Questions tagged [quantum-gate]
For questions regarding usage, performance, implementation, application or theory related to quantum gates.
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How to decompose arbitrary gates in Qiskit?
I have been exploring quantum computing, I have no idea of decomposing arbitrary gates in Qiskit. Can someone help me with an example?
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Achieve a control gate with 2 hadamard coins
I want to implement two Toffoli gates with 4 qubits:
3 serving as control qubits (the 2 hadamard coins and one other qubit) and
the last one as target qubit and 3 qubits (2 coins 1 target qubits) as ...
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What is cascade?
While I'm reading some literature about synthesizing quantum circuit, I couldn't understand what cascades of Toffoli gates means. How Toffoli cascade runs in quantum circuit?
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Decomposition of an arbitrary gate using given matrix in Qiskit
If I have a matrix of say
$$
\begin{pmatrix}
1.5 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1.6 \\
0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
\end{pmatrix},
$$
how do I ...
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Simpler implementation of the Toffoli gate on IBM Q for special circumstances
On current quantum hardware, a depth of circuit is constrained because of noise. In some cases, results are totally decoherent and as a result meaningless. This is especially true when Toffoli gates ...
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If an auxiliary qubit is allowed, how to construct toffoli gate in easier way?
We know if we don't use auxiliary, the construction of Toffoli gate will be:
However, if now you are allowed to use one auxiliary qubit, how to realize a CCNOT in a simplier way? (Can we only use X,Y,...
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What do empty white circles mean in a quantum circuit?
I'm studying Shor's algorithm.
but I see from the beginning this empty circle.
what this circle means??
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What is the opposite of measurement, in a quantum circuit?
My understanding is that at the level of quantum mechanics, almost all operations are reversible in time. Most gates in a quantum circuit clearly obey this rule; they can be reversed by applying some ...
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Swap test to calculate inner product with qiskit for multi-qubit states
Is it possible to perform a controlled swap test with multiple targets with qiskit? I have tried using cswap(ancilla[0],qb1,qb2), where qb1 is an n-qubit register and qb2 is as well
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Why QFT can be replaced by Hadamard gates?
I'm studying Shor's Algorithm.
In the book, author explains QFT can be replaced by Hadamard gates?
Why this process is possible??
Thank you everybody. This is QPE. I attach part of book!!
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Easiest hash function to implement on Qiskit
Trying to build an Oracle circuit for Grover's algorithm that will try to find a desired input in order to get a certain output of a hash function.
Was wondering if there were any 4 or 8 bit hash ...
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Why Non-Clifford gates are more complex than Clifford gates?
There are two groups of quantum gates - Clifford gates and non-Clifford gates.
Representatives of Clifford gates are Pauli matrices $I$, $X$, $Y$ and $Z$, Hadamard gate $H$, $S$ gate and $CNOT$ gate. ...
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How to obtain the noise of a circuit in Qiskit?
I referred to the following Qiskit's document: state_fidelity.
The inputs of state_fidelity are quantum state vectors or density matrices.
For example, $|00\rangle$...
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What is the $\lambda$ parameter in the $U3$ gate used for?
The most general single qubit gate is $\mathrm{U3}$ given by matrix
$$
\mathrm{U3}=
\begin{pmatrix}
\cos(\theta/2) & -\mathrm{e}^{i\lambda}\sin(\theta/2) \\
\mathrm{e}^{i\phi}\sin(\theta/2) & ...
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Controlled NOT gate using multiple control qubits in Q#
I am trying to implement the Grover's search algorithm using Q# and I am not able to implement the oracle (black box) part for the search of state $|1010\rangle$. How to implement the controlled NOT ...
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How will quantum computers access large amounts of storage?
I've seen many articles in the popular press saying that quantum computers will enable searching through huge amounts of data in an instant. But I can't figure out how the current architectures can do ...
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Global phase and single qubit gate: does it actually matter for two (or more) qubit gates?
Consider the $X$ gate. Mathematically, we have $X=i e^{-i\frac{\pi}{2} X}$
But as global phase of unitaries don't matter because they will simply act a global phase to the wavefunction, we can ...
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Constructing a circuit for $C^1(U)$ for rotation operators with TWO single qubit gates and CNOT gate
This is the exercise 4.23 from Nielsen and Chuang, asking that if it is possible to construct $C^1(U)$ for $U=R_{x,y}(\theta)$ with TWO single qubit gates and CNOT gate. My answer is no, and I would ...
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IBM quantum computers gate delay values
I am doing an state of the art study about the existing quantum computer technologies and one of the parameters of interest is the gate delay value, as it determines the time expected from a gate from ...
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How to interpret a 4 qubit quantum circuit as a matrix?
This is part of Simon Algorithm (Initial state + some Oracle function)
There is a post that explains how to interpret circuits (How to interpret a quantum circuit as a matrix?), but I'm not sure how ...
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Where are the physical gates in the Google processor?
Google's article Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor states that the processor "53 qubits, 1,113 single-qubit gates, 430 two-qubit gates, and a measurement on each qubit, ...
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Can two intrinsic angular momentum directions (spin) be used for future entanglement after collapse? [closed]
Persuant to all contributors, here I will use a coin toss analogy since the vector direction is either up or down (heads or tails). Two coins will be used for each of two tosses. It's assumed that the ...
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How to find eigenvalues and eigenvector for a quantum gate? [closed]
I need to know how can I find eigenvalues and eigenvectors for a quantum gate, for example $X$ gate.
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Can we apply Grover to meet-in-the-middle attack?
$\newcommand{\Ket}[1]{\left|#1\right>}$
If we have the superposition
$$\displaystyle \sum \dfrac{1}{2^n} \Ket x \Ket{ f(x)} \Ket 0 \Ket y \Ket{g(y)} \Ket 0 \Ket {\delta_{x,y}} ,$$ here $\delta_{x,...
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Decomposition in projectQ
I'm currently working in ProjectQ, I have to decompose the Toffoli Gate to simpler gates and have to visualize it after decomposition but I'm not sure where to start with and also how to create a ...
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What unitary gate produces these quantum states from the computational basis?
Suppose that we have one-qubit unitary $U$ that maps
$$ \left| 0 \right> \longmapsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left| 0 \right> + {\frac{1+i}{2}} \left| 1\right> $$
and
$$ \left| 1 \right> \...
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Simplify the system to find the $\theta$, $\phi$ on bloch sphere [duplicate]
I have problem to simplify the quantum system states on bloch sphere to get $\theta$, $\phi$ values,
My question is not duplicated!
$$
\left| \varphi \right>=\frac{1+i}{\sqrt{3}} \left| 0 \right>...
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Why is implementation of controlled Hadamard on IBM Q so complex?
With reference to question how to implement CCH gate I easily realized that CH gate can be implemented with $\mathrm{Ry}$ gates and $\mathrm{CNOT}$ followingly:
Note $\theta = \frac{\pi}{4}$ for ...
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How to implement controlled multiqubit gates in qiskit?
To implement a stabilizer code I need to measure stabilizer generators, as shown in Fig. 10.16 in Nielsen & Chuang. Is there a way for controlled multiqubit gates in qiskit?
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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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Pauli I in eoh procedure doesn't become a global phase gate in qiskit evolution_instruction method. Possible consequences
If one has two qubits in arbitrary stats and wishes to apply a controlled version of some global phase gate $P(\varphi) = \begin{pmatrix} e^{i\varphi} & 0 \\ 0 & e^{i\varphi} \end{pmatrix}$ ...
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Decomposing a $(w+1)$-qubit permutation gate into $w$-qubit permutation gates, SWAPs and NOTs
Say I have a quantum circuit of $w+1$ qubits with a permutation gate (mapping computational basis states to computational basis states) that does the permutation $(i, i+1)(i+4, i+5)$ on $w+1$ qubits ...
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How to implement a Fredkin gate using Toffoli and CNOTs?
Inspired by a question Toffoli using Fredkin, I tried to do "inverse" task, i.e. to implement Fredkin gate (or controlled swap). In the end I implemented it with three Toffoli gates.
Firstly, I ...
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Computing circuit depth in Cirq
I ran into a problem of how to extract circuit depth from Cirq circuit object. In Cirq circuits consist of a list of Moments. Number of moments is not equal to the circuit depth in general case.
I ...
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Can you use Rz to flip from $|+\rangle$ to $|-\rangle$?
Here's the Rz matrix:
$$
Rz(\theta) =
\begin{bmatrix}
e^{-i\theta/2} & 0 \\
0 & e^{i\theta/2}
\end{bmatrix}
$$
As I understand it, Rz rotates around the Z axis on the Bloch sphere. Since $|+\...
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What is the corresponding code for finding the state of a qubit on the Bloch sphere?
To find the state of a qubit on the Bloch sphere we use the following formula:
\begin{equation}
|\psi\rangle=\mathrm{cos}\frac{\theta}{2}|0\rangle+\mathrm{e}^{i\phi}\mathrm{sin}\frac{\theta}{2}|1\...
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Is it possible to write a Q# teleportation code which returns a qubit?
In the teleportation codes I have found so far from Microsoft, the codes are written based on returning the bool values but I wonder if in teleportation process, ...
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Print data() with statevector and qasm simulator - Qiskit
I am new to Qiskit and I am trying to implement some very simple 1-qubit gates.
I want to initialize the state of the qubit (to 0 and then to 1) and then apply the gate and print the new state of the ...
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Represent qubit in a superposition [closed]
How do we represent a qubit $\vert 1 \rangle$ and put in a superposition (in dirac)?
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Quantum adder mod 4 [closed]
Does anyone has (or is aware of) a solution to Nielsen's QCQI 4.36 exercise: construct a circuit to add two-qubit numbers x and y modulo 4 vs $|x,y\rangle \rightarrow |x, x+y \mod 4\rangle$
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What is the difference between “intraphoton” and “interphoton” entanglement?
I am trying to better understand the following:
What is the difference between Intraphoton Entanglement and Interphoton Entanglement?
I am new in this field and i want to proceed some work on ...
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Can Toffoli operate on a qubit in superposition?
I understand that CNOT and Toffoli (CCNOT) gates are not universal for quantum computation since they (alone) cannot create superposition. Moreover, it is totally possible to perform a CNOT operation ...
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How to transform e.g., a 4 by 4 unitary matrix into a quantum circuit
I am new to Quantum Computing. I would really appreciate if some one could offer me some ideas, suggestions and/or useful references to solve the following problem about realizing an arbitrary ...
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Matrix representation of a measurement
It is well known that any operation on a quantum computer is described with a unitary matrix (a quantum gate) because quantum computing is reversible.
Only non-reversible operation is a measurement ...
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Gate times for different qubit technologies
Different qubit technologies exist and for each, operations are implemented differently. My question is what the typical times are for the standard gates (single qubit rotations, Hadamard, CNOT, T, ...
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Which gate combination should I use? [closed]
From my circuits in ibm q the final output is given by only a single qbit Which gives state |ψ⟩
Tell me a combination of gates to do the following
If |ψ⟩ = |0⟩
Then output |0⟩
If |ψ⟩=α|0⟩+β|1⟩
...
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Quantum gates rotate qbit around bloch sphere? Or quantum gates rotate bloch sphere around qbit?
Quantum gates rotate qbit around bloch sphere?
Or quantum gates rotate bloch sphere around qbit?
"The simplest quantum gates are the Paulis: X, Y and Z. Their action is to perform a half rotation ...
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Why qiskit superconducting device native gates different from that of trapped ion device?
For IBMQ device based on superconducting technology, when we transpile the circuit, it is decomposed of U1,U2,U3 and CNOT gates, which are its native gates.
However for trapped ion device, its native ...
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Custom gates on IBM Q
I realized that QASM supports custom gates. However, when I tried to create the gate, transpiling error appeared both on simulator and real quantum processor. I suspect that IBM has not implemented ...
