Questions tagged [simulation]
For questions about simulating either quantum computers or simulating things on quantum computers.
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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 ...
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Are almost-Clifford circuits almost easy to simulate?
Circuits consisting entirely of Clifford operations in $\{X, Y, Z, H, S, \text{CNOT} \}$ are "easy" to simulate classically since there is a method that can fully compute such circuits over $...
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How can I fix the BrokenProcessPool error in Qiskit?
I'm running a set of quantum circuits using the ibmq_qasm_simulator. However, sometimes my code works for the simulation, but sometimes it doesn't, and the system ...
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Trying to perform Quantum Phase Estimation on T-gate
I'm trying to perform QPE on the T-gate in Quirk but I'm not getting the correct result. For the T-gate, I should be measuring (001) with 100% probability, but instead, I'm getting the following:
I'...
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Trying to understand this measurement of a simple quantum circuit
It's a newbie question, I know. But I was just wondering if someone could help me understand why this simple circuit results with the measurement shown. I've just didn't get the last step. It's not ...
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What is the non-recursive form of the sum-over-paths simulation algorithm?
In my previous question on this, I managed to come up with a simple recursive algorithm for the sum-over-paths method. However, what other snatches of material I can find online don't use recursion ...
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Is there a faster way to get 'a list of' result from 'a list of inputs'?
I had a question about obtaining the probability of a certain state from the histogram, still using this example, suppose there's a variable in my quantum circuit, it's values are stored in an 'np....
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Is it possible to construct Grover search from Clifford gates only?
In the article Is Quantum Search Pratical the authors emphasized that a complexity of an oracle is often neglected when advantages of Grover search are discussed. In the end, a total complexity of the ...
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What is the “sum-over-paths” picture of quantum computing?
In chapter 9 of Scott Aaronson's book Quantum Computing Since Democritus (see online progenitor lecture notes here), he introduces a strange (to me) conceptualization of applying two Hadamard-like ...
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Length / transpilation issues with Grover's algorithm
I would like to discuss the discrepancies between what we see in the simulator versus what we see in the actual running of the code on any IBMQ machine for any qubits at 5 or above. I am doing a final ...
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Computation of qubits with quantum gates using density matrix form
I'm making a quantum circuit with qubits and quantum gates. While I'm doing it, I have some problem with it. My calculation process is below.
As you can see, start qubit is $|0 \rangle$ and after 'X' ...
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Qiskit “statevector_gpu” method not available
I am trying to use the statevector_gpu simulation method in Qiskit Aer (see this page). I installed qiskit-aer-gpu according to ...
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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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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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Where can I get circuits of interest to quantum chemistry to try and simplify?
I am a computer science undergraduate working on a project in simplifying quantum circuits (using the ZX-calculus). I was hoping to try to simplify some circuits of interest rather than randomly ...
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How is a quantum simulator able to simulate a quantum mechanical properties on a classical computer?
I'm confused as to how a classical computer can simulate quantum mechanical properties through the use of classical bits. Why do we need quantum computers if a quantum simulator can do it's job on a ...
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What is the best approach for classically simulating quantum devices?
Now I'm focusing on quantum simulation (especially on classical supercomputers), but I saw there exist so many simulators. Is there any criteria to judge which is the best?
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Inconsistency in Qiskit Aqua CircuitSampler from Operator Flow
I am trying to wrap my head around Qiskit Aqua Operators and I stumbled upon this:
My code
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Why is the lowest energy important to simulate a quantum system?
Quantum computers promise that they will simulate complex quantum systems, and I keep hearing that finding the ground state of that system (using for example Variational quantum eigensolver) is ...
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Why running time of qasm simulator is significantly smaller in comparison with quantum machines?
I ran a 3-qubit measurement circuit on QASM simulator as well as on IBM Q Melbourne, Santiago and Vigo machines. The running time on the simulator is in few milliseconds (400-800) while in the case of ...
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How to plot histogram using statevector simulator?
I'm trying to run my quantum circuit and plot the simulation result (counts) using the statevector simulator (to avoid 'shot noise'). However, instead of a 2-d histogram, the examples on Qiskit ...
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How can I print out the probability of a certain state in histogram?
This is a simulation I did in my program. I'm hoping to print out the probability of the state $|0001\rangle$ (which is $0.052$), and store this number in a letter (a). How can I do this? Thanks!!
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How to fix “QiskitChemistryError:PySCF is not installed”
I’m trying to simulate LiH using VQE. But I keep getting the error
QiskitChemistryError:PySCF is not installed
And I tried several ways to see whether my driver for the molecule was typed wrong. But ...
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Unable to retrieve result for Job Error during VQE simulation
I am attempting to run a VQE calculation on the 'ibmq_qasm_simulator'. The job is failing with a series of errors caused by:
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Any good resources for learning about quantum networks and how to do a simulation of BB84 protocol?
I'm a communication engineering student. And I'm thinking of doing my project on BB84 protocol but I don't know where to start. As a beginner, are there any documents or tutorials about quantum ...
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Simulating a Quantum Network over a real Classical Network Using Simulaqron
I'm trying to simulate a quantum network over a real classical network using the Simulaqron framework. I know the documentations says this is possible but I am having trouble finding examples of how ...
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Preparing any superposition of fixed Hamming weight states
There exists a nice way of preparing any superposition (with real amplitudes — this is the case I'm interested in) of states $\{\ldots0001\rangle,\,|\ldots0010\rangle,\,|\ldots0100\rangle,\ldots\}$, ...
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IBMQ_Melbourne Readout error
I am trying to simulate an experiment on IBM's melbourne quantum computer and here are the results
Qasm simulator :
ibmq_16_melbourne:
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why is there such high probability of unwanted states i....
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Why should we use density matrices to simulate quantum systems with noise?
Why we should use density matrices to simulate quantum systems with noise?
I found that the any QEC circuit is included by some quantum gates just like normal cases, which means the state vector can ...
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How the simulator work?
Recently I focused on how to simulate in classical computer, and I found Qiskit offers qasmsimulator and statevector simulator. ...
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A question about how does the single qubit gate simulated in simulator?
I have found the procedure of simulation process as this picture :
Image reference. So in the low-level compilers, all single-qubit gates are approximated by the universal gate set (CNOT, H, T, S).
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What would be the difference between using qsharp library on python vs learning the Q# langauge?
One difference of course is the syntax. But I'm guessing the idea is eventually quantum computers will be able run Q#, whereas now it uses simulations. Will code written in Python with the qSharp ...
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Why do I get positive amplitudes when I create a qiskit StateVectorCircuit from only negative amplitudes?
I am using amplitude encoding to encode my features in a quantum circuit. With this I expect to encode e.g. 32 features in five qubits.
For the encoding I use qiskit's ...
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How does a classical computer simulate nonclassical correlations?
This may be a dumb question, if so please forgive me, it is late at night.
I have learned that a classical computer can simulate a quantum computer in exponential time and space, but classical ...
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A question about how to emulate quantum states and computation on classical computer
I have understood the concept of "universal quantum gates" in real quantum computer, and the quantum gates and states can be emulated as matrix in classical computer, and the matrix operation can be ...
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How to run an approximate simulation, and why
I'm looking at the Qiskit getting started documentation, https://qiskit.org/documentation/getting_started.html. They create a quantum circuit and run an approximate simulation on it 1000 times:
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How to turn off multiprocessing in TensorFlow Quantum
Some background: I'm currently running the same training algorithm with a classical neural network and a quantum circuit, respectively. The NN is implemented in Keras with a TensorFlow backend, the ...
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Is it a good idea to publish a research paper about the simulation of BB84 protocol?
I'm an engineering student. As my end of year project I've simulated BB84 protocol using simulaqron(python). I'm thinking about publishing a paper about this simulation.
I haven't published any ...
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What is the usefulness of the Suzuki-Trotter formula?
I can't seem to wrap my head around the suzuki-trotter formula. I have seen This answer but I am still confused of the applicability of the formula. Let me explain:
As I understand it Trotterization ...
