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I am trying to calculate the state of this Quirk circuit by hand:
where U is a custom gate with 2x2 matrix:
From what I've read, I should be able to calculate the resultant amplitudes as:
(U⊗I⊗I).(anti_controlled_H⊗I).(anti_Toffoli)
which is
But the resulting amplitudes in Wolfram Alpha do not match the Quirk output, leading me to believe I've made fundamental mistake. What am I missing?
While quantum circuits are written such that time goes left to right[1], matrix multiplication goes the other direction[2].
That is, a quantum circuit contains the gate $U_1$ followed by $U_2$ is equivalent to $U_2U_1$.
Which means you need to calculate $(\text{Anti-CCX})(\text{Anti-CH} \otimes I)(U \otimes I \otimes I)$
