Questions tagged [qiskit]
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How can I obtain a unitary matrix of quantum circuit with angles as parametric?
I need to draw a quantum circuit in Clifford+T library and obtain automatically its transformation matrix. (I received a response to this part of my question before in the link: How can I obtain ...
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Can I partially collapse the wavefunction in Qiskit?
I'm trying to do something similar to this question, where I want to partially measure the system before getting the output. In particular, say I have 4 qubits. I want to measure two of them, and then ...
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Creating a custom gate (given by a matrix) more efficiently
I have the following gate (as represented by its matrix) on $4$ qubits which I hope to use in an error-detection code
$$M=\left(
\begin{array}{cccccccccccccccc}
1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 &...
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Cannot get the counts of a job in Qiskit with the usual command
When I use job.result().get_counts I am getting this result:
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How to verify teleportation was successful in this circuit?
In this circuit (link), q0 is Alice's qubit and q1, q2 are entangled qubits given to Alice ...
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Composing teleportation circuit in Qiskit Circuit Composer
I'm trying to create the teleportation circuit in IBM Qiskit Circuit Composer.
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Which method of executing a multi-control gate is more efficient?
I am interested in executing multi-control gates and I have found two methods to do so as explained below.
The first is taken from Nielsen and Chuang (2010) from their Figure 4.10. This method ...
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Partial Measurement of Quantum Circuit in Qiskit
I want to do partial measurement of quantum circuit containing two qubits in entangled state. I want to first measure one qubit and record the result. Thereafter, record the measurement of second ...
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State Vector Output for T$|1\rangle$ in Qiskit differs from manual calculation. Why is this so?
The T Gate is defined as $\begin{bmatrix} 1&0 \\ 0&e^{i\pi/4} \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} 1&0 \\ 0&\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}(1+i) \end{bmatrix}.$
So $\begin{bmatrix} 1&0 \\ 0&\...
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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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Depth for UCC ansatz
I tried to understand the notion of depth vs Trotter step in a uccsd circuit for the vqe algorithm in qiskit (I use an older version, 0.15). When I tried understanding it for a small system like H2, ...
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Simulating noise of googles quantum computers
Is there a way to simulate the noise of googles quantum computers using circ? In the same way that any of IBM's computers can be simulated using different backends?
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Grover's algorithm with matrix_product_state method
I implemented Grover algorithm with matrix_product_state method in qiskit. But I found something strange. I designed the oracle part come out $|1111\rangle$ but, real output was $0011\rangle$. I check ...
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How to set overwrite to true with IBMQ?
I'm trying to get setup with https://qiskit.org, but I'm having a problem.
I have dug around the internet for a bit and haven't been able to find anything.
When I try to run ...
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Qiskit BasicAer simulator options
I usually use Qiskit "Aer" to simulate quantum circuit with several methods such as statevector, density_matrix, ...
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Suppress Warnings
I wish to know how to suppress the following warning obtained on qiskit when I try to add two different types of noise to a qubit
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Qiskit BasicAer & Aer
While I'm simulating grover's algorithm, I found that with BasicAer backend it works well but with Aer it is not. What is the difference between ...
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Simulation of Noise in a particular quantum computer
I wish to be able to model a quantum computer with all the noise sources of an IBM quantum computer. For a given set of T1, T2, readout_errors, U2_errors and CNOT errors I want to know how to include ...
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JSONDecodeError with backend.run
I'm trying to follow tutorial on pulse simulation described in qiskit.org.
The generated PulseQobj is well executed with AER simulator, but it throws JSONDecodeError when using real backends (ex. ibmq-...
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Is there any algorithm that implements wavelet?
Is there any algorithm that implements wavelet (like there is Quantum Fourier Transform)? I've tried looking online, but couldn't find any, I wonder if something like this exists.
Thank you.
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How does VQE performs the measurement on a given Hamiltonian?
I'm trying to understand, given a specific Hamiltonian, for example $H = Z\otimes Z+X\otimes Z$, does the VQE algorithm calculates the expectation value of $Z\otimes Z$ first or does it calculates the ...
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Intuition behind the construction of an ansatz circuit
I'm learning about the VQE algorithm. When I looked at the declaration in Qiskit I saw you need to pass an ansatz which prepares the state. I looked at some commonly used ansatz functions, e.g. ...
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QPE example on Qiskit
I am learning to do QPE on qiskit. I wanted to choose a simple example to learn, and hence began with the state $|+\rangle$ and operator $X$.
I initialized $|+\rangle$ this way:
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Can I run Cirq on IBMQ?
Google's quantum computer is not yet available for the public. Is it possible to run Cirq on IBM's quantum computers, instead of Qiskit? And if so, how can I do it?
Thank you!
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How to use VQE function in Qiskit
As part of a project I'm working on, I want to use VQE algorithm to calculate the minimal eigenvalue for given Hamiltonian. I use Qiskit on IBM UI online.
The Hamiltonian is given as a sum of tensor ...
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Solving mathematical physics equations with Quantum Fourier Transform
Has qiskit already realised(solved) mathematical physics equations? For example, Laplace's equation,Poisson's equation or other? if it is yes, where can i find it?
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Odd behavior with Qiskit Pauli operators
I was creating a simple implementation of the Hadamard test when I came across the following, what seems like, strange behavior.
Consider the following snippet, which is part of the computating the ...
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Syndrome showing unexpected results for the [5,1,3] QEC code in qiskit
I have used the encoding procedure mentioned on page 35 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9705052.pdf for the [5,1,3] code and then built the circuit for measuring the stabilizers (XZZXI, IXZZX, XIXZZ,...
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Error when running HHL algorithm in Qiskit
I tried to solve a simple system of two simultaneous linear equations in with HHL algorithm in Qiskit. In particular the system is $Ax=b$, where
$$
A = \begin{pmatrix}
1.5 & 0.5 \\
0.5 & 1.5
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I don't get anything when calling circuit.draw()
I'm following the youtube tutorials for Programming on Quantum Computers and I've completed everything until I reach circuit.draw() since I dont get $|0\rangle$ or ...
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Using the qiskit_textbook Package
I've installed the qiskit_textbook package in Anaconda on Windows 10 using
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How to set 'max_parallel_threads', 'max_parallel_experiments' for BACKEND_OPTIONS in QuantumInstance
In QuantumInstance there are max_parallel_threads, max_parallel_experiments in ...
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An effective way to submit all the jobs for VQE/QAOA at a time to an IBMQ machine?
In Qiskit, I am solving a VRP for 5 nodes and it creates 20 variables for a QUBO. It runs in a 65 qubit machines (any machine below that many fails). Now, in such a typical solvers for optimization (...
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Solving Poisson's equation with Quantum Fourier Transform
I found Quantum Fourier Transform in the Qiskit textbook, but I'm looking specifically for how to solve Poisson's equation with the Quantum Fourier transform.
Are there any references that talk about ...
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Qiskit transpile with different set of basis gates
I want to use the Qiskit transpile function to decompose an arbitrary unitary matrix/ quantum circuit into a special kind of basis gates.
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What is the Clifford gates selection probability distribution used in the generation of randomized benchmarking circuits?
I've read that in standard randomized benchmarking implementations the random quantum circuits are generated through random gate selection from a uniformly distributed Clifford set of either 1 or 2-...
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Why VQE gives an incorrect ground state energy for a chain of 4 hydrogen atoms?
I am a bit hesitant to ask this very specific question, as I feel other people need not benefit from it. But since I have struggled for a while, and I think I should get some help.
So I am using VQE ...
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What do the “gate errors rates” mean physically for IBM's quantum computers?
I wish to simulate the gate errors from IBM's various quantum computers. However I am not sure what the gate error rate physically means. An error rate of say 0.01 for a particular means one in every ...
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Return outputs with zero counts
I am running a simple 3 qubit circuit which produces the following results:
{'000': 5, '001': 3, '010': 10, '100': 5, '101': 7, '110': 7, '111': 4}
There are no ...
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Qiskit implementation of Brassard Amplitude implementaion's Q operator
In Brassard's et al. work, the $Q$ operator is defined as
$$ Q =-\mathcal{A}\mathcal{S_0}\mathcal{A}^{-1}\mathcal{S_\chi}$$
I was wondering how is the negative sign at the leftmost side implemented ...
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How can i run a quantum circuit with parameterized gates many times on quantum experience?
I want to run a quantum circuit many times on real hardware so that this circuit has some of the parameters that I must change them each time (some of the angles of gates must change each time). how ...
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Custom Mixer for QAOA: Error 'Operator' object has no attribute 'primitive_strings'
I like to use as custom Mixer Hamiltonian for solving the TSP using QAOA.
The mixer and cost hamiltonians are described here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.03489.pdf - Chapter 5.1.
Therefore I need to ...
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Qiskit - difference between qasm_simulator and statevector_simulator in terms of memory and speed?
I'm trying to profile qiskit backends and I use randomized_benchmarking provided by qiskit.ignis.
Initially I ran a circuit with ...
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qasm_simulator generating identical results repeatedly
I wish to run a very simple circuit on the qasm_simulator backend. My circuit is
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How to realize Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in Qiskit
This is a very specific question, which I try to implement a simple dimerized tight-binding Hamiltonian on qiskit. The model is one dimensional, and defined as
$$
H = \sum_{\langle i,j\rangle} t_{ij} ...
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ClassicalRegister gives out just one line instead of two
Why do we have just one line here in c0 and not 2?
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Initialising impure density matrices
I wish to initalise the state $\rho=(1-\frac{p}{2})|0\rangle \langle0|+\frac{p}{2}|1\rangle\langle1|$, where p is some measure of decoherence. This is a mixed state. There are some suggestions on here ...
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Why do the qasm_simulator runtimes vary significantly for different IBMQ CouplingMap/NoiseModels?
I have been running VQE experiments locally using the qasm_simulator with actual IBMQBackend NoiseModels as shown in the Qiskit Textbook. I have noticed that the ...
