Questions tagged [qiskit]
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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?
Example
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Does conditional gate collapse controller's superposition?
I've created a simple circuit in Q-Kit to understand conditional gates and outputted states on each step:
In the beginning there is clear 00 state, which is the input
The first qubit is passed ...
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Submitting jobs to IBM devices without Python
Qiskit can be used to submit jobs to IBM devices using Python (or Swift and JavaScript). But what if I want to use a different language?
For example, suppose I have a specific circuit I want to run. ...
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Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations (HHL09): Step 2 - Preparation of the initial states $|\Psi_0\rangle$ and $|b\rangle$
This is a continuation of Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations (HHL09): Step 2 - What is $|\Psi_0\rangle$?
In the paper: Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations (Harrow, ...
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Composing multiple quantum circuits in single quantum program in QISKit
I was wondering if there is a way to compose a program with multiple quantum circuits without having the register reinitialized at $0$ for each circuit.
Specifically, I would like run a second ...
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How to program a controlled Hadamard-Hadamard gate?
I'm trying to program a controlled gate as the figure below in Qiskit. Should it be sufficient to separate and control individually the Hadamard gates?
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Qubits specification on IBMQ devices
As it is shown here, CNOT gates between different qubits have different error rates. I have the following questions:
1) While defining a circuit on QISkit, does ...
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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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There was an error in the circuit!. Error = 'QISkit Time Out'
I've got the following quantum code using QISKit (based on hello_quantum.py):
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How to delete pending jobs on IBM Quantum Computer to retrieve units?
I am trying to run some code using qiskit, but I get the error message, that I have run out of necessary Experiment Units. I ...
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Visualization of Quantum Circuits when using IBM QISKit
I have followed the installation steps, regarding QISKit working environment. For circuit visualization, I've installed latex as in addition to poppler to convert from PDF to images. Afterwards, I ...
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Why do we need a Classical Register for carrying out Quantum Computations?
I've just started to mess about with QISKit on Python and one thing is confusing me a fair bit.
Given that we are building Quantum Circuits what is the need for a classical register ?
Is it because ...
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Changing indices of qubits in QISKit
I was wondering if something like this is possible in QISKit: let's say we have two registers containing target and ancilla qubits:
$a_0$ -------------------
$a_1$--------------------
$\vdots$
$...
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SWAP gate(s) in the $R(\lambda^{-1})$ step of the HHL circuit for $4\times 4$ systems
Context:
On the 5th page of the paper Quantum circuit design for solving linear systems of equations (Cao et al, 2012) there's this circuit:
Schematic:
A brief schematic of what's actually ...
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One-qubit gates results in QISKit
I found it odd that the result of the action of identity gate (namely a $2\times2$ identity matrix) on a pure state $|0\rangle$ (namely the vector corresponding to the $2\times1$ matrix $\begin{...
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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:
$$
\frac{1}{...
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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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Defining qubit operator from scratch
I'm a beginner with Qiskit and the Python language at all.
Here is my question:
One of the VQE function arguments is qubit operator (qubitOp).
I saw some examples ...
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Construct Controlled-$G^{\dagger}$ from known Controlled-$G$
Let there be a known a scheme (quantum circuit) of Controlled-G, where unitary gate G has G$^†$ such that G≠G$^†$ and GG$^†$=I (for example S and S$^†$, T and T$^†$, V and V$^†$, but not Pauli and H ...
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How to calculate the fidelity of a certain gate of a IBMQ device in Qiskit using randomized benchmarking/tomography?
For example, I want to calculate the fidelity of a 1-qubit and 2-qubit gates (similar to the result shown in figure 2 in this paper). Is there any way to do that in Qiskit? I've gone through the ...
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How would one implement a quantum equivalent of a while loop in IBM QISkit?
I'm writing a simple multiplication algorithm that uses the Quantum Fourier Transform to repetitively add a number (the multiplicand) to itself and decrements another number (the multiplier). The ...
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Why does job.running in QISKit output False, even if the job is still running?
I submitted a job in the 0.5.0 version of QISKit using
job = execute(qc, 'ibmqx5', shots=shots)
This just submits the job, and does not wait for a result.
I ...
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How does measurement calibration work?
One of the possible ways to improve the results of an experiment on the IBM machine using the Qiskit language is to use the measurement calibration methods. This is the link to the documentation.
I ...
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What does fidelity mean?
I am learning qiskit software and this term keeps popping up and I am unable to get a grasp on the technical definition given by wikipedia. For example, the functions state fidelity and process ...
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Transform matrix into a combination of simple quantum gates
I am trying to transform this matrix into a combination of quantum gates but I cannot find any such functionality on Qiskit or anywhere else. I have tried to use Quirk but I do not understand it.
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What does the error rate on the IBMQ website mean？
How is the error rate pointed by the arrow defined? How did you get it?
thanks!
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What is the purpose of the TDG gate in QISKit?
The QISKIT documentation doesn't explain what a TDG gate does and I can't find it anywhere else online.
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Understanding quantum teleportation algorithm from qiskit tutorials
I am very new to quantum computing and I have recently started to experiment with qiskit module in python, by following tutorials and implementing simple algorithms....
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What is Qconfig in QISKit and how do I set it up?
To use certain things in QISKIt, such as acessing the real quantum processors, it seems that there is a file 'Qconfig.py'. That needs to be set up.
How do I do this?
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Status of software packages for quantum compiling
By "quantum compiling", what I mean is classical algorithms to solve the following problem: given a $SU(D)$ matrix $U$ (the goal) and a set of $SU(D)$ unitary matrices $V_1 \cdots V_N$ (the gates), ...
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Quantum SVM Algorithm Error on import
I am experimenting with some Qiskit ACQUA AI algorithms which require the following import statement:
from datasets import *
However, ...
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Checking value of variable using quantum approach
A beginner question after watching few videos.
Say, var=a; var can be either of two values, ...
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Get result measurement into a circuit with Qiskit
I'm trying to implement the three qubit bit flip code in Qiskit.
Therefore, I need to get the result of a measure of two ancilla qubits, to deduce which gate I need to use do recover my logical qubit....
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Quantum algorithm for linear system of equations (HHL) - Final Step: How can I find my vector of solution $|x\rangle$?
I'm working on solving a linear system with the quantum algorithm HHL. I don't understand how I can recover my vector $|x\rangle$ of real solution of the system starting from the states measured with ...
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Entanglement state preparation by using amplitude values
I have an algorithm that uses QRAM, after accessing the given QRAM that store M d-dimensional classical vectors, the state of the index register and the data register become entangled. But for now I ...
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Is there a common set of modules for user-defining-quantum-gate for QISKit
I am wondering if there exists a common library or a set of modules for user-defining-quantum-gate for QISKit.
If it does, could you tell me?
By referring to Define Quantum Gates and How to define ...
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Graphing the decoherence of qubits being used to perform an algorithm
How would I be able to graph the decoherence of qubits being used to perform an algorithm? I'm working with the IBMQ Qiskit framework and I'm trying to write a program that allows me to find the ...
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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 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
$$
U(\theta, \phi, \lambda) =
\begin{pmatrix}
\cos\left(\frac{\theta}{2}\right) & -e^{...
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ImportError: cannot import name 'QuantumProgram' from 'qiskit'
I get below error when I run a code on spyder environment:
File C:/MYPYTHON Programs/My Quantum Programs/Shor algo.py, line 4, in from ...
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How to implement the CCH gate in quantum computers available in clouds?
How to implement CCH gate in quantum computers available in clouds? If there is not any gate directly available for it, what are the possible ways to represent CCH?
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How to draw Qiskit's HHL algorithm as a circuit?
Qiskit Aqua has a module that implements the HHL algorithm:
https://qiskit.org/documentation/_modules/qiskit/aqua/algorithms/single_sample/hhl/hhl.html
How does one draw the implemented circuit?
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About the Qiskit draw function
Where does Qiskit put the rendered figure created by circuit.draw(output='mpl')?
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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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Getting a layout for qubits in Qiskit
I'm trying to use Qiskit's built in transpiler passes to do the following. I would like to take a quantum circuit and allocate the logical qubits to physical qubits.
The tutorial doesn't really ...
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How to parallelly run a quantum circuit on IBMQ?
I am trying to implement the following circuit
and my code is
The above circuit has size 5 and depth 3. My question is, how can I run the circuit parallelly. I mean, the gate ...
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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 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 create an Ising coupling gate with Qiskit?
I'm trying to apply a time evolution algorithm for a physical system I'm trying to simulate on QISkit, however, in order to do that, I need to use the so-called Ising coupling gate:
$I=\begin{pmatrix}...
