Questions tagged [qiskit]
Qiskit is an open source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of pulses, circuits and application modules. If appropriate, also use the [programming] tag.
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Reducing circuit initialization complexity
I'm encoding data into a QuantumCircuit via the Initialize method for QFTs. In doing this and transpiling for IonQ backends, I'm getting rather complex circuits. Is there a way to encode this data ...
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What actually StatePreparation perform in qiskit?
I used this method to initialize classical data in a circuit. I would like to know what's under the hood and the complexity of this procedure, but I can't find anything on the internet which suits my ...
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Computational cost of a circuit in Qiskit
I would like to see, in terms of complexity, the cost of a circuit. For example: I have written two algorithm that does the same thing, but in one of them I initialize data differently, so I would ...
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QiskitError: 'Sum of amplitudes-squared does not equal one.'
I'm coding a 429 element length string to compare to other same length strings, but I keep getting that error. I used ljust to fill the string to a 512 element ...
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What's the paper referenced by qiskit.compiler.transpile? My tranpile solution is wrong from the perspective of fidelity
Here I want to transpile a standard 3 qubit Quantum Fourier Transform circuit into a implementable circuit. The implementable 3 qubit circuit (qubit0, qubit1, qubit2) should have no SWAP gate and ...
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Qiskit - MultiCX gate mcxgate
I am looking for some help to understand what I am doing wrong.
I am new to QC and I am trying to create circuit that would be in below state -
$$\frac{1}{\sqrt{8}}(|000,0\rangle + |001,0\rangle + |...
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Qiskit: how to ensure binded parameters in circuit?
I'm not sure how to properly bind parameters in the circuit. I don't know why I got the following traceback even though I used .bind_parameters() in my earlier code here:
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How to implement Qiskit QAOA code on a real quantum computer?
I'm trying to run the QAOA code from Qiskit (https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-applications/qaoa.html) on a real quantum computer. However, it doesn't work.
Here starts my code:
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How do you add spin up and spin down fermions to a FermiHubbardModel class in Qiskit?
I've been programming a FermiHubbardModel class with the Qiskit library for a VQE, but the class only shows input options for the U (onsite) and t (hopping) parameters when I construct a LineLattice.
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Qiskit implementation for projecting a hermitian operator and finding its eigenvalues
I'm brand new to quantum computing and have been learning Qiskit for a few weeks now. I am attempting to find the number of 0 eigenvalues of the following operator:
$$ T = PHP$$
where $P$ is a ...
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Jupyter Notebook not rendering latex code
Working through the Qiskit text and came across this bit of coding on the density matrix page:
psi_AB.draw('latex', prefix='|\\psi_{AB}\\rangle = ')
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Qiskit UGate - which angles corresponds to which axes
Qiksit documentation for QuantumCircuit.u(theta, phi, lam, qubit) does not mentions the axis against given angle argument for rotation operation.
It just says ...
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Qiskit - MissingOptionalLibraryError pdflatex library is required to use LaTeX circuit drawing
Trying to run below snippet to generate circuit diagram in a Jupyter notebook on Windows.
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Qiskit - CircuitError Index 1 out of range for size 1
Below Qiskit snippet throws error - CircuitError: 'Index 1 out of range for size 1.. What's wrong?
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CCCRY gate creation
I'm aware there's a few questions about CCCRY gate composition on here but I still have a few questions. I'm following Frank Zickert's book on qiskit and he has defined a CCRY gate as
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Cannot compute gradient operator
I am trying to make a VQC with amplitude encoding(2000~ feature ) so i cant use the usual
ZZfeature map ..instead i am using RawFeatureVector but when i use it to construct the VQC object it shows ...
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Qiskit textbook: Shor's algorithm
The Qiskit textbook shows the following circuit for implementing the phase $(\frac{s}{r})$ estimation stage of Shor's algorithm for factorizing 15:
My understanding is that the register of qubits 8-...
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Qiskit textbook: mod 15 multiplication circuit
The Qiskit textbook shows a circuit for mod 15 multiplication by "a", which for a==2 does the following operations:
U.swap(0,1)
U.swap(1,2)
U.swap(2,3)
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Decoy states use in Qiskit [closed]
While implementing quantum key distribution (QKD) from arXiv:quant-ph/0411004, I have tried to create a decoy states for 3 qubits. However, I was not able to create such decoy states from a string?
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Qiskit Runtime: What are the units of job.result().time_taken? Seconds, milli-seconds, micro-seconds?
job = execute(qwalk_circuit, backend='ibmq_16_melbourne', shots=1000)
results = job.result()
time = job.result().time_taken
What are the units of time? And where ...
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Which protocol does the Qiskit textbook use for Quantum Key Distribution?
I've worked through a couple different protocols for quantum key distribution, but when I look at the Qiskit textbook on this page I am unable to determine which one was used in this lesson. If anyone ...
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Simulating density matrices in quantum simulators
I would like to load random quantum states sampled from a given density matrix based on its classical probabilities ie based on the definition of the given density matrix: $\rho = \sum_i p_i |\psi _i \...
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is there any difference bwtween PCA in qiskit.aqua and PCA in sklearn?
Is there any difference bwtween PCA in qiskit.aqua and PCA in sklearn?
I am working on a data set and did some dimensional reduction on it (using sklearn) to be able to use it in qiskit (near term ...
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Ansatz printing in Qiskit draws a single block
When I try to draw the quantum circuit it is shown in only one block and not the whole circuit. For example using the code:
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What makes oracle algorithms difficult to design and implement?
Recently, I have paid attention to some oracle algorithms, such as Grover. Generally speaking, an oracle is a kind of black box, and Grover's algorithm constructs an oracle through quantum circuits. ...
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How to construct a multi-control quantum gate whose control bit relation is XOR?
So far, the control bits of most control gates have an AND relationship. How to construct a quantum gate whose control bits are XOR with the fewest auxiliary qubits? And then generalize it, is it ...
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How to run PegasosQSVC on IBMQ backend
I'm trying to run a PegasosQSVC on one of the IBMQ Quantum computers though the code just throws errors once we reach the training phase
ie: PegasosQSVC().fit
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How to check if a statevector is made of product of EPR pairs in Qiskit?
I have a statevector of 10 qubits. I want to check if the qubits 0,1 and 2,3 are EPR pairs/Bell pairs. The other qubits (4,5,6,7,8,9) have been measured.
There are four possible 2-qubit states that ...
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TranspilerError: 'The input circuit None is not scheduled'
The following error occurs when executing the code to measure the dephasing time(T2). I would appreciate it if someone could give me a solution to this problem. Among the two functions below, ...
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different results between aer_simulator and aer_simulator_statevector using Qiskit opflow circuit sampler
I am using Qiskit's operator flow framework to calculate expectation values of observables. An example composed operator I want to evaluate typically looks like
I want to run this circuit on hardware,...
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Exponentiating a multi-controlled NOT gate for trotterization
I am trying to exponentiate a multi-controlled NOT gate (MCX) via .exp_i() function for trotterization in Qiskit , but I cannot find such a gate represented in opflow. Is there a convenient way around ...
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How are the experiments ordered in a Qiskit Job?
Using the execute function, assuming the parameter experiments is a list[QuantumCircuit], would each circuit execute on the ...
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Copying a reduced noise model from an IBM device
I need to use the noise model coming from a large IBM device. Nonetheless, I do not need to use the whole Noise Model. I only need the information of let's say qubits [10:15] and [20:25]. That would ...
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Grover Adaptive Search in Qiskit - why ancilla qubit is not used?
I am trying to solve some QUBO tasks with Grover Adaptive Search ("GAS"). For testing purposes, I use a simple task with quadratic part
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A = \begin{pmatrix}0 & -0.5 \\ -0.5 & 0\end{...
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Finding the Exact Probability Distribution for the Outcomes of a Quantum Circuit with Mid-Circuit Measurements
I would like to find the exact probabilities of the possible outcomes of a circuit that includes mid-circuit measurements.
So, as a specific example, consider the following circuit:
I would like to ...
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How to calculate the average fidelity of Pauli error channel
This question is related to this and this.
I am working on Qiskit to design QEC schemes.
My model works with Pauli errors.
I would like to give to my Pauli error channel probabilities $p_x,p_y,p_z$ ...
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Grover Diffuser for states with amplitude value 0?
Is ist possible to do the grover amplification while excluding states with amplitude values of zero?
I was testing this with the classic grover and two diffrent superpositions.
In the first I used the ...
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Using machine learning to determine a good initial mapping for a quantum circuit
I am trying to use a machine learning model to find a good initial mapping for a quantum circuit. I am trying to minimise the number of swap operations i.e. the number of CNOT gates. This is my ...
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Append a controlled Initialize in Qiskit
I would like to create a controlled initialize, I have the following code:
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Qiskit: Is there an efficient way to convert custom operator (matrix) to circuits/gates and vice versa?
I'm using qiskit and would like to convert easily between matrix operators and their corresponding circuits.
I have 2 types of operators:
Permutation matrices (binary entries only) which must be ...
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How to write QSVR_Loss function in Python？
I encountered a problem when I was doing quantum support vector machine experiments: when I was doing quantum kernel alignment, I saw that the example given by qiskit was SVC_Loss:
https://qiskit.org/...
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Rigetti "Timeout on client tcp://127.0.0.1:5555, method name quil_to_native_quil" error
I am trying to run a relatively large quantum circuit on Rigetti's Aspen-11. I have a reservation for later today, but I am getting an error when running the code. I know that if you use:
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Generating random circuits with only CNOT gates using qiskit.circuit.random.random_circuit
I am trying to generate a random quantum circuit with 5 qubits using only CNOT gates. I have modified the source code of the qiskit.circuit.random.random_circuit function to only include CNOT gates (...
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Qiskit: Understanding statevector output
I am looking for some help in understanding the state vector output.
I am studying myself and found some exercise online. Below question is from one of those exercises -
Given two qubits. Both of them ...
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Qiskit: evaluating expectation value of S^2 operator
I am trying to obtain the expectation value of the S^2 operator with respect to VQE wave function in an older version of qiskit (0.26). To that end, I tried:
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How to initialize a $n$ qubit system in this specific state
Basically, I have $2n$ qubits and I want to initialize them in the state $\frac{|\psi\rangle}{\lVert |\psi\rangle \rVert}$ where
$$|\psi \rangle = \sum_{\mathrm{w}\in \{0,1\}^n}|\mathrm{w}\mathrm{w}\...
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Using Qiskit's AerSimulator with an AMD GPU
I have an AMD 6700S that I want to use for Qiskit simulations. The test case below is calculating the QFT.
If I set my code up like this:
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Are there multiple control quantum gates where the control bit is an OR relationship?
In general, the control bits of a multi-control bit quantum gate are in an AND relationship. Is there a quantum gate that makes the control bits an OR relationship?
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Efficiently compute $\langle 0^{\otimes n} | e^{iA} H e^{-iB} |0^{\otimes n} \rangle$ in Qiskit
From this SE question and this Qiskit tutorial, I understand how to compute the expectation such in the form of $\langle \psi|H|\psi\rangle$ or $\langle 0^{\otimes n} |e^{iA} H e^{-iA}|0^{\otimes n} \...
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Code to sample from a quantum circuit in Python or Qiskit
I am trying to implement the following task using Python and Qiskit, but I am not sure of the code that I need to write. The task is as follows.
Input to the code: $n$ qubits.
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