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Phase accumulation for multiple Rabi driving pulses

When a single-qubit gate is operated by Rabi driving, the resulting operator is equivalent to $$ \hat{O} = R_z(\omega t) R_x(\Omega t)\tag{1}$$ where $\omega$ is the frequency of the driving field, $\...
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non-variational formulation of imaginary time evolution

I was wondering if there is a codebase online or if somebody here has implemented successfully the non-variational formulation of the imaginary-time evolution algorithm in qiskit. I know ...
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In qubit phase tracking, does the phase $\delta$ have to be synchronized to the Larmor precession?

In many textbooks (e.g. LaPierre 2021 or Byrd 2022), when dealing with the physical implementation of quantum gates in spin qubits, Larmor precession is usually introduced first as a way to rotate the ...
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How to create a electron in a superpositon?

I am trying to understand how are qubits created and implemented in real life. I was unable to find much information about how electrons are kept or sent into a superposition of our wish which is of ...
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What is the clear definition of coherent versus incoherent errors?

The noise types in quantum computing are pivotal topics frequently discussed in academic papers. Could you provide a clear definition of coherent versus incoherent errors? Additionally, I'm keen to ...
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Superconducting charge qubit and Cooper pairs

In the superconducting charge qubit implementation of the qubit what I've understood is that we read a 1 if a Cooper pair has gone through the Josephson Junction into the "island" and we ...
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Rabi amplitude in theory vs practice

I am a bit confused with the definition of Rabi amplitude and how it relates to experimental values. If I understand correctly, we can show a rabi driving (waveform) with the following formula: $\...
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Qudits in NISQ Devices: Benefits Beyond Dimensional Advantages?

It's clear from foundational research that qudits can provide an enhanced control of the Hilbert space over qubits, and I've encountered references that highlight improved robustness and noise ...
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How do qubits interact to form logic gates?

How do qubits interact to form, say, CNOT gates? There are very few comprehensive explanations of how quantum computing works. They all use obscure metaphors that don’t make sense (like Schrödinger’s ...
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What is complete structures of the photonic quantum computers?

I am interested in studying quantum computers based on photonic integrated circuits. I am looking for a site, article, book, or material that will introduce the process of its implementation step by ...
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What is the closest experimental platform to $H=\sum_{ij} J^X_{ij}X_iX_j+J^Y_{ij}Y_iY_j+J^Z_{ij}Z_iZ_j$?

Consider the Hamiltonian $$H=\sum_{ij} J^X_{ij}X_iX_j+J^Y_{ij}Y_iY_j+J^Z_{ij}Z_iZ_j$$ where $X,Y,Z$ are Pauli spin operators and $J_{ij}^\alpha$ are arbitrary couplings that can be positive and ...
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Number of qubits in quantum circuits in ibm qiskit

How to find number of Qubits ? ...
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What's the difference between Superconductor, Photonics, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance implementation of the physical QC?

I'm a bit new to Quantum Computing and I wonder why organisations are using different physical architecture. I realise that any physical implementation can be valid as long as it uses the fundamentals ...
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What level of physics and math do I need to get into Quantum Computing (hardware)?

I already understand the abstractions of Quantum Computing (software), which includes qubits, interference, qubit entanglement, and circuits. However, despite being able to write Q# code that makes up ...
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Physical interpretation of superposition state

I was confused with interpreting superposition state in the anharmonic energy diagram. In the anharmonic energy diagram, an energy pulse can shift the state of the qubit from $|0\rangle$ to $|1\rangle$...
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Is there any recent review on the state of the art of NMR quantum computing?

Is there any recent review on the state of the art NMR quantum computing? there are some reviews but they are not complete. for example does not give the data for the gate times and so on.
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quantum mechanical outcome of heating an ensemble of particles

Following the post in our neighboring chemistry community, I would like to understand the expected outcome when an ensemble of particles at their ground state is heated to gain additional energy ...
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Why are we only interested in the linear combination $|\phi\rangle = a |0\rangle + b |1\rangle$?

They say superposition enables qubit to live in linear superposition of two states. I.e. \begin{equation} |\phi\rangle = a|0\rangle + b |1\rangle \end{equation} Why are we interested only in linear ...
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What would be the simplest physical implementation of a CNOT operation between spin and energy DoF's?

I'm working on a project where I'm considering a two-level system ("atom" for convenience) which possesses two linearly independent degrees of freedom, one of them a spin degree of freedom ...
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Quantum algorithms and binomial distributions and probabilities

Qubits in a quantum computer are mostly spins of quantum particles.But since spin can take up to 2 values does this mean quantum algorithms are applied mathematics which make use of binomial ...
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When is a quantum algorithm considered to have a significantly superior performance over another quantum algorithm?

Suppose we have two heuristic quantum algorithms $A$ and $B$ that attempt to solve a certain class of optimization problems. Let's suppose that the benchmarking metric is Time To Solution (TTS), which ...
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What is the purpose of Doppler cooling in neutral atom devices?

As a theorist without much experimental physics background, I am reading some reviews to understand how these systems work. I've learned that one needs to use Doppler cooling before trapping the atoms ...
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Does post selection of a qubit introduce non-linearity?

Problem I have a multi-qubit state $\lvert \psi \rangle$ and an ancilla qubit $\lvert 0 \rangle$ that I use to extend my state, getting the new state $\lvert 0\rangle \otimes \lvert \psi \rangle$. ...
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Quantum and DNA computing

Recently I came across the article Associative Quantum Memory. In the article, the authors discussed early physical implementation of quantum computers with NMR. In particular, NMR implementation used ...
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Randomness and precision of Quantum Number Random Generators

I am reading about the problem of generating random quatum numbers, and I am interested in the state of the art in terms of the true randomness these generators achieve. As far as I know, following ...
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How does superconductivity quantize the (non-)harmonic oscillator of the LC-circuit?

When reading literature on transmon, or in general charge, superconducting qubits the explanation usually starts from why two metallic islands with a bridge can be seen as LC-circuit, how that is a ...
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Probability of error in BB84 if Eve is using Breidbart's basis

I'm taking a course on quantum cryptography and I have a homework to calculate probability of error in BB84. The task says to assume that Eve uses the Breidbart basis with eigenvectors $$|φ_0⟩ = \cos(...
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Physical interpretation of a 2-photon-qubit system occupying the antisymmetric Bell state

This question regards the reconciliation of QIT with what I have learned separately in lectures about quantum physics. My understanding is that indistinguishable bosons are always described by ...
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How to measure an unknown state produced by a source of qubits?

What kind of experiment can allow me to measure an unknown state produced by a source of qubits? For example: the state of photon polarization. But it can be another one. I have no information about ...
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Is quantum energy teleportation a specific version of quantum teleportation?

I just read another sensationally titled article in Quanta magazine, Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing where they discuss the work of Masahiro Hotta on transferring energy ...
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Hamiltonian in CNOT gate implementation

I am studying the physical implementation of the CNOT gate from "Introduction to Quantum Computing" (Ray LaPierre) and I am confused about the order of operators in the tensor product of the ...
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Does Google's error correction paper invalidate Gil Kalai's arguments?

In his paper "The Argument against Quantum Computers, the Quantum Laws of Nature, and Google’s Supremacy Claims", Gil Kalai argues that quantum advantage will never be reached. For NISQ ...
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Detuning in Rydberg blockade Hamiltonian

I am reading the mechanism of the Rydberg blockade as a quantum gate. For a two-atom system with Rabi frequency $\Omega$, detuning $\Delta$ and blockade potential $V$, the system Hamiltonian is given ...
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Logical vs Physical Qubits for Quantum Chemistry DFT

How many physical qubits are required per logical qubit in a typical Density Functional Theory implementation for a large number of atoms?
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What are currently the best reported qubit error rates per gate operation?

Based on some investigation, I have found the best qubit coherence timescales, in superconducting architectures, to be the order of milliseconds. https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB....
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Do quantum loops exist?

I was checking the book from Nielsen and Cheng and they mention in chapter 1, page 23, that quantum circuits don't have loops: "There are a few features allowed in classical circuits that are not ...
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The physical realisation of a quantum oracle [duplicate]

I am having doubts about the physicality of the quantum oracle used in the quantum search algorithms. The standard definition of the search problem (e.g Nielsen and Chuang) states that we are ...
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Changing the phase of one qubit is equivalent to changing the phase of another qubit. What is the physical interpretation of this?

Given two qubits, let's say it's in state $|01\rangle = |0\rangle \otimes |1\rangle$. These two qubits are not entangled. Applying a $\theta$ angle phase change (sorry if this is the wrong terminology)...
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Physical qubit estimates when using surface codes

I've been trying to recreate physical qubit requirements to attack elliptic curve cryptography for the good people over at cryptography stack exchange. I don't want to get too deep into the arcana of ...
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Where does 1/sqrt(2) come from in the state of i

I’m trying to learn about calculating coordinates for $\theta$ and $\varphi$ in a Bloch-sphere. I came accross this book about it, including example questions. At question 2.12b, they ask to give the ...
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what is the elementary Lab devices (and their specifications) for building superconducting qubits?

suppose I want to build a superconducting qubit, how can I find the Lab Devices and specifications which are nessecarry to build it?
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What is a gate-level circuit used in the 2022 Jafferis et al. experiment on Sycamore?

A recently published Nature paper of Jafferis et al. describes an experiment with a handful of qubits performed on Google's Sycamore processor to explore the SYK model in the context of AdS/CFT and ...
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Checking if Explanation of Quantum Computer is Correct

My explanation of a quantum computer and why it is potentially faster is below: A quantum computer uses physical phenomenon to perform operations called gates. These gates act upon things called ...
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Does it make sense to compare different quantum computer technologies?

Let's assume I have some quantum program I tested and tuned on a simulator and that now I want to see how it actually performs on real quantum hardware. I test it on IBM Superconducting devices and ...
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What is the reason of $ZZ$- and $XX$- interaction in two-qubit system?

In two-qubit system there are $ZZ$- and $XX$-interaction between the qubits, in some papers it is described how to remove such parasitic interactions, but I didn't find the reason of why does it ...
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Why does the $Z$ gate transform $|1\rangle$ to $-|1\rangle$ but fixes $|0\rangle$?

How come that only |1> transforms to -|1>, while |0> stays the same? I see them as being "two sides of the same coin". I understand that only the global phase is affected, but what ...
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Why are quantum systems fabricated to be anharmonic?

I was following the Qiskit textbook: https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-quantum-hardware/calibrating-qubits-pulse.html In this, there is a statement as indicated below: With superconducting qubits, ...
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Link between binary program output and observable eigenvalue

A quantum cloud server like from IBM typically returns a string of 0's and 1's such as 0010. An observable such as $Z_1 \otimes Z_2 ... \otimes Z_{n}$ has two eigenvalues +1 or -1. How do I relate ...
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How are measurements done exactly on IBM cloud computers?

A quantum cloud server like from IBM typically returns a string of 0's and 1's such as 0010. How is this measurement done exactly? I realize that the IBM cloud computers are transmon devices based on ...
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Could a “disco ball” be a good geometry for trapped ion quantum computers?

It seems to me that a good geometry for an ion trap quantum computer would be to constrain the ions to lie on the surface of a sphere. Their mutual repulsion would space them out evenly. If the ions ...
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