projective measurement in a different basis?
Let \begin{align} H = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{bmatrix} 1 & 1 \\ 1 & -1\end{bmatrix}\in M_2(\mathbb C), \quad \mathrm{CNOT} = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 &...
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Usage of slack variables by Dimod (D-Wave)
I have a general question of the application of slack variables. For example, if I want to solve the following inequality:
$x_{0}+x_{1}+x_{2}+x_{2} \leq 2$
Then I can reformulate the inequality above ...
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Why do we have only 3 Pauli gates X, Y and Z
This question is out of curiosity thus might not be of much importance.
We have Pauli X, Y, Z gate which rotate the phase by π along X, Y and Z basis. Just wondering why not do we have these 3 gates ...
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How is the ket of a quantum state calculated in this code?
For the following code
qc = QuantumCircuit(2)
qc.h(1)
qc.cx(1,0)
ket = Statevector(qc)
ket.draw()
the output will be the following:
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How is this Variational Quantum Singular Value Decomposition paper efficient in any way?
Link to paper here.
This algorithm seems neat but the unitary decomposition of the matrix M generally takes an exponential number of Pauli basis elements in the number of qubits $N$, therefore an ...
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What is the difference between $|+\rangle$ and $|-\rangle$?
What is the difference between $|+\rangle$ and $|-\rangle$.
I was reading about quantum states and found that $|+\rangle$ and $|-\rangle$ represent state in superposition of other states.
I was just ...
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What is the original paper introducing the Variational Quantum Eigensolver?
My question is very simple. I am looking for original paper where Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) has been introduced. After some Googling I was able to find many applications of VQE and its ...
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How to calculate parameters of U3 gate from a certain quantum state?
I'm trying to do Quantum PCA but I came across a problem. I now have a quantum state, say $\frac{|00\rangle+|01\rangle+|11\rangle}{\sqrt{3}}$ and I want to know how to prepare it from two $|0\rangle$ ...
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Why can the CNOT representation $e^{i\frac{\pi}{4}\left(I-Z\right)\otimes\left(I-X\right)}$ hardly be found in books?
The CNOT gate is usually written as
$|0\rangle\langle0|\otimes I + 1\rangle\langle1|\otimes X$
(with $X,Y,Z$ being the Pauli Basis and $I$ the Identity).
I have yet to stumble across the ...
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Why do we need physical qubit if qubit can be simulated?
I do not see any advantage in constructing very costly and imperfect physical qubit while this qubit can be simulated with using conventional computer memory (noise-free).
So what is the purpose when ...
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Why does the condition $\langle \varphi _k\left( t \right) |\dot{\varphi}_l\left( t \right) \rangle =0$ called parallel transport condition?
I'm reading this paper about nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation and met the condition eq.(2) states that $\langle \varphi _k\left( t \right) |\dot{\varphi}_l\left( t \right) \rangle =0$ is the ...
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How to use QubitConverter and ParityMapper to do chemistry simulation?
After viewing the question: Hamiltonian & QubitMappingType cannot be imported from qiskit.chemistry.core,
I also want to implement the same Jupyter notebook and browsed the response below.
However,...
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Oracle for amplitude addition
Assume one is given two oracle circuits providing access to matrices $A_{ij}$ and $B_{ij}$ as follows (see eq. (6.2) here):
\begin{equation}
O_A |0\rangle|i\rangle|j\rangle=\left(A_{ij}|0\rangle+\sqrt{...
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Computing characteristic polynomial of unitary operation
I am trying to replicate a calculation from the linked paper but I am unsure if I understand their math. A locally invariant function defined as the characteristic polynomial is as follows:
$$F_U(t) = ...
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How to set the meas_level and optimization_level in Quantum Azure IonQ provider?
I am performing a benchmark process using the Azure Quantum IonQ provider. I use Qiskit in the Azure platform, and I was trying to see how to control the transpiling and compiling process. It seems ...