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. Please include the version of Qiskit you use when using this tag.
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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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Big Endian vs. Little Endian in Qiskit
I've noticed that Q# favors Little Endian. Meaning that most operations are designed for this type of encoding.
Is is it the same with Qiskit?
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Can I find the axis of rotation for any single-qubit gate?
Suppose I have an arbitrary qiskit $U_3$ gate: $U_3(\theta,\phi,\lambda)$. Is there a way I can find which axis the gate is rotating around? In other words, given any real numbers $\theta,\phi,\lambda$...
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How can I implement an n-bit Toffoli gate?
I want to create a Toffoli gate controlled by n qubits, and implement it in QISKit. Can this be done? If so, how?
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How is the Grover-Algorithm applied to a database?
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I want to use the Grover-Algorithm to search an unsorted database for an element $x$. Now the question arises, how do I initialize index and value of the database with the qubits?
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What is the relationship between Choi and Chi matrix 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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What is a "barrier" in Qiskit circuits?
I just started studying IBM Qiskit, and cannot find details about the barrier method on the QuantumCircuit class. It is shown in the circuit drawing, but I never heard about it after reading quantum ...
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How do I build a gate from a matrix on Qiskit?
I'm creating a gate for a project and need to test if it has the same results as the original circuit in a simulator, how do I build this gate on Qiskit? It's a 3 qubit gate, 8x8 matrix:
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\frac{1}{...
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Transpilation into custom gate set in qiskit
In qiskit, I can transpile a given circuit into a some predefined gate set as follows (just an example)
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How to create an arbitrary state in QISKit for a local_qasm_simulator?
I would like to play with a quantum circuit local_qasm_simulator in QISKit, but I do not want to implement a separate quantum circuit that would prepare an initial ...
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Given a state $|\phi\rangle=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|0\rangle+e^{i\theta}|1\rangle)$, how do I know the angle $\theta$?
Question1. If there is a state $|\phi\rangle=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|0\rangle+e^{i\theta}|1\rangle)$, and I want to know the angle $\theta$. What kind of measurement should I do? Could somebody give me ...
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In Grover's Algorithm, does the exact solution need to be given to the oracle?
From my understanding, the oracle function in Grover's algorithm is used as a way to check for the desired outcome.
I have looked at this example which implements the Exactly-1 3-SAT problem and the ...
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quantum random number generator implementation in quantum lab
How can I generate and print a 32 bit sequence of 0s and 1s in Qiskit or IBM Q experience quantum lab using quantum random number generator implementation?
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How to measure in another basis
I am new to qiskit and I have to simulate a quantum circuit. I read this documentation https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-states/single-qubit-gates.html where it is left as an exercise to the reader to ...
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How to quickly calculate the custom U3 gate parameters $\theta, \phi$ and $\lambda$ for any unitary?
In IBM Qiskit and Quantum Experience, the custom U3 gate is defined as
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U(\theta, \phi, \lambda) =
\begin{pmatrix}
\cos\left(\frac{\theta}{2}\right) & -e^{...
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Phase-Shift Gate in Qiskit
How to implement the phase shift gate in qiskit or ibmq?
Phase Shift Gate : $$\begin{pmatrix}e^{ia} && 0 \\ 0 && e^{ia}\end{pmatrix} = e^{ia}I$$
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What are theta, phi and lambda in cu1(theta, ctl, tgt) and cu3(theta, phi, lam, ctl, tgt)? What are the rotation matrices being used?
I was reading the documentation for qiskit.QuantumCircuit and came across the functions cu1(theta, ctl, tgt) and ...
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How can I find a Clifford+T approximation of an arbitrary one qubit gate in Qiskit?
I know the Solovay-Kitaev algorithm can achieve this. Is there an implementation of this or any other algorithm for the same task in Qiskit? Or perhaps some other library that interfaces well with ...
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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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How to implement if statement based on measurement results in qiskit?
I tried to implement three qubit bit flip code in qiskit and need to get the result of measurements and then apply recovery quantum operations conditioned on the measurement results. The following is ...
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Building Unitaries in TSP Quantum Phase Estimation Qiskit?
In the paper [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.10928.pdf] 2 published by IBM, they use Quantum Phase Estimation to solve the TSP problem. I don't understand the reason why they can decompose the diagonal ...
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Error while trying to execute the Quantum Circuits in IBMQ
I have been trying to execute the quantum circuit in the backend of the IBM 16 qubit Melbourne machine. I end up getting
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Can I remove gates from a QuantumCircuit?
Suppose I want to implement run several circuits one after another, but they are constructed in a similar fashion. I could reinstantiate a QuantumCircuit for each ...
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SWAP gate(s) in the $R(\lambda^{-1})$ step of the HHL circuit for $4\times 4$ systems
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On the 5th page of the paper Quantum circuit design for solving linear systems of equations (Cao et al, 2012) there's this circuit:
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A brief schematic of what's actually ...
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How efficient is Qiskit's unitary decomposition?
In Qiskit's extension package we have the UnitaryGate module that you can initialize using a unitary matrix and then add it to your circuit. How efficiently is this ...
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How to get subspace of quantum circuit?
How can I get a subspace of a quantum circuit? More precisely, I'm dealing with quantum circuit with data qubits ('q') and ancilla qubits ('anc'), such as $(q_0,q_1,...,q_n,anc_0,..anc_m)$.
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Does the circuit with qubit-wise CZ gates compute the inner product of two states? If not, is there another circuit that does?
I've been searching for a quantum algorithm to compute the the inner product between two $n$-qubit quantum states, namely $\langle\phi|\psi\rangle$, which is in general a complex number.
One can get $|...
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How can I obtain transformation matrix of a quantum circuit in the Qiskit?
I need to draw a quantum circuit in Clifford+T library and obtain automatically its transformation matrix. Is there any feature on Qiskit in this case?
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How to selectively apply noise in Qiskit simulations?
In Qiskit it is possible to specify noise models to apply to simulations. This allows noise to be defined for certain operations, like measurement or each type of gate.
Is it also possible to change ...
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Is there a physical definition of barrier operation in qiskit?
As far as I know, we can use barrier method in qiskit to split circuits into two sets to prevent the optimization. However, is there any physical meaning of the barrier? Like a delay operation or ...
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What is the difference between Qiskit execute and the IBMQJobManager?
I was researching how to submit multiple pulse schedules/circuits in the same job and came across 2 methods:
Executing Experiments with qiskit.execute
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How can noise on a device be simulated using measured noise parameters?
The real devices used as backends for Qiskit have calibration data that quantifies errors ($T_1$ and $T_2$, gate fidelities, etc). This can be accessed by, for example
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How to implement the swap test with the help of qiskit?
It's creating a real confusion for me especially the parameterized circuit which I have to create. Can anybody please solve this for me? I want to create this circuit.
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Vary parameter between shots
Is it possible to tell Qiskit to execute a parameterized gate where the parameter varies between shots?
Let's say, for whatever reason, I'd like to speed up the dephasing of a qubit during a run. I ...
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How to decompose this two-qubit unitary matrix to the standard gate set?
I have read some of the other decomposition questions here however still don't understand how to do it manually. The matrix I wish to decompose is the following for 2 qubits:
$M=\frac{1}{\sqrt2}\...
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How the real IBM quantum computers apply arbitrary Rz(θ) gate rotation? [closed]
I want to ask the following questions:
(1) The basis gate set of IBM quantum computers is { Id, Rz(θ),√X, X, CNOT, reset}. Somebody said that IBM didn’t really apply Rz(θ) gate on the machine. The ...
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How to use external .csv data file in quantum support vector machine qiskit python code?
I am new to python programming and Qiskit. I would like to ask can we use sklearn for adding external .csv data file before Qiskit libraries, or without sklearn, we can do or is there any other Qiskit ...
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How to plot custom gate labels in Qiskit?
How can I create a custom gate in qiskit that is plotted using latex formatting (or another type of formatting)? For example the following code generates a circuit diagram
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How to make a half adder for x number of qubits with min. cost?
How to make a half adder for N inputs and getting the output on another x+1 output. Where x ...
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API error when trying to access IBM Quantum Computer using IBMQ API Token
I'm trying to write a code so that if the token exists then it loads the account or else it asks the user for the API token. Below is the code for reference:
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Qiskit: count the type of gates on the qubit with the largest number of gates in a multi-qubit circuit
I would like to know the number and type of all the gates on the wire/qubit with the largest operations in a quantum circuit with multiple qubits. Is there any inbuilt functionality, or what is the ...
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What is the difference between Qiskit Terra, Aer, Ignis and Aqua?
I am going through the Qiskit tutorials and they have an article on each of the above 4. however, As a beginner, I am not very clear. Could anyone share some insights on these?
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Qiskit: Get approximate execution time
The IBMQ web interface shows both queue position and an approximate execution time for every pending job (see image below). Is there a way to retrieve this information via Qiskit? I know that ...
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Conjugate transpose of a U-gate
I want to be able to create the circuit depicted below, but running the code below results in an empty circuit when viewing the job afterwards.
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Decomposition of an arbitrary gate using given matrix in Qiskit
If I have an arbitrary non-unitary matrix of say
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U = \begin{pmatrix}
1.5 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1.6 \\
0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
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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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Mitigating the noise in a quantum circuit
I'm using Qiskit and I have a Quantum Circuit (say, circuit) that gives reasonable results when using the simulator, namely
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Visualize full UCC circuit in qiskit
I am experimenting with the UCC module in qiskit nature. From pyscf, I got 1-body and 2-body integrals (I need to use custom integrals) and thus created a mapped ...
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Qiskit CNOT-gate matrix mixup?
In the qiskit textbook chapter 1.3.1 "The CNOT-Gate" it says that the matrix representation on the right is the own corresponding to the circuit shown above, with q_0 being the control and ...
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Creating a Qiskit Circuit sending $|00\rangle$ to $|1,-\rangle$ and $|11\rangle$ to $|0,-\rangle$
I am trying to create a circuit in Qiskit that performs the following transformations:
starting in state |00⟩ generates a √(2)/2 * (-|10⟩+|11⟩) state
starting in state |11⟩ generates a √(2)/2 * (|00⟩-|...
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