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.
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About how to use the save_density_matrix function in qiskit to visualize the density map of some qubits
https://fr.answacode.com/quantumcomputing/20894/enregistrement-du-vecteur-detat-sur-plusieurs-emplacements-dans-un-circuit-quant
The above is a rare reference document about save_density_matrix, but ...
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How to select parts of qubits for visualization
This is an experiment. I drew a multi-qubit circuit, but I only need to visualize the qubits 0-3 in the end, that is, use the plot_state_city function, but it seems that something went wrong, and the ...
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How I determine the number of units of input and the number of units of output TwoLayerQNN?
I have 2 Linear layers: nn.Linear(64, 10) and nn.Linear(5, 2). I want to add TwoLayerQNN between these 2 linear layers above. How can I set up properly? I saw this example but something is not ...
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How can I plot a complex alpha in qiskit?
I'm new at QC, and one of the Qiskit quick exercises asks me to plot this ($j$ is the imaginary unit):
$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \begin{bmatrix} j\\1\end{bmatrix}$, so I deduced $\alpha=j$ and beta= 1.
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Invalid option cuStateVec_enable
I was trying to use qiskit with cuQuantum. And was able to build Qiskit Aer with cuQuantum without any errors, but cuStateVec is still not used for simulations.
When I pass the ...
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How to actually send Qiskit code to the que to be ran on an IBM Quantum Computer?
Apologies for what I feel is a very simple question, So I've figured out how to work with simulating a quantum circuit in Qiskit, but now I'm trying to figure out how I would actually send the code to ...
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How to solve the problem when the circuit depth and width are deepened during qiskit simulation
Simulation failed and returned the following error message:
ERROR: a circuit requires more memory than max_memory_mb.
Traceback (most recent call last):
Input In [5] in <cell line: 4>
counts = ...
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How can I know the number of qubits used in a job in qiskit?
How can I know the number of qubits used in a job in qiskit?
I can always do something like
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What phase should I expect from pauli X?
Here's an example I found that implements the phase estimation algorithm:
Here the eigenvector is initialized to the $|+\rangle$ state, which is an eigenvector of Pauli X with eigenvalue 1. The ...
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Get probabilistic state of a quantum circuit using Ry gate
Starting with a 2 qubit (each initialized as $|00\rangle$) I need to apply an $R_y(\theta)$ gate to get the following probabilistics:
24% $|00\rangle$
56% $|01\rangle$
6% $|10\rangle$
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When physically implementing superposition in a Transmon, what is the actual driving amplitude used in the microwave pulses by Qiskit?
I had been playing around with Qiskit Pulse, and I managed to run several single qubit circuits, however throughout these processes, I recurringly came across the driving amplitude and the signal ...
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A fundamental question on multiple rotation of a qubit using $SU(2)$
I am trying to implement qubit rotations using $SU(2)$ from scratch in order to understand and debug what happens under the (physical) hood. The reason why gates and high-level APIs are omitted here ...
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Why does Parity mapping allow 2 qubit reduction?
when mapping from fermionic to qubit hamiltonian, using Parity mapper allow us to reduce 2 qubit in the final hamiltonian. I would like to understand which kind of symmetries are being used and how it ...
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Can we teleport an arbitrary two-qubit state? [duplicate]
Can we teleport a quantum register $a\left|00\right> + b\left|01\right> + c\left|10\right> + d\left|11\right>$ ? How can I visualize the output for this? I was looking at the https://...
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Use qiskit calibration data for noisy simulation in Qutip
Is it possible to illustrate an example code in which a quantum circuit is taken as an input and the qiskit backend properties are feed to a custom compiler to perform noisy simulation using QuTip?
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How to adapt TSP to solve currency arbitrage
I came across Qiskit's 'Max-Cut and Traveling Salesman Problem' and would like to adapt it to currency arbitrage problem.
I have assigned currencies as nodes in the code below, and written the ...
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How to initialise own values instead of using Tsp.create_random_instance
In Qiskit's tutorial 'Max-Cut and Traveling Salesman Problem', below code is used to create the nodes:
tsp = Tsp.create_random_instance(n, seed=123)
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Hadamard on first qubit for two qubit state doesn't output what it should on Qiskit
I'm using python qiskit==0.36.2.
The following code:
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I am getting an error like this 'Invalid input data format for Statevector'
I am new at QC. I learn from a course. When I write to this code:
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Noise model correspondence to qiskit implementation for $CNOT$ gate
My question especially relates to the CNOT because I'd like to carefully understand how Qiskit simulate a CNOT model.
Specifically, from my understanding, two independent qubits are affected by a ...
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How can I write if conditions on quantum registers using qiskit
There is a quantum register measured to state $\left|00\right> $ How can i write a code to check weather the first qubit in measured state is 1 or zero and if 1 do some operations or if 0 do other ...
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Readout Error in Qiskit: What is a reasonable model?
The Readout Error in Qiskit is described here: https://qiskit.org/documentation/stubs/qiskit.providers.aer.noise.ReadoutError.html
Although it is easy to obtain such an error for 1-qubit for IBMs ...
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How to write a code to separate two qubits?
Is it possible to write a code to separate $\left|01\right> $ as $\left|0\right> ,\left|1\right> $ or are there any circuits i can use to get output like that?
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How to calculate the sum of $\sum\limits_{j}{\langle A|{{B}_{j}}\rangle |{{C}_{j}}\rangle }$ with quantum circuits?
How to calculate the sum of $\sum\limits_{j}{\langle A|{{B}_{j}}\rangle |{{C}_{j}}\rangle }$ with quantum circuits by qiskit, where
$\sum\limits_j \langle A| B_j\rangle |C_j \rangle$, $A,B_j,$ and $...
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QuantumCircuit with list of qbits as an argument
How to create a variable qbit QuantumCirciut like this ? I need to put v list on QuantumCircuit() method
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Is there a name for a gate that 'moves' one qubit to a new position via multiple SWAP gates?
Let's say there is a qubit at position $i$, and I want to move it to position $i'$. Without loss of generality, let's say $i < i'$. By 'move it' I mean, perform multiple $SWAP$ operations so that ...
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Qiskit QRAM encoding classical data into quantum state
I'm having trouble to encode classical data into quantum state in Qiskit IBM Quantum Lab. Let me explain the problem clearly: For university purpose I have to encode two 4-dimensional vectors with ...
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How can I evaluate the weights of different shares in a portfolio optimization problem?
I'm trying to do a comparison between the classical way to do portfolio selection with Markovitz and the quantum counterpart. With Markovitz I'm able to generate an output representing the best ...
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Qiskit: Get number of iterations for Iterative Amplitude Estimation
Trying to count the number of uses of my circuit $A$ in Grover iterate circuit $Q= -AS_0A^{\dagger}S_x$.
However, Qiskit's amplitude estimation algorithms such as IAE or FAE
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what's the point of the first barrier in this circuit?
Does the barrier here won't simplify the circuit between the two H-gates?
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QV circuits fail to execute in real devices
I tried to change a little the code here for running the quantum volume circuits in real devices. My code is
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Can someone explain to me what is T gate and tdg like im five?
I'm newbie to quantum computing, i read about these two gates on IBM quantum computing docs, but I can't seem to understand what is t-gate and tdg or t-dagger, can someone give me a simple explanation ...
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Subsystem Composition in Qiskit
I am reading Subsystem Composition in Qiskit Tutorial "Operators"
https://qiskit.org/documentation/tutorials/circuits_advanced/02_operators_overview.html#Subsystem-Composition
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Implementing Readout Error in my circuit seems to have no effect whatsoever
I am trying to perform a simulation using Qasm in order to see how the readout error actually affects my circuit. The circuit I am implementing is a trivial one, the three qubit one that implements ...
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CNOT chain vs CNOT fountain in qiskit
I was going through qiskit's synthesis module, their methods take an argument called cx_structure which has two possible values, ...
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Grovers algorithm: Diffuser on a state that isn't a linear superposition of all possible states
I've been trying to get Grover's algorithm to work, where part of the qubits have been measured, before Grovers is iterated. I have found a circuit that works, but I don't get why it does.
I have ...
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Train a quantum circuit whose parameters are not the input (Qiskit/PyTorch)
I was trying to write a more elaborate circuit based on Qiskit's tutorial here: https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-machine-learning/machine-learning-qiskit-pytorch.html
When I came to the training part, I ...
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Raising Pauli Gate to power gives TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for ** or pow(): 'complex' and 'ParameterVectorElement'
I am trying to implement a parameterised circuit in qiskit. Part of the circuit includes the operation
$(X \otimes X)^\alpha$
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For the same operator, when I use qiskit's VQE and QAOA solutions, the results are completely different
Specifically, I can't get the correct result using QAOA，A total of 6 qubits were used in this work，this is part of my code using VQE and QAOA
localsim = BasicAer.get_backend('qasm_simulator')
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How to estimate Qiskit circuit runtime before sending to run on IBM real quantum device?
Qiskit, I tried to estimate circuit runtime using gate_length from Backend.properties()
but its accuracy is very low (real system is 3.5 seconds, estimation is 0.00002 seconds).
So, are there other ...
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Qiskit: Mismatch between run_config.parameter_binds and all circuit parameters
I am trying to run the following circuit:
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Using QDRIFT on qiskit
I was recently trying to use Qiskit's inbuilt QDRIFT to construct a circuit for a simple Hamiltonian $H = XX + YY$. but I'm having an issue converting the result of ...
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Raise tensor product to float power in qiskit
I am trying to implement the gate
$(X \otimes X)^\alpha$
where $X$ is the standard Pauli-X gate, $\otimes$ is the tensor product and $\alpha$ is a real number. Is there a way to implement this in a ...
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What’s the difference between the DriveChannel and the Control Channel?
In my incredibly elementary understanding of superconducting qubits, a qubit is an LC circuit where the inductor has been replaced with a Josephson junction. In this system, microwave pulse operations ...
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How to use a Quantum input in a VQC in Qiskit?
I am currently working on a project about Quantum Image Encoding, mainly with FRQI and NEQR algorithms.
These codification methods use different circuit architectures (and not only parameters) ...
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Choosing a different optimizer when running QAOA in qiskit
I am trying to reproduce the QAOA example from https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-applications/qaoa.html and learn how to opt for a different optimizer.
The relevant block in the example is (towards the ...
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DIMACS Examples with few variables
I am currently working on an SAT Solver using quantum computing. However, since current quantum computers are limited to a few qubits, I am in need of examples ranging from 4-30 variables. I know of a ...
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Azure quantum error message
I am using the IonQ QPU on the Azure quantum provider with a Google Cloud API to access the native gates. As you can see in the image attached, I got this error:
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Quantum AND† gate
In the paper Implementing Grover oracles for quantum key search on AES and LowMC, the authors use a different construction of AND gate and its adjoint rather than the Toffoli gate to decrease the T-...
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How well different featuremap encode the data？
Recently, I was doing research on QML. Qiskit gave detailed steps on how to encode data into quantum states, but I was confused about one point: there are different feature mapping methods under ...
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