Questions tagged [ibm]
For questions about IBM's quantum computing processors and devices. For their cloud-computing service use the [ibm-q-experience] tag instead.
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Error while running Qiskit code on real quantum computer
I was trying to run this code on a quantum computer but I was getting an error can anyone suggest how to resolve this error?
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Multiple Providers on IBMQ
I am attempting to run parallel computations on two different backends from within the same Jupyter notebook, though it appears these two jobs are running sequentially. I understand the jobs will be ...
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processing between sequential executions
Regarding real quantum computers of IBM, can one execute a circuit that contains measurements and afterwards get counts and then, based on the results of measurements (from counts), decide if to build ...
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Is it possible to modify pulse schedules in QASM?
Is it possible to modify a pulse schedule of a circuit compiled using QASM? I know this is possible using OpenPulse, but it seems none of the IBM backends support OpenPulse. So is it possible to do ...
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How to create the state $\vert 0 \rangle+i \vert 1 \rangle$ using elementary gates?
I am trying to write $|0\rangle+i|1\rangle$ in terms of elementary gates like H, CNOT, Pauli Y, using the IBM QE circuit composer.
I was thinking some kind of combination of H and Y since $Y|0\rangle=...
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Can I access device specifications of IBMQ paying devices?
I need to perform some tests for my thesis in real quantum computers, however, I only have access to IBM's free quantum devices (the maximum number of qubits I can use is 15, in ...
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How to deal with job submission error in IBM? [closed]
I keep on getting this error no matter how many circuits I run in the backend 'ibmq_athens'. It says 'Max retries exceeded with URL'. Can someone explain why I am getting this error message.
The main ...
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Qiskit's c_if and conditioned operations on a real quantum computer
Can Qiskit's c_if be used on a real quantum computer of IBM? And if it can, can it put a condition only on Qiskit gates like X, H, U1, U2, etc, or is there some way ...
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Topology graphs of IBM's quantum computers
What is the meaning of the topology graphs of IBM's quantum computers? How should it be interpreted?
For example, how should I understand the following graph?
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Kernel stopping when solving water molecule ground state
I'm new to QISKIT Aqua and I'm trying to follow the Ground State tutorial to solve the Water molecule ground state, but when I execute the calculations the kernel stops.
I'm using IBM Q Experience ...
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Is every computer in IBM's fleet based on superconductivity?
I'm currently writing my thesis and I'd like to know which computer is based on a superconductive architecture to run some simulations.
Thanks for help in advance.
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Is Noise model for quantum prototypes accurate in Qiskit
We know that in Qiskit noise models modeling specific quantum machine prototypes exist and can be inserted into the code. However, are these models fixed in nature or they continuously improve ...
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Connectivity in Grover's algorithm on real quantum computers
Everytime I execute Grover's search algorithm on IBM real quantum computers I get a wrong answer (it doesn't find the correct winner state) unless I use only 2 qubits. For any higher number of qubits ...
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Mechanism of measurement in IBM quantum devices
I am trying to find out about the mechanism of measurement in IBM Q devices. To be specific, if I apply two Hadamard gates on the first qubit and identity on the second then is it possible to ...
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How to measure a quantum circuit's execution time on a real IBM device?
I am executing a quantum circuit on an IBM quantum device and I need to start a timer as soon as the job in the queue starts running. I have already used:
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IBMQ backends: How can I know the repetition rate and depth limits of real devices?
When trying to execute complex quantum circuits on IBMQ real devices, one can encounter a typical error (ERROR_RUNNING_JOB) with the message ...
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Is there a quantum processor with physically implemented Toffoli gate?
Recently, I came across the article Realization of efficient quantum gates with a superconducting qubit-qutrit circuit where its authors proposed a physical implementation of three qubits quantum ...
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Is there a good reason to use T-count minimization for circuits executed on current IBM open quantum systems (real hardware)?
As far as I understood from a series of papers, minimizing the T-count in Clifford+T circuits is essential for fault-tolerant ...
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Error while trying to execute the Quantum Circuits in IBMQ
I have been trying to execute the quantum circuit in the backend of the IBM 16 qubit Melbourne machine. I end up getting
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How are the IBM's and Google's Hadamard gates fabricated and operated?
There are thousands of articles, books and web sites describing the Hadamard Gate from a theoretical point of view.
But I haven't been able to find any photo about any real implementeation of a ...
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Unable to run a QRNG code
I am trying to run the above code on Vigo, Santiago and other backends. However, warning message as shown in the image apppears and no result is displayed even after hours of waiting. However, when I ...
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Simulating noise of googles quantum computers
Is there a way to simulate the noise of googles quantum computers using circ? In the same way that any of IBM's computers can be simulated using different backends?
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Is there a straightforward way to calculate the quantum volume for simple systems?
There are a few people who ask how to calculate IBM's "quantum volume", but it's not clear what the actual mathematical definition of this is. In the answers here, people just point to ...
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IBM Melbourne quantum computer performance and errors
What is the reason for high variation in measurement probability results of a simple 3/4 qubit measurement circuit on IBM Melbourne machine in comparison with the same circuit being run on IBM Vigo/...
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Why does job execution time vary significantly across different IBMQ Backends?
I have run a batch of a few thousand random 2-qubit QuantumCircuits on multiple different IBMQ Backends, and the execution times seem to significantly vary across ...
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Would IBM's “compiler” turn my identity circuit into nothing?
If I were to create a circuit with the following gate:
$$\tag{1}R_\phi = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & e^{i \phi} \end{bmatrix},$$
with $\phi$ specified to be equal to 0, then the gate that I ...
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What are the differences between the IBM machines?
I'm quite new to this field, and have started sending jobs to IBM's quantum computers. I have access to around 11 locations. I can see that these have different numbers of qubits within them, and then ...
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Dose Quantum threshold theorem apply to IBM Quantum Experience
According to Quantum threshold theorem, error rate can be arbitrarily low. But when I use IBM Quantum Experience to measure a simple $|+\rangle$, it gives result of $|1\rangle$ with probability of 52....
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Qiskit: Initializing $n$ qubits with binary values ($0$s and $1$s)
Is there a way in Qiskit to initialize $n$ qubits with binary values (0s and 1s)? For example, how can I initialize two qubits in the state $|11\rangle$? Here is a code snippet:
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How do you CNOT between qubits faraway from each other?
I'm just curious. Say I have 3 qubits on a straight line 0-1-2. How do you guys (on the IBMQ or Rigetti team for example, or anyone who actually works on quantum computer) entangle 0-2 if I, say, am ...
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Form and effect of the intrinsic Hamiltonian on the IBM machines
I want to understand the form of the intrinsic Hamiltonian of the IBM machines, such as ibmq_16_melbourne, and how this affects the data I get out when waiting ...
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IBMQ / Qiskit slack links are broken [closed]
It appears the Slack links to IBMQ slack pages are broken (The link is no longer active). This is case for links on both Qiskit and IBMQ support pages.
What is the best way to gain access to the Slack ...
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What extra functionality is available to an IBM Q Network member over a regular IBM Q Experience user
I've been trying to figure out the extra functionality available to IBM Q Network members that are not available to normal ...
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Quantum error correction on IBM devices?
I'm wondering if the gate errors on any of the IBM devices are low enough so that we could use some error correcting codes which do not require too many qubits? (such as 5- or 7-qubit codes). Even ...
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How can I install the 'ibmq_qasm_simulator' backend?
I'm having trouble running the following cell:
The system told me "The 'ibmq_qasm_simulator' backend is not installed in your system." I'm so confused. Is there a way I can install this backend in my ...
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Conversion of python code on Machine learning to realise on quantum processor
I need to realise a Python code program on Qiskit. It works on fuzzy logic. How should I realise the same using quantum processors using Qiskit? Is there any support on realising Python code for Fuzzy ...
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Graphing T1 using Qiskit
I am trying IBM's code for graphing T1 and I keep getting the following error:
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How can I find the most suitable IBMQ provider for my location? [duplicate]
I have been trying to run my code on IBM's quantum computers, so I used the following commands to associate a quantum computer to the component qcomp:
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Trying to get a provider from IBMQ but get 'No provider matches the criteria.'
I have created a circuit and then run the following:
provider = IBMQ.get_provider('ibm-q')
And this is what I get:
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Error while running the circuit on a real device on IBMQ
I have been trying to run a circuit on ibmq_16_melbourne. But the result shows ERROR_RUNNING_JOB. The run status says:
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Error while running Quantum Teleportation Algorithm on real device using qiskit on IBM-Q
I am trying to implement Quantum Teleportation Algorithm on an actual device, I am using IBM-Q Jupyter notebook for the same purpose.
The code is as follows:
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How many Qubits does the qiskit implementation of Shor's Algorithm need to factor N=15?
I know there is a documentation for qiskit.aqua.algorithms.Shor that explains that they used this reference for implementing the actual circuit. It says that the number of qubit needed is 2n+3. So to ...
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How to deal with the relative phase from the evaluation of the not interacting qubit?
Every qubit is a realization of some two-level quantum system with $\left| 0 \right\rangle$ and $\left| 1 \right\rangle$ states. These states have their energies $E_0$ and $E_1$ respectively. By ...
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'IBMQFactory' object has no attribute 'load_accounts'
I am following this qiskit workshop from https://colab.research.google.com/github/mtreinish/qiskit-workshop/blob/master/Workshop.ipynb . After adding my API key I had encountered the error ...
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Grover's algorithm for 3SAT problem gives erroneous results
I'm writing a code in python with qiskit that implements Grover's algorithm to solve the 3-SAT problem, but when I run it it doesn't give the correct annswer. I've checked the circuit with the ...
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Why IBM devices have the same number of qubit and the same architecture, but the error rates are different?
Here are two different IBM quantum online devices,
Both of them have the 5 qubits and the same architectures.
But why do they have different error rate?
What's the different between them?
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How to plot histogram or Bloch sphere for multiple circuits?
I have tried to plot a histogram for the multiple circuits for the code given below. I think I have done it correctly but don't know why it's not working. Please help me out. If possible please solve ...
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Why qiskit superconducting device native gates different from that of trapped ion device?
For IBMQ device based on superconducting technology, when we transpile the circuit, it is decomposed of U1,U2,U3 and CNOT gates, which are its native gates.
However for trapped ion device, its native ...
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Why does Google's quantum processor outperform IBM's?
I understand that both have 53 qubit devices, yet it is Google that has demonstrated quantum supremacy (although IBM refutes this!). I'm not sure if this is true but it seems like IBM cannot replicate ...
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Why do the IBM and Google processors both have 53 qubits?
As I understand from this IBM post both the IBM and Google teams have independently built 53-qubit processors. What is the significance of the number 53? It is purely coincidental, or is there a ...
