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Is there a way of eliminating a term of a superposition state? Let's say I have the state
$$\frac{1}{\sqrt 2}|00\rangle + \frac{1}{2}|01\rangle + \frac{1}{2}|10\rangle$$
What operation would I do to eliminate the state $|00\rangle$? And be left with only the terms $|01\rangle + |10\rangle$. I'm looking for a general solution, an idea, rather than one specific to this case.
If you've got
$$|\Psi\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}|00\rangle+\frac{1}{2} \Big( |01\rangle + |10\rangle \Big)$$
and you want to suppress state $|00\rangle$ using two ancillary qubits, you can
q[2] as targetq[3]and you'll obtain
$$|\Psi_1\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\Big( |01\rangle + |10\rangle \Big)$$
Simplyfing:
In general (if the state $|\Psi\rangle$ is not a simple superposition) you can use a negated Toffoli gate (or a series of $n-1$ negated Toffoli gates for an input register of $n$ qubits) to get the state $|00\rangle$ (or the state $|0\rangle^n$ for an input register of $n$ qubits) to an ancillary qubit (or $n-1$ ancillary qubits) and then suppress it to obtain the desired result (this depends on the result you want to obtain).
