Questions tagged [simulation]
For questions about simulating either quantum computers or simulating things on quantum computers.
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Is it possible to set quantum volume in IBM Quantum simulator?
A quantum volume serves as a metric of a quantum processor quality. So far, IBM Quantum provides processors with quantum volume up to 128. Freely accessbile processors have QV up to 32. A user using ...
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Simulating readout errors on aer simulator
I'm trying to simulate quantum experiments using a customized noise model. Here's my code:
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Is the SWAP gate a Clifford Gate? How would I express it using the Clifford Gate generators?
By my calculations, it looks like the SWAP gate is a Clifford Gate. See the following table:
I follow the same method as in this paper for showing a gate is a Clifford Gate. I got the above table by ...
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How is Quantum Phase Estimation useful for simulating dynamics of a many-body system?
I am quite aware of the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) as well as the very closely related topic of Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE). The latter is usually motivated as follows:
Given a unitary $U$ and ...
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Does noise model in qiskit impact the optimized parameters for QAOA?
I have read this paper about the effects of quantum noise on QAOA.
In the conclusion, it says: QAOA is a noise-tolerant algorithm, quantum noise does not change the QAOA quantum circuit parameter ...
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Roughly speaking, How many qubits will be needed to study (or simulate) a molecule such as: C29H31N7O?
It is often said that one of the early applications for Quantum Computers will be drug discovery.
Q: Roughly speaking, How many qubits will be needed to study (or simulate) a molecule such as: $C_{29}...
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Any simulator packages for quantum annealing/adiabatic quantum computation?
Are there any simulator packages for quantum annealing/adiabatic quantum computation, like Qiskit Aer but for quantum annealing?
There seems to be only classical heuristics in D-Wave Ocean package, ...
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How can I get the results from simulating noise models?
I'm trying to run some simulations of my quantum circuits using qasm simulator. I first tried to import the noise data from a quantum device and then use that information on qasm. Here's part of my ...
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Calculating measurement probabilities from a quantum circuit
Currently I'm trying to calculate the circuits I'm building and show that they work as intended. Somehow, my measurments do not, at all, represent my calculated expectancies. This is my circuit in <...
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Difference between Aer.get_backend('aer_simulator') and AerSimulator()
In Qiskit, there are several ways to choose simulator: one is
from qiskit import Aer
backend = Aer.get_backend('aer_simulator')
result = backend.run(circ).result()
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How to import a generic stabilizer code in stim
I just started using stim to simulate the performance of quantum error correcting codes. I hope this is the right place to ask questions about the subject. The
example code
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Random circuits with google cirq
For my dissertation I need to simulate random circuits and I have been trying to use google Cirq for that. Looking at the documentation I have seen how to create my own circuit and simulate it, but it ...
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What are the evidences that quantum simulation have a future?
Here future means orders of improvement which can solve rather different problems e.g. emergent phenomenon.
For example, the first integrated logic only have several transistors, now it have billions ...
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Could quantum computers answer the question of whether QCD predicts quark gluon confinement?
As I understand it, it is not known whether or not QCD actually predicts quark gluon confinement.
As I understand it answering questions in quantum field theories is generally harder in terms of ...
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What is difference between qasm_simulator and ibmq_qasm_simulator?
There are many ways how to simulate a quantum circuit on IBM Q. However, in partiuclar I am interested in a difference between qasm_simulator and ...
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Accuracy of rotational gates on IBM Quantum
As a computer memory is finite, it seems reasonable to assume that a rotational angle of gates $Rx$, $Ry$ and $Rz$ (and $U1$, $U2$ and $U3$ gates as well) has some smallest step which can be ...
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Can I extract information from a single shot efficiently?
I'm running a quantum simulation and want to obtain some information from a single shot of an experiment. Here's part of the code I'm working on:
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What is the role of entanglement in quantum-computational speed-up?
The way I see it, there are three main quantum properties utilized in quantum computing - superposition, quantum interference, and quantum entanglement. I'm looking to understand which one is ...
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Efficient simulation of linearly assembled Quantum States
In this paper section 4.2 the author describes how to efficiently simulate linearly assembled quantum states. When describing the procedure to do so the author shows the following circuit:
The ...
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Explicit states with high $T$ count
It is well known, that the Clifford $+T$ gate set consisting of the gates $\lbrace H, S, CNOT, T \rbrace$ is universal for quantum computation, that is, for any n-qubit unitary $U:\left( \mathbb{C}^2\...
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How can I simulate the Avg CNOT Error on IBMQ Backends?
I want to know exactly how to estimate the Avg CNOT Error rate for IBMQ Backends?
For instance, I tried to estimate the Avg CNOT Error rate for Belem Backend; I randomly prepared the 00,01,10,11 ...
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What is the maximum number of qubits that can be simulated by Qiskit using any method?
I'm looking to write an algorithm (potentially) using Qiskit, and am trying to find out what the maximum number of Qubits is that Qiskit can support with various simulation methods.
From reading other ...
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Is a black-box gate whose output is conditional on the value of an input amplitude possible?
Suppose we have a qubit in the state $|q\rangle = a |0\rangle + b |1\rangle$, and another ancilla qubit $= |0\rangle$.
I wish to have the following black-box gate:
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Which single fixed unitary can be used to efficiently simulate arbitrary quantum circuit?
Let $|p\rangle|00\ldots0\rangle$ be an initial (basis) state, where $p$ is a binary encoding of the circuit to be simulated and zeros are the working space. We apply some fixed unitary transformation $...
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How can I specify the qubits on quantum computers that I want to use?
Suppose I have the following 2-qubit quantum circuit:
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How to create CNOT from an entangling gate and arbitrary single-qubit gates?
I am working on the classical simulation of quantum circuits. I know how to efficiently implement the following entangling gate, which -- in the following paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.02118 -- ...
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Why does entanglement complicate quantum simulation?
To model a single qubit one would need enough memory for $2$ complex numbers. If we have an $N$ qubit system, we would have to store $2N$ complex numbers.
The general statement is that to store an $N$-...
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When and how do we use basis embedding?
It is suggested in various sources that a possible approach to representing classical data as a quantum state is simply to take the binary sequence $x$ and turn it to $|x\rangle$ (i.e., "basis ...
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Why does running my circuit on Quantum Hardware produce such unexpected resultss?
I am using Jupyter Notebook with Qiskit.
I have created a program that can add two 3-bit numbers together. When I simulate this program on a qasm_simulator it works as expected and I can add any two 3-...
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What is the superop simulator in Qiskit for?
I'm trying to understand what the use case of a superop simulator would be. My understanding is that density matrix is generally more resource intensive than state vector, but it has additional ...
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How accurate are Qiskit’s unitary and Statevector simulators for very large circuits?
Background: I wrote a code that takes a Qiskit circuit C as an input and outputs a random circuit C’ such that C and C’ have the same unitaries. I tested my code using Qiskit’s Statevector simulator ...
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'Best practices' for making Stim run as fast as possible?
I'm currently testing out an error-correction surface code circuit in Stim.
I've tried a 19x19 surface code over 10k rounds of syndrome extraction sampled 256 times, and this takes about 165 seconds. ...
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What is the largest reported number of qubits used in a VQE simulation?
Numerous studies have investigated the simulation of an X-qubit circuit, demonstrating the 'classical simulation supremacy' on supercomputers. X is less than 50. However, useful VQE circuits are often ...
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Measuring entanglement entropy using a stabilizer circuit simulator
I'm trying to simulate stabilizer circuits using the Clifford tableau formalism that lets you scale up to hundreds of qubits. What I want to do is find the entanglement entropy on by splitting my ...
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How do I export the rightmost state of circuit wires (qbits and cbits) in a qiskit simulation
qiskit has a quantum teleportation tutorial which winds up with this simulation code:
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Setting the Initial State of Density Matrix Simulation in Cirq
I am trying to use the DensityMatrixSimulator in Cirq. I want to append gates to the circuit conditional on measurements. In order to reduce computational resources, I am trying to run these ...
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Memory Requirements for Qiskit Aer Simulator
I'm trying to work out how much memory is used for simulations of different sizes using the Aer simulator.
Here are my calculations:
$$ \text{Number of Qubits} = n $$
$$ \text{Number of Amplitudes} = ...
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What's the state-of-the-art to calculate $|Ab\rangle$, given a matrix $|A\rangle$ and a vector $|b\rangle$ in QRAM encoding
Assuming that we have a matrix $A\in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ stored in a quantum superposition, i.e.
$$|A\rangle= \frac{1}{\|A\|_F}\sum_{i,j=0}^{n-1}{a_{ij}}|i,j\rangle$$
and a vector $b\in \mathbb{R}^...
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Matrix multiplication through Block Encodings
For a project, I want to simulate a matrix multiplication on a simulated quantum circuit. Assuming that we have a matrix $A\in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ stored in a quantum superposition, i.e.
$$|A\...
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Statevector Simulation of QAOA always finds exact solution
My question is simple: does applying QAOA with a statevector simulation always result in a perfect solution?
I'm trying to calculate the best $\gamma$ & $\beta$ that solve certain problems but my ...
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Trotter error for bosons in various encodings
Mapping second-quantized bosonic modes onto qubits can be done using various encodings. Each of those have their pro et contra. Fewer qubits — more gates, and vice versa. Encoding an $N$-level bosonic ...
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Types of Quantum Computer [duplicate]
I am confused of all that different Quantum computers.
please correct me if I say something wrong.
There are two main different types of quantum computing:
Quantum Gates based computing
quantum ...
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Simulating QPE + Grover using Low-Rank Stabilizer Decomposition
I want to simulate a 40-45 Qubit circuit that applies Grover + QPE.
I've tried running a simulation on qiskit but can't really go past 18 qubits on my machine. As an alternative, I've been reading ...
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Get the gates after fusion optimization in Qiskit statevector simulator
I tried to obtain the gates after fusion in Qiskit-aer statevector simulator. What I can find now is that it provides a backend option saying fusion_verbose (bool): Output gates generated in fusion ...
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noisy circuit by openfermion
I am working on designing quantum error mitigation algorithms for simulating chemical systems. Therefore, a necessary component is to add noisy to the ideal circuit when using a quantum simulator. But ...
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Q# Simulation Behavior
I am attempting to run a series of tests on a Q# program I'm running on the local simulator, but I'm not seeing any way to use >1 shot and collect the results of those shots at once, as in ...
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No. of bits in 160 qubits computer [duplicate]
I read in a book that (https://hub.packtpub.com/quantum-expert-robert-sutor-explains-the-basics-of-quantum-computing/)
160 qubits (quantum bits) could hold $2^{160} \approx1.46\times 10^{48}$ bits ...
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Applications of Quantum Computing to Economics
I have recently been interested in the field of 'Econophysics' which as I understand it is the practice of basically applying results of physics in areas such as non-linear dynamics and stochastic ...
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Job fails when using PulseSimulator: Job Status: job incurred error
I'm trying to simulate a basic circuit using the PulseSimulator in Qiskit. The following Qiskit Pulse code works when I run it on the real device, but not when ...
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Simulate a quantum channel with a certain fidelity
I am looking for an easy-to-use framework for simulating a quantum channel that can accept the desired average fidelity of the channel as input.
For example, if I want a channel with 98% average ...