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Error when attempting to visualize controlled hadamard gate state matrix with qiskit
I'm trying to get used to the qiskit module and quantum circuits in general, before tackling a QML project. So I'm going through the tutorial on the documentation page regarding gates. I've gotten as ...
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Cannot Repeat HHL Result
There is an HHL example in IBM Qiskit
https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-applications/hhl_tutorial.html
If I run on that website (click "Try") in Section 4 and set ...
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Can I use Quantum lab during IBM Quantum certification exam? [closed]
Hello I am about to take the IBM Quantum Qiskit dev exam. I don't know if I can use the quantum lab (Qiskit) during the exam. Does anyone know?
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How has your experience using Qiskit Metal so far? [closed]
I am interested in starting to use Qiskit Metal. I am wondering what the community thinks so far about this package.
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What does it mean to have a negative cost (aka loss) function?
In the Variational Quantum Linear Solver (VQLS) paper they define four cost functions (2 global and 2 local) and state in Appendix B that "all four cost functions are non-negative." However, ...
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Implementing 3-Qubit Grover Algorithm in Qiskit
The Qiskit tutorial on Grover's Algorithm shows an example of finding two marked solutions out of 8 items, produced by 3 qubits. Using the general diffuser code it provides, however, I realize that ...
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How to transform fermionic operators in qiskit
I encountered some problems when using the qiskit pakage to define the 2-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM), which is a 4-index tensor, $\langle a_i^\dagger a_j^\dagger a_k a_l\rangle$. I need to ...
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How do I work with Gaussian in Qiskit?
I am trying to run this Qiskit Nature tutorial (Vibrational Structure) and it uses the GaussianForceDriver. Every time I run the Gaussian job from Qiskit I get this message:
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Source code for Hamiltonian measurement in qiskit [duplicate]
In variational quantum eigensolver, it is common to transform the Hamiltonian to a qubit form by Jordan-Wigner transformation, for example. After that, the algorithm needs to measure the qubit ...
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Can Qiskit decompose circuits into non-IBMQ basis gate sets?
Let circ be a QuantumCircuit object. Running circ.decompose() returns a circuit that ...
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How to measure a qubit Hamiltonian in qiskit
I am using qiskit to get some measurement results of observables similar to the Hamiltonian. Can someone provide the way how qiskit measures the Hamiltonian (Jordan-Wigner transformed) when using VQE? ...
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Compute measurement values of observables by Qiskit
Is there a way to get certain measurement results by variational quantum eigensolver in qiskit? More specifically, I want to get measurement results for certain operators, like $\langle a^\dagger_ia_j\...
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PyTorch and Qiskit example from the Qiskit textbook seems broken
After executing the proceeding code blocks, when I try to copy the same code from Qiskit textbook on my jupyter notebook, I get the error as
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Symbolic computation with quantum circuits
What are my options for computing symbolic results for quantum circuits?
I have identified some possibilities:
SymPy (Python library, see also this), unfortunately, the software forces you to encode ...
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Unable to use iSWAP in Qiskit TwoLocal entangling_block
I would like to use a general entangler in the entanglement_block of the TwoLocal function. The function seems to work with 'cz', 'cx', 'swap' gates, but it fails for 'iswap' gate. Below is the error ...
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Re-initializing qubits in a circuit without losing superposition
So recently I was building some circuit made of subcircuits. My subcircuits happen to use auxiliary qubits, that are always initialized in the state $|0\rangle$ and are not used after the calculation. ...
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Is there any way to assign a colour for a single gate in Qiskit?
I'm drawing with Qiskit a big circuit with some predefined and custom gates. I want to colour some of them in non-default colours for a better reading of it. Is it possible to do it for predefined ...
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Which qiskit backend is faster in execution of the quantum circuit prepared?
I have a quantum circuit of 40 qubits with mutliple gate operations being applied to many of the qubits. Currently I am using qasm simulator which for shots=1 took 10 hour of time. Is there any other ...
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Getting the current variational parameters in Qiskit
I am right now using variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) to calculate the ground state of some molecules, like H2, by qiskit. The quesiton is that how to get the current parameters of the varaional ...
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Question on qiskit.circuit.library.PiecewiseChebyshev Qiskit circuit library
This question follows the post https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/posts/15070/edit.
I am working on an implementation of HHL algorithm, to do so, I need to map $|\lambda\rangle\mapsto |\arcsin(...
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What is the physical unit of the energy calculated using VQE on Qiskit?
Suppose there is any arbitrary ansatz producing variational energy for any arbitrary Hamiltonian. What is the physical unit corresponding to the energy? Since numerical algorithms only output a ...
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How to calculate quantum circuit with given quantum state?
I have task to calculate this quantum circuit
Where psi is:
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Optimising Angle Code in Qiskit - Using the QAOAVarForm
I’ve got a bit of an elongated plea for aid here!
I’ve got some code that finds the optimum angles for QAOA on the Maximum Independent Set Problem. It does however seem about ~10x slower than related ...
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Iterative Phase Estimation with noise vs standard Quantum Phase Estimation with noise
I am doing Qiskit Lab 4 about Iterative Phase Estimation. I created a circuit implementing IPE for theta = 1/3 (phase of 2pi/3). Here's the circuit:
It seems to do okay if I run it without noise in a ...
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How to solve TSP problem with more than 3 nodes in the tutorial of Max-Cut and Traveling Salesman Problem?
I had to try the example of qiskit’s Traveling Salesman Problem with 3 nodes and executing it at IBM backend called simulator_statevector.Can execute and get the result normally.
But when trying to ...
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Calculating the expected value of a weighted Pauli Operator in Qiskit
Following UT course on Quantum Machine Learning, they have a notebook on QAOA. As part of their lecture, they perform QAOA using Qiskit. Unfortunately, it seems the new versions of Qiskit have changed ...
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How do I get the Unitary matrix of this circuit without using 'unitary_simulator'? [duplicate]
I am using jupyter notebook and qiskit. I have a simple quantum circuit and I want to know how to get the unitary matrix of the circuit without using 'get_unitary' from the Aer unitary_simulator.
i.e.:...
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I don't understand unitary of ${e^{iAt}}$ from HHL algorithm
I tried to implement the following circuit in the image below but with the red circled gates replaced with a unitary controlled ${e^{iAt/2}}$ and controlled ${e^{iAt/4}}$
The image came from this ...
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Why is my unitary matrix using linear algebra not matching the 'get_unitary' simulation?
I am using jupyter notebook and qiskit. I have a simple quantum circuit and I want to know how to get the unitary matrix of the circuit without using 'get_unitary' from the Aer unitary_simulator.
i.e.:...
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How do I get the Unitary matrix of a circuit without using the 'unitary_simulator'?
I am using jupyter notebook and qiskit. I have a simple quantum circuit and I want to know how to get the unitary matrix of the circuit without using 'get_unitary' from the Aer unitary_simulator. i.e.:...
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Qiskit - Circuit drawing esthatics - can i force the measurements in my circuit show at the end?
I'm studying an introduction course to quantum computation at my uni and we got homework to draw a certain circuit using qiskit. I managed to understand how to do what is asked from me, and this is ...
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Issue in running the qiskit tutorial for QSVM
I am trying to run this QSVM tutorial using qiskit from my Python environment using Jupyter Notebook
Firstly it gives me an error that I have to install ...
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how to implement Quantum tomography on an arbitrary state using Qiskit?
Can quantum tomography helps to reconstruct the state? How is this possible with arbitrary quantum state?
For example if I have a $$|\psi\rangle= (0.24506+0.9633i)|0\rangle + (0.0046238+0.10943i)|1\...
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How to get_statevector() with defined gates in Qiskit?
I'm learning Qiskit for my QC lectures and I'm not able to run the following code:
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Error “too many subscripts in einsum”, UnitaryGate()
I'd like to build a multi qubit controlled gate in the following way.
The circuit has $n+1$ qubits, the first qubit is the control qubit, and the operation on the rest $n$ qubits is the tensor product ...
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From logical universal gate set to physical one, Qiskit
Among the several universal gate sets, the Clifford$+T$ set seems the most important one (since it should provide fault-tolerant computing).
However, that set is logical and it differs from physical ...
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Quantum SVM with large feature set
I am trying to practice QSVM from the following tutorial
Introduction into Quantum Support Vector Machines
The author has used 2 feature_dimension with 2 component PCA
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What is the minimal delay between gates on IBM devices?
Suppose I create the very simple circuit
OPENQASM 2.0;
include "qelib1.inc";
qreg q[1];
x q[0];
barrier q[0];
x q[0];
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Need Help in QGAN function to load higher dimentional data
I have a query that I am using qiskit.aqua.algorithms.QGAN library and using the qgan function and I am having difficulty in loading data of dimension 1000 rows x 10 columns. I am following qiskit's ...
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How fast is qiskit to_gate() method, which is used to convert circuit to gate?
I have prepared a quantum circuit, which is using 13 qubits. Now, I am converting this circuit to gate but it is taking around avg. 35s for conversion. It would have have been fine, if I require only ...
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In quantum teleportation, Is it possible for bob to just see the state vector after receiving it from Alice without measuring it?
I was reading about quantum teleportation using Qiskit. Alice wants to teleport some quantum state to Bob. My question is Is it possible for bob just to see the state vector after receiving it from ...
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Incorrect rendering of a circuit by draw method
Executing
from qiskit import *
circuit = qiskit.QuantumCircuit(3, 3)
circuit.draw(output="mpl")
in ipython notebook gives the following image
Which ...
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How the arguments of $U_3$ gate are converted when they're not lying in the expected range?
From the qiskit documentation (here), a general form of a single qubit unitary is defined as
$$
U(\theta, \phi, \lambda) =
\begin{pmatrix}
\cos\left(\frac{\theta}{2}\right) & -e^{i\lambda} \sin\...
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Grover's algorithm for the real problem of finding the index of an array element
Good day. I am interested in an IMPLEMENTED, not theoretical, example of code for solving the problem of finding the INDEX of an element in an uncorrected array using Grover's Algorithm. The task ...
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Make a controlled gate from a QuantumCircuit that uses append in Qiskit
Here is a minimal example for what I want to do:
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How do I export the rightmost state of circuit wires (qbits and cbits) in a qiskit simulation
qiskit has a quantum teleportation tutorial which winds up with this simulation code:
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Finding Eigen Values from Quantum Phase Estimation - Using qiskit
I am trying to use the quantum phase estimation(EigsQPE) of qiskit to find the eigen values of a matrix.
As I am new to quantum computing so I am confused what to measure in the circuit to derive the ...
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Function in Qiskit to get the quantum circuit
Is there any way to view the quantum circuit of pre implemented quantum algorithm in Qiskit?
In the Qiskit textbook, there is an example given for HHL algorithm. Is there any function in Qiskit which ...
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What is Qiskit's Transpiler method for unitary synthesis?
As I could found in here how the transpile works in qiskit, I understood that transpile gets arbitrary Unitary gate $U$ and some set of basis gates as input, and produce some quantum circuit of $U$ ...
