Questions tagged [qiskit]
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Am I doing anything wrong when trying to calculate the expectation value in Qiskit on the real hardware?
I am trying to use the method of calculating the expectation values of Pauli operators in Qiskit which I found here.
However, the results obtained via IBMQ sampling differ significantly from the exact ...
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How to implement Cx mod N unitary
The following links provides circuts for $a\in\{2,7,8,11,13\}$ and $N=15$: https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-algorithms/shor.html#3.-Qiskit-Implementation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6614v3.
I am ...
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Why after transpiling a Qiskit circuit we obtain a different result?
I am trying to obtain the correct circuit transpiled for the ibmq_london device, as I want to know what the real gates applied in the quantum computer are. I am implementing the QFT circuit for 5 ...
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Feedback on Deutsch-Josza alg. homework prob. in Learning Quantum computation using Qiskit [closed]
In Learning Quantum Computation using Qiskit chapter 3.4 I encountered the Deutsch-Josza Algorithm.
At the end of the chapter I was presented with a homework problem where the code:
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How the simulator work?
Recently I focused on how to simulate in classical computer, and I found Qiskit offers qasmsimulator and statevector simulator. ...
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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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Question About How Qiskit Reset Gate Affects Other Entangled Qubits
I am trying to understand how the reset gate in Qiskit affects qubits its entangled with. Consider the following circuit with qubits $q_0$ and $q_1$:
Where circuit240 takes $|0\rangle$ to $a|0\rangle ...
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I'm trying to import random_state from qiskit_textbook.tools but it gives error message [closed]
I am getting this error during import random_state from qiskit_textbook.tools:
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Expectation value of an operator error: Composition is not defined over operators of different dimensions,
I am trying to calculate the expectation value of a customized operator on two similar but differently constructed states $\phi = \phi_2 =\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left( |001⟩ + |011⟩\right)$ which consist ...
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Does anyone know of Qiskit source code for a Bernstein Vazirani grover's algorithm for N bits? If so please share
I'm just getting started in the space of quantum computing, I've built a 5 qubit program for Bernstein-Vazirani, but am trying to figure out how to go about building an N bit version of Bernstein-...
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What is the difference between Qiskit execute and the IBMQJobManager?
I was researching how to submit multiple pulse schedules/circuits in the same job and came across 2 methods:
Executing Experiments with qiskit.execute
and ...
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Why are IBM QE backend results different from the qasm simulator for a simple quantum circuit?
I have looked at other questions that ask pretty much the same thing such as this and from what I gathered the significant difference in simulation and actual results is due to decoherence and ...
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How to do error mitigation on the ibmq_16_melbourne?
I'm trying to make a calibration matrix using CompleteMeasFitter as in here on IBMQ Melbourne, but I need to use all 15 qubits, which mean it has to run 32768 calibration circuit, far exceeding the 75 ...
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Why is import qiskit failing to import in Anaconda Jupyter Notebook
I recently downloaded Anaconda(Python 3.7) on Windows 10 and I am having difficulty importing Qiskit in jupyter notebook. I tried the following line:
import qiskit
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Why is the number of solutions given in Qiskit textbook(Quantum Counting Algorithm) as N-M instead of M?
I'm following the Qiskit textbook for Quantum Counting. We have assumed $M$ as the number of states containing solutions throughout the algorithm but at last, $N-M$ has been taken as the solution. ...
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I want to create a depolarizing channel on IBM qiskit
I want to replicate the depolarizing noise channel
for a 4 qubit circuit system, where p is the probability for an error.
I tried doing this:
But I get the error ...
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Qiskit textbook install error
I'm trying to install the qiskit_textbook repository (https://github.com/qiskit-community/qiskit-textbook) and I keep getting this error
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Representation of rotation operators $e^{-i\theta(I-Z_1\otimes Z_2 \otimes Z_3)}$ about arbitrary axis for $3$ qubits
I was wondering in how to interpret and represent the operator $e^{-i\theta(I-Z_1\otimes Z_2 \otimes Z_3)}$ for a 3 qubit system in a circuit using qiskit.
I was thinking I could just perform an ...
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How do I optimize HHL algorithm in Qiskit?
How do I optimize HHL algorithm in Qiskit?
I tried to follow this tutorial on HHL in Qiskit. My project requires solving a very specific type of linear equations $Ax=b$ like the one below.
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How to append an Instruction to a QuantumCircuit with variable length of QuantumRegisters as qargs?
I think it is a bug but I'm not really sure. Basically, what I'm trying to do is the following: I have an Oracle Instruction which I want to append to my QuantumCircuit, looks as follows:
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Is it possible to express u1(λ) through the gates rx, ry, rz while maintaining the phase? In Qiskit for example
Is it possible to express gate u1(λ) through the gates rx, ry, rz while maintaining the phase?
Both in principle and in practice (in Qiskit for example)?
The single gate rz(λ) is not suitable, because ...
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Why do I get positive amplitudes when I create a qiskit StateVectorCircuit from only negative amplitudes?
I am using amplitude encoding to encode my features in a quantum circuit. With this I expect to encode e.g. 32 features in five qubits.
For the encoding I use qiskit's ...
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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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Installing Qiskit Error: Building wheel for ecos error
How can I fix this error? I am installing the newest version of Qiskit.
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XOR gate for n control qubits in qiskit
I am currently creating a blackbox for a grover search algorithm to solve the graph colouring problem with qiskit. One of my search criteria is that one node can only have one color. Therefore, with ...
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Example of Simple phase Change Using 2 Qubits [closed]
I need to manipulate phases in 2 qubits. I will eventually create 34 distinct phase sets to map to an alphabet I built.
I see https://github.com/oreilly-qc/oreilly-qc.github.io/blob/master/samples/...
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The maximum depth possible on quantum computers
I hope you don't mind me having two questions.
Firstly, I was running a Qiskit HHL simulation on a 12x12 matrix and a 12x1 vector, leading to a 16x16 matrix after expansion, and it resulted in a ...
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Unable to use qiskit_textbook module
When I tried to use the Qiskit textbook module, it threw the following error:
Command was:
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Trotterizing a Pauli sum in Qiskit
In Qiskit, how do I construct a circuit corresponding to the Trotter expansion of a Pauli sum $A+B+C+\ldots$ given as a WightedPauliSum object?
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Jordan-Wigner $\leftrightarrow$ Bravyi-Kitaev transformation in Qiskit
A couple of questions regarding the conversion between Jordan-Wigner (JW) and Bravyi-Kitaev (BK) states in Qiskit.
The JW $\rightarrow$ BK conversion matrix I refer to below is the one from equation (...
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How to run an approximate simulation, and why
I'm looking at the Qiskit getting started documentation, https://qiskit.org/documentation/getting_started.html. They create a quantum circuit and run an approximate simulation on it 1000 times:
Why ...
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How can I initialize a state with chosen amplitudes in Qiskit?
I was trying to initialize to an arbitrary state of n qubits with the initialize() from Qiskit but it doesn't generate a state with the same amplitudes passed as an ...
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How to not optimize the quantum gates in a qiskit circuit when running it in the real device?
I have been trying to run two circuits in the ibmq_london device, the one resulting of applying one X gate on qubit $0$ and the one that applies two X gates. I know that applying two X gates is the ...
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Transpiler Error: Number of qubits greater than maximum in coupling map [closed]
Transpiler Error: Number of qubits (2) in circuit11 is greater than maximum (1) in the couplings map
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Problem with code in 'Learning quantum computation using qiskit
I've started learning quantum computing using 'Learn quantum computation using qiskit',
and I've stumbled upon what I think is a bug in the code in chapter 1.3: Representing Qubit States
when I ...
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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
English/Englisch:
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 ...
