Questions tagged [qiskit]
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Install qiskit in django project
I was wondering if it's possible to use qiskit inside a django project. I found some ways to install jupyter notebooks, but I am not sure what is happening with qiskit.
Ideally I would like to import ...
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How to obtain the density matrix using tomography in the real device?
I am trying to run the QFT algorithm for n=5 (n number of qubits). The number of experiments that it generates is bigger than the one allowed by the IBM devices (i.e. 75). Therefore, I have tried to ...
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Problem with the API-token from IBM TypeError
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Hi, could anyone help me please?I have a problem with the API-token
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Generic 2-qubit gate in qiskit
I need to implement a 2-qubit gate of the following form in qiskit (I've barely started using it, so I'm happy to try a different package if that's worth it)
$$ A(\vec c)=\prod_{j=1}^3[I\otimes I\cos(...
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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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How to construct a multi-qubit controlled rotation with variable angle?
I'm trying to construct a circuit that performs the quantum transformation :
Where $f$ is some function. Is there a way to do it without going through every possible value of $i$ ?
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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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IBMQfactory._initialize_providers Error
After a successful first run without problems, I found that I cannot connect any longer.
Code:
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Modifying measurements in a Qiskit circuit
Assume my function Qiskit receives a certain circuit as an input. How do I check if this circuit already has some measurements appended to it? If so, how can I ...
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Angles of rotation in HHL example
I am trying to implement the 4-qubit example outlined in https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-applications/hhl_tutorial.html#2.-The-HHL-algorithm (showed in Section 3 of the article). Does anyone know what ...
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How to plot custom labels for quantum registers in Qiskit?
How can I plot custom labels for specific qubits on the left and right side similar to the picture shown here (A, B, Sum ...):
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How to ignore spins is Qiskit chemistry package?
Is it possible to use built-in qiskit.chemistry tools, such as VQE, UCCSD, etc., without ...
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Quantum circuit for Szegedy quantum walk on a cyclic graph
I'm trying to implement an efficient circuit for the Szegedy quantum walk on a cyclic graph with number of nodes N = 8. I found the circuit in this thesis (page 39), the two images below show graph ...
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Creating qubit operators for optimization problem
There is DOcplex module that generates WeightedPauliOperator for the DOcplex Model by calling docplex.get_operator(model). I ...
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Creating Ising Hamiltonian with Qiskit
How to create Ising Hamiltonian and implement it with qiskit (the output should be in the form of WeightedPauliOperator) for the following problem:
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H = A \big(...
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How to get running time for each circuit executed on IBM's quantum processors in one round?
I want to execute multiple circuits in one round on IBM's backends, especially the 16-qubit one, to save time. For instance, ...
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How should I understand that protocol has worked correctly by histogram?
I'm trying to simulate quantum secret sharing protocol HBB99 I've read the paper "Quantum secret sharing" by Hillery, Bužek and Berthiaume (Phys. Rev. A, 1999; preprint on arXiv) and I have a question ...
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In Qiskit quantum teleportation protocol, why they use CZ and CX gate at the end?
I understand the simple quantum teleportation protocol and why it uses X and Z gate at the end of the circuit.
I was researching about the Qiskit and I came across this video
https://www.youtube....
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Evaluating expectation values of operators in Qiskit
I'm wondering how in Qiskit one can calculate the expectation value of an operator given as a WeightedPauli (or, at least, of a single ...
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Real-device error mitigation with qiskit
I'm trying to do error mitigation in IBM-Q quantum computers with qiskit. I followed the tutorial here. My thought was that in order to make sure that I'm correcting the qubits that I'm actually using ...
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How to reduce unnecessary waiting time when using IBM's backend?
I'm working with a program, which needs iterations of quantum computation like this
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ibmq_qasm_simulator from IBMQ provider and qasm_simulator from Aer provider gives different results
I'm running an experiment first on qasm_simulator backend from Aer provider and the most frequent result is the correct one with ...
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Creating a custom VariationalForm in Qiskit
I would like to use the built-in Qiskit VQE() function, with my own variational form. What is the proper way to define it? I was expecting ...
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VQE restart from a previous computation
I'm running VQE algorithm on ibmq-qasm-simulator.
I'm trying to implement a restart mechanism in order to be able to start a new computation from the result of a ...
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How to format a qiskit circuit to only have a high level abstraction?
Consider the following situation, we import a 3-bit Toffoli gate as follows:
from qiskit.aqua.circuits.gates.multi_control_toffoli_gate import _cccx
I further ...
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Specifying qubits to achieve measurement error mitigation on Qiskit
I'm learning how to do error mitigation on Qiskit as my experiment result differs from the simulated result. I read the tutorial here, but I have some questions about it. If I have understood it ...
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How to write decent code for oracle in Qiskit without custom circuit or long truth table?
I am now practising using Qiskit. The example of Grover's algorithm in tutorials suggests using logical expression, truth table or circuit to construct the oracle. In most textbooks on quantum ...
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Implementing controlled $\frac{\pi}{2}$ y and z rotation in Qiskit
I'm trying to implement a controlled $\frac{\pi}{2}$ rotation along y axis and z axis (two individual gates) in Qiskit but I'm stuck. My thought was calculating the square root of the y and z pauli ...
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QAOA with Qiskit: Is the initial state affected by the noise model?
I'm doing a simulation of the QAOA algorithm with noise via the QAOA class of Qiskit 0.19.
Here's (part of) my code:
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How do I change the number of max_shots of Aer qasm_simulator in Qiskit running on my computer?
I want to do a circuit with more than 1 million shots. How do I change the number of max_shots of Aer qasm_simulator in Qiskit? When I run it, it said ...
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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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Error with support vector machine code [closed]
I'm trying to run the algorithm below using a Parkinson's dataset but every time I run it, it either never goes in or produces that error. There are no errors in any of the other lines of code but ...
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Evaluated Standard deviation during QAOA/VQE optimization is always zero. Qiskit 0.19
I'm using qiskit 0.19.1, and I'm doing some simulation of QAOA, using the aqua class QAOA. I use a callback function in my program to see energy and std during optimization, but the evaluated standard ...
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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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Layout Method in qiskit
Using transpile with optimization_level = 3, which is the layout method used by default?
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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'qiskit.circuit.library'
I am importing from qiskit.circuit.library import MCMTVChain on python IDLE editor but it showing error ...
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How to make circuit for n-control Z gate( i.e $C^3Z$ )?
I am trying to make circuit for $C^3Z$ gate I have seen a circuit for $C^2Z$ or $CCZ$ gate made by using $CCX$ gate so is there any way to make circuit for $C^3Z$ in this similar manner( i.e by using $...
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SPSA max_trials
I'm using SPSA as an optimizer in VQE algorithm.
The code runs on ibmq-qasm-simulator.
I've set SPSA max_trials parameter to 500, but, when I run the code, it makes ...
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How can I make qiskit output raw data?
I am new to quantum computing, and I want to make a program to output 0 or 1 randomly by Hadamard gate, and use that information to make a GUI interface. For example, a coin flip program that output "...
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Implementing sum on Boolean with Grover algorithm
We are trying to implement a "sum over 4 booleans = k" in the spirit of Grover search. First, we have 4 qubits, one for each boolean q00, q01, q02, q03,; then 4 ...
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Deutsch's algorithm in Qiskit
I am trying to understand and implement the Deutsch algorithm. I follow the logic from Nielsen book and I started to implement it in Qiskit.
For implementing the oracle, I use a CNOT gate and now I ...
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Choi and Chi matrices (in Qiskit)
I'm struggling with the framework for quantum process tomography on Qiskit.
The final step of such a framework is running fit method of ...
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How to create a qubit in arbitrary state in qiskit
A QuantumCircuit() command creates a qubit with zero state always.
I've seen some instructions about using Arbitrary Initialization but it is not accessible and ...
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Tomography library in Qiskit?
I am wondering what is the equivalent to the import bellow in the current version of Qiskit?
import qiskit.tools.qcvv.tomography as tomography
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Creating Bell States with CNOT conditioned to the control qubit being set to zero
I was using qiskit to generate all of the Bell States. I created the following circuits for each state:
$|\Phi^+\rangle :$
$|\Phi^-\rangle :$
$|\Psi^+\rangle :$
$|\Psi^-\rangle :$
The $|\Psi^\pm\...
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How do I get intermediate values of VQE algorithm using callback?
I'm new to using Qiskit Aqua, and I'm trying to get the intermediate values in the VQE algorithm to study the convergence. The documentation mentions an internal callback function, but I can't figure ...
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Implementing QPE in qiskit
I'm trying to implement the HHL algorithm in qiskit, but right now I'm stuck on the quantum phase estimation routine, the main problem being not knowing how to implement the unitary operator $U$.
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Angle in qiskit
I have been working on Qiksit. Is it possible to display just the angle of each gate in a circuit as an output?
For example, if the below code is my circuit is it possible to just print the angle of ...
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Result of Grover on Qiskit simulator
I have executed this circuit and I don't understand why the result is $|11\rangle$ ?
[q[0], q[1]] : solution register
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Qiskit flipped representation of qubits in CNOT gate?
The conventional CNOT gate is shown on the right, and the Qiskit version is on the left. Since Qiskit defines it has a flipped representation kindly explain what is happening to the 11 position?
