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I recently started developing circuits with Qiskit. I made a 5 qubit circuit in which the fourth qubit at the end of execution must always have value 1: My circuit When I do the simulation with qasm everything is ok. qasm simulation When I start the circuit on ibmq_essex I get results in which the value of fourth qubit is 0. ibmq-essex execution I would like to eliminate from the results all the states that have the fourth qubit at 0 and normalize the circuit to eliminate the errors. How can I do? I have already tried the following set of instructions with Ignis but as you can see from the graph I have not achieved a satisfactory result

from qiskit.ignis.mitigation.measurement import (complete_meas_cal, CompleteMeasFitter)

cal_circuits, state_labels = complete_meas_cal(qr = circuit.qregs[0], circlabel = 'measerrormitigationcal')
len(cal_circuits)
cal_job = execute(cal_circuits, backend = qcomp,shots = 1024, optimization_level = 3)
job_monitor(cal_job)
cal_results = cal_job.result()
plot_histogram(cal_results.get_counts(cal_circuits[5]))
meas_fitter = CompleteMeasFitter(cal_results, state_labels)
meas_filter = meas_fitter.filter
mitigated_results = meas_filter.apply(result)
device_counts = result.get_counts(circuit)
mitigated_counts = mitigated_results.get_counts(circuit)
plot_histogram([device_counts, mitigated_counts], legend=['noisy', 'mitigated'],figsize=(20,15))

After Ignis mitigation error

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The difference between the simulator and quantum hardware is something that can't be avoided, there must be a difference, because of noise. The one thing that I noticed from the histograms is that the state with maximum probability for simulator was '11000' and for quantum hardware, the state with maximum probability was '10000'. I think this difference is caused by the small shots number. I have run the same circuit on ibmq_essex with 8192 shots and here is what I obtained:

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So shots number can help to improve the results. Measurement error mitigation will help a little bit to improve this result even farther, but maybe the final result will be still unsatisfactory. Also, I want to mention that CNOT gates are noisier then single-qubit gates and in the circuit, we have 4 CNOTs applied on the q[4] qubit, so I guess this has its effect. If q[4] is always '1', then we can just replace CNOTs with X gates applied to the corresponding qubits: this will reduce errors as well. Moreover if q[4] is not linked with some q[n] qubit the quantum compiler will introduce SWAP gates to be able to apply CNOT between q[4] and q[n]. This means that we will have even more CNOTs in the circuit then we have introduced (for more about SWAP and connectivity I recommend this video). Here is the connectivity of ibmq_essex taken from this site:

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If our q[4] corresponds to 4th qubit in the picture (not sure about this) then I imagine that the quantum compiler will introduce a lot of SWAP gates and, thus, the error will increase just because of not optimally chosen qubit.

Here is the final circuit after optimization_level=3 (Note how many CNOTs are there):

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From here, if I am not mistaken, we can deduce that q[4] is the 3rd qubit from ibmq_essex.

Here is the code that I have used:

from qiskit import *
from qiskit.visualization import *
%config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'svg' 
provider = IBMQ.load_account()
qpu_backend = provider.get_backend('ibmq_essex')

quantum_register = QuantumRegister(4, 'q')
ancillary_qubit = QuantumRegister(1, 'a')
classical_register = ClassicalRegister(5, 'c')
circuit = QuantumCircuit(quantum_register, ancillary_qubit, classical_register)

circuit.h(quantum_register)
circuit.u1(-0.0707, quantum_register[0])
circuit.u1(-0.134, quantum_register[1])
circuit.u1(-0.236, quantum_register[2])
circuit.u1(-0.314, quantum_register[3])

circuit.x(ancillary_qubit[0])
circuit.cx(ancillary_qubit[0], quantum_register[0])
circuit.cx(ancillary_qubit[0], quantum_register[1])
circuit.cx(ancillary_qubit[0], quantum_register[2])
circuit.cx(ancillary_qubit[0], quantum_register[3])

circuit.u1(0.385, quantum_register[0])
circuit.u1(0.605, quantum_register[1])
circuit.u1(1.02, quantum_register[2])
circuit.u1(1.884, quantum_register[3])
circuit.h(quantum_register)

circuit.measure(quantum_register[0], classical_register[0])
circuit.measure(quantum_register[1], classical_register[1])
circuit.measure(quantum_register[2], classical_register[2])
circuit.measure(quantum_register[3], classical_register[3])
circuit.measure(ancillary_qubit[0], classical_register[4])

qpu_result = execute(circuit, backend=qpu_backend, shots=8192, optimization_level=3).result().get_counts()

plot_histogram(qpu_result, legend=[qpu_backend],figsize=(10,5))
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    $\begingroup$ Thanks for the detailed reply! You have been very helpful and I understand everything you wrote to me. I don't really know how to thank you and you have clarified many doubts I had. $\endgroup$
    – Martina
    Apr 13, 2020 at 13:11
  • $\begingroup$ You're welcome @Martina :). Happy to help. $\endgroup$ Apr 13, 2020 at 15:35

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