Questions tagged [ibm-q-experience]
Use this tag for questions about IBM's Quantum Service - Circuit Composer & Quantum Lab. DO NOT use this for questions about general Qiskit issues (use [qiskit] for that).
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Applying quantum operation based on random decision
I want to run a circuit on an IBM quantum computer, and this circuit involves gates that are either applied or not based on a (classical) random decision.
As a minimal example, imagine a circuit with ...
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Do individual qubits on IBM quantum processors share the same control unit?
I want to investigate the maximum possible parallelism of quantum operations on a specific IBM device (such as the latest heavy-hex architecture), which requires a basic knowledge of their control ...
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No such file or directory: '/home/jovyan [closed]
I am trying to run a QML code on the IBMQ lab. When importing my own data from my pc with os.path.abspath(rC...) I get: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/jovyan/C:...
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Is there a faster way to do real-time error mitigation in qiskit?
I'm working on the readout error mitigation on a set of results obtained from different quantum circuits. The method I want to apply is to generate the confusion matrix for each quantum circuit (as ...
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Error when running a VQE circuit in IBMQ backends
I want to run a VQE circuit of 4 qubits for a simple Hamiltonian with Qiskit. The circuit run smoothly in simulators. However, when I try to implement it on real IBM' quantum computers it gives me the ...
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Can I use `job_manager` to get memories for 3 parts of the experiment?
Here's part of the code I'm working on:
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What is difference between qasm_simulator and ibmq_qasm_simulator?
There are many ways how to simulate a quantum circuit on IBM Q. However, in partiuclar I am interested in a difference between qasm_simulator and ...
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Quantum state inconsistency between book and IBM quantum composer
$
\newcommand{\ket}[1]{|#1\rangle}
\newcommand{\tens}[1]{%
\mathbin{\mathop{\otimes}\limits_{#1}}
}$I'm trying to self-learn quantum information basics by reading Dancing with Qubits by Robert Sutor....
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Are these two circuits equivalent in performing controlled time-evolution?
I want to perform the controlled time-evolution of some 2 or 3-qubit Hamiltonian. Say we have this example:
$$
H= Z_0\otimes Z_1 + Z_1\otimes Z_2
$$
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How to execute a qiskit circuit from strangeworks hub? [closed]
I would like to execute a circuit in the strangeworks hub on IBM's "ibm_nairobi" system.
Could someone just please send me a general layout of execute and provide a command for stangeworks ...
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Saving statevector on more than one location in a quantum circuit in Qiskit
So, I'm fairly new to Qiskit, and I've been playing around and following the tutorials from the Qiskit textbook. However, there is one thing I fail to understand/implement: for a quantum circuit with ...
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How can I add custom pulse gate to the Qiskit circuit?
I tried to make my pulse and get the pulse into the circuit. But it seems not working properly.
The code and the result are below.
Just change the 'x' to the 'h' (hadamard) with the same piecewise ...
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HHL - the result is correct for one matrix but wrong for another one
I tried to run HHL algorithm in new version of Qiskit (0.29). Firstly I tried to solve a diagonal system 4x4 with matrix [[1,0,0,0],[0,2,0,0],[0,0,3,0],[0,0,0,4]] ...
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Cannot get a provider from IBMQ
My code is:
from qiskit import IBMQ
IBMQ.load_account()
provider = IBMQ.get_provider('ibm-q')
qcomp = provider.get_backend('ibmq_16_melbourne')
but ...
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Simulating OpenQASM 2.0 in Qiskit?
I'm just getting started with OpenQASM, but I'm feeling a bit confused. Is there a way to run the .qasm file I've written in Qiskit (i.e. in Python), or is OpenQasm ...
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What is the basic hardware gate library in the IBM & google?
I need to know what is the basic hardware gate library in hardware IBM and Google? I mean, which one of the gates can be implemented directly in the hardware. I would be very grateful if everyone ...
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Can I extract information from a single shot efficiently?
I'm running a quantum simulation and want to obtain some information from a single shot of an experiment. Here's part of the code I'm working on:
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IBM Quantum: Are ibmq_5_yorktown and ibmqx2 different devices?
When I run provider.backends(), ibmqx2 is listed as an available backend, but is not listed on the IBMQ systems page. This file ...
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Do I need to use classical bits in measurement?
I wonder if I have to add classical bits while performing measurement for a single-qubit quantum circuit. The difference to initialize the circuit is ...
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Measure $\langle \hat{X}\rangle$ and $\langle \hat{Y}\rangle$ from counts
I'm confused about how I can measure $\langle \hat{X}\rangle$ and $\langle \hat{Y}\rangle$ using counts. Here's my code for X:
x-basis:
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This is a question about IBM quantum circuit used to generate the quantum cheque state
I'm learning about quantum cheque. And I read "Experimental realization of quantum cheque using a five-qubit quantum computer" which is written by Bikash K. Behera ,Anindita Banerjee and ...
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How to Implement a noisy identity gate on qiskit?
I can successfully implement the U gate (single qubit) on qiskit, but when I am trying for the identity operation it is not showing any differences with the ideal one .
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Job ids retrieval from ID. Big set of jobs
I'm in the need of running a lot of jobs in the IBM backends. If one likes to run in parallel two jobs (say, with two different parameters), I have seen in the Jobs ...
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What are the runtimes of the different modes of qiskit's mcx?
Qiskit's mcx has four different modes:
'noancilla': Requires 0 ancilla qubits.
'recursion': Requires 1 ancilla qubit if more than 4 controls are used, otherwise 0.
'v-chain': Requires 2 less ancillas ...
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"503: Server Unavailable. Your server appears to be down. Try restarting it from the hub". Help
This message is popping continuously for 2 days in my IBM Quantum lab. I have tried logging out and in again, restarting the browser, changing the internet connection, and changing the device but this ...
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Does dedicated mode provide better results than fairshare in mid-circuit measurement?
I'm using a research account and I have a question about running circuits with (dedicated/priority mode) and without reservation (fair-share mode). From the documentation of dedicated mode,
This (The ...
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Measuring the accuracy of a circuit output?
I have created a circuit and got the output which matches the truth table but, I'm not understanding the measuring the circuit output in terms of the probabilities, power or error.
This is the circuit ...
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Why the last IBMQ job of my VQE have just one circuit?
I am running a VQE over the H2 molecule on ibmq_quito and I set a callback function to save all jobs id's of all iterations. When I check the penultimate job (and the previous ones), I have 2 circuits ...
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Random accuracy using VQC and Iris dataset
Using the same seed (seed_simulator and seed_transpiler) I get different accuracy when running it several times.
In Aqua library (from qiskit.aqua.algorithms import VQC) I solved it adding ...
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How to download from IBM Quantum lab folder of data .txt files all at once?
I have a script in the IBM Quantum lab which runs several jobs and stores the result of each job as a .txt file in a results folder. All I want to do is to download the folder of files. I cannot ...
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how can we save a model using qiskit_machine_learning?
How can we save a trained model using Qiskit Machine Learning library?
I've built a VQC classification model and once finished, I'd like to save the different models to be loaded later.
There is a <...
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Adding collaborator to project during reservation
If I add a collaborator to an IBM Quantum Education project during a system reservation, do they immediately get priority access to the reserved system? Or do I need to add them before the ...
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How to build and visualize circuit from matrix?
In paper Efficient quantum algorithm for solving travelling salesman problem: An IBM quantum experience, the authors use gate $U_j$ and its decomposition
$$
U_j =
\begin{pmatrix}
\mathrm{e}^{ia} &...
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Trying to connect IBM Quantum to External API
Is it possible to connect a quantum computer to openlibary.org API? How do I find the public IP address to my quantum instance?
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How can I simulate the Avg CNOT Error on IBMQ Backends?
I want to know exactly how to estimate the Avg CNOT Error rate for IBMQ Backends?
For instance, I tried to estimate the Avg CNOT Error rate for Belem Backend; I randomly prepared the 00,01,10,11 ...
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FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory. This error occurs while giving a data path to upload datafile(present on desktop) in IBMQ
I am trying to implement https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-machine-learning/machine-learning-qiskit-pytorch.html#3.-Let's-code!- in IBMQ using a dataset present on my desktop.
While uploading a dataset ...
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What is this pulse experiment showing?
The following results in the figure were achieved using Qiskit pulse by doing the following pulse sequence;
{ $\frac{\pi}{2}$, delay $\tau$, $\pi$, delay $\tau$, $\frac{\pi}{2}$}
The figure is the ...
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Recover qubits used in an actual computation
How do I recover from a certain job_id in the IBM backends which qubits where used?
I would be interested to know if for instance, in a batch of say 50 jobs, 25 of ...
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How to find the expectation value of several circuits using Qiskit aqua operator logic?
I am using the method from this SE answer to calculate the expectation value using qiskit aqua operator logic which works well for a single circuit. Here is a simplified code snippet to demonstrate ...
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When will Qiskit Runtime be available to all users?
IBM's Qiskit Runtime was recently made available to a select group of users. Have they announced when it will be available to all users or when they might open it back up to a second round of new ...
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IF statement in OpenQASM2.0 on IBM Quantum Experience -- error
I have written the following toy .qasm file, which has some adaptive measurements:
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How do I identify a VQE job run in real hardware?
I am running a VQEUCCFactory for H2 on a real hardware device.
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Guide for Qiskit's Measurement Error Mitigation?
I'm reading about error correction mainly in the Qiskit Measurement error mitigation chapter contains what it seems and easy way to "clean up" the noise obtained in the IBM (or NISQ) devices....
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How do I send a quantum circuit to IBM for execution?
I have, let's say, the following quantum circuit:
The QASM code of this quantum scheme has the following form:
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Apply readout error mitigation to mid-circuit measurement
I'm trying to construct a quantum circuit with 3 mid-circuit measurements, here's an example:
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QPE Circuit test on Quantum Computer ('ibmq_16_melbourne')
After several atempts, I cannot mitigate the error when running the code on a NISQ, via the qiskit library (more specifically on the 'ibmq_16_melbourne').
I've already mapped the connected qubits and ...
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How can I specify the qubits on quantum computers that I want to use?
Suppose I have the following 2-qubit quantum circuit:
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"us" units on relaxation times $T_j$ in the IBM backends
A pretty lame question but, the backends relaxation times $T_1,T_2$ are given in us units. What are those? (Frequencies are given in GHz... Is it really $\mu s$ but IBM can't display the $\mu$ in the ...
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$T_1/T_2$ thermal relaxation example
The built in noise models in Qiskit have an example of $T_1/2T_2$ relaxation here. I have a couple of doubts; the notebook is not very clear in some of the steps.
Why does one need $T_2\leq 2T_1$? ...
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Qiskit Pulse Notebook
When I downloaded the source code from Qiskit Notebook Accessing Higher Energy States and tried to execute it, the output and graph seem wrong in the step finding the frequency step which leads to the ...
