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 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:
$$
\frac{1}{...
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What is a “barrier” in Qiskit circuits?
I just started studying IBM Qiskit, and cannot find details about the barrier method on the QuantumCircuit class. It is shown in the circuit drawing, but I never heard about it after reading quantum ...
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How is the Grover-Algorithm applied to a database?
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I want to use the Grover-Algorithm to search an unsorted database for an element $x$. Now the question arises, how do I initialize index and value of the database with the qubits?
Example
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Composing multiple quantum circuits in single quantum program in QISKit
I was wondering if there is a way to compose a program with multiple quantum circuits without having the register reinitialized at $0$ for each circuit.
Specifically, I would like run a second ...
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Submitting jobs to IBM devices without Python
Qiskit can be used to submit jobs to IBM devices using Python (or Swift and JavaScript). But what if I want to use a different language?
For example, suppose I have a specific circuit I want to run. ...
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How to program a controlled Hadamard-Hadamard gate?
I'm trying to program a controlled gate as the figure below in Qiskit. Should it be sufficient to separate and control individually the Hadamard gates?
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Phase-Shift Gate in Qiskit
How to implement the phase shift gate in qiskit or ibmq?
Phase Shift Gate : $$\begin{pmatrix}e^{ia} && 0 \\ 0 && e^{ia}\end{pmatrix} = e^{ia}I$$
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How to quickly calculate the custom U3 gate parameters $\theta, \phi$ and $\lambda$ for any unitary?
In IBM Qiskit and Quantum Experience, the custom U3 gate is defined as
$$
U(\theta, \phi, \lambda) =
\begin{pmatrix}
\cos\left(\frac{\theta}{2}\right) & -e^{...
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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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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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If quantum computing always return random measurement (or uncertain measurement), why do we still need it?
I am very new to quantum computing and currently studying quantum computing on my own through various resources (Youtube Qiskit, Qiskit website, book).
As my mindset is still "locked" with ...
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What's meant by the depth of a quantum circuit?
I'm using Qiskit to create quantum circuits wherein I've this attribute called depth. The documentation states it is the length of the critical path here. What does ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it possible to run a general implementation Shor's algorithm on a real IBM quantum computer at least for N = 15?
I need to make a general implementation of Shor's algorithm that factors, at least, N = 15. I have been able to perform an implementation that works in simulators, with ProjectQ, but when running it ...
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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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Quantum circuit to implement matrix exponential
I want to build a circuit which will implement $e^{iAt}$, where $ A=
\begin{pmatrix}
1.5 & 0.5\\
0.5 & 1.5\\
\end{pmatrix}
$ and $t= \pi/2 $.
We see that $A$ can be written as, $A=1.5I+0.5X$. ...
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Would IBM's “compiler” turn my identity circuit into nothing?
If I were to create a circuit with the following gate:
$$\tag{1}R_\phi = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & e^{i \phi} \end{bmatrix},$$
with $\phi$ specified to be equal to 0, then the gate that 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 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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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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What are some current applications of Quantum Computing in drug discovery? Are there any test examples of this?
I am interested in applying the power of Quantum Computing to drug discovery. Although I realize that quantum computing is limited in regards to modeling drug-like compounds and their interactions ...
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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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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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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 gate 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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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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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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What is the location of the Qiskit config file?
I'm trying to follow the instructions here https://qiskit.org/documentation/getting_started.html. It says
The default backend for qiskit.visualization.circuit_drawer() or
QuantumCircuit.draw() is ...
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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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How to calculate an Expected Value of some operator acting on qubits?
I'm trying to implement the Variational Quantum Eigensolver in Qiskit.
Suppose, I have an operator $A = \sigma_1^z\sigma_2^z$ acting on some two-qubit state $|\psi\rangle$. After a measurement I get ...
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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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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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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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Can I find the axis of rotation for any single-qubit $U_3$ 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 to run a qasm file on IBMQ device?
I can found many qasm examples.
How can I run them on different IBMQ devices?
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Qubit Connectivity of IBM Quantum Computer
When simulating a quantum circuit using qiskit qasm_simulator, the qubits that you assigned to the quantum circuit can be ...
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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 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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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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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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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 ...
