Questions tagged [simulation]
For questions about simulating either quantum computers or simulating things on quantum computers.
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How to generate a SWAP of $N$ qubits?
I know that SWAP2 (swaps 2 qubits) gate looks like:
$$
SWAP2=\begin{bmatrix}
1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1
\end{...
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How do I apply a controlled gate to specific qbits in the register?
Say, I have a specific scheme,
where I need to specify inputs for controlled R logical gate, which here is
$$
R(\theta)=\begin{bmatrix}
1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
0 &...
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How is the precision of a quantum simulation algorithm actually proved?
The problem of quantum simulation can be formulated as follows:
Given a Hamiltonian $H$ ( $2^n \times 2^n$ hermitian matrix acting on $n$ qubits), a time $t$ and maximum simulation error $\epsilon$,...
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In qiskit, doing 2 subsequent measurements of a Hadamard gate on the same qubit always gives 0 on the 2nd one
When I execute the following circuit, I expect that in both classical registers, the content is identical.
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Can my MatLab code be used as a good simulator of a quantum computer?
I have tried to program universal quantum computer simulator in MatLab.
Please find a code here:
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/73035-quantum-computer-simulator
Can be this ...
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What is the current research status in simulating many-particle systems from first principles?
There is a huge gap between basic physical laws and predicting many particle systems from first principles. It will be so amazing if we can predict most properties of many particle systems (from mass ...
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How to selectively apply noise in Qiskit simulations?
In Qiskit it is possible to specify noise models to apply to simulations. This allows noise to be defined for certain operations, like measurement or each type of gate.
Is it also possible to change ...
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What is the cost of implementing the Quantum Fourier transform in a classical computer?
What is the cost of implementing the Quantum Fourier transform (QFT) in a classical computer? We know we require at least $\log{n}$ depth quantum circuits to do a QFT in a quantum computer, with $n$ ...
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Quantum Simulation Of Tunneling in Small System
how a single Pauli z-gate (on particular qubit) on the highest order qubit realize square well potential?
How upon acting same gate on the second highest qubit, realize double square well potential?
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Can we simulate quantum many-body systems with IBMQ Experience?
Consider physical systems such as electrons in metals, or Bose-Einstein condensates, or any crystal, which are realised in the real three-dimensional space.
If we want to simulate these systems on a ...
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Error ERROR_TRANSPILING_JOB when trying to simulate the circuit
I'm trying to implement an algorithm (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1128034, basically a simple Grover Algorithm in which the oracle is made of a Fitness operator- some CNOT gates- and 2 adders) ...
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Simulating depth-2 circuits
Quantum depth-2 circuits can be efficiently simulated classically, as shown in Proposition 2 of this paper. The following is a quote of the proof.
After the first time step the quantum state of the ...
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Reversible Circuit Simulation (for classical tests of quantum subroutines)
Problem: trying to implement and test quantum subroutines on quantum simulators I run into multiple challenges:
Quantum simulation is a very hard problem: a very low number of simulated qubits is ...
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Implementing noise model in Quantum simulator
I have noticed that a few papers, such as this one, provide models two for typical noise that a qubit encounters during network transmission:
Λ is the dephasing channel
Λ(ρ) = Pq(ρ) = qρ + (1 − q)ZρZ
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Why doesn't the Gottesman-Knill theorem render quantum computing almost useless?
The Gottesman-Knill theore states (from Nielsen and Chuang)
Suppose a quantum computation is performed which involves only the following elements: state preparations in the computational basis, ...
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How to create an Ising coupling gate with Qiskit?
I'm trying to apply a time evolution algorithm for a physical system I'm trying to simulate on QISkit, however, in order to do that, I need to use the so-called Ising coupling gate:
$I=\begin{pmatrix}...
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Anti-symmetrization on the lattice
Assume, I'm using a system of qubits to simulate a fermionic system.
If I'm using the second-quantized formalism (e.g. orbitals in quantum chemistry), the anti-symmetric nature of the fermionic wave ...
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How to get samples in “bins” from D-Wave's dimod?
at 1, the following code example is available:
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GridQubit in Cirq vs LineQubit
It's perhaps a very silly question, but in what ways is it advantageous to use GridQubit vs LineQubits to develop quantum circuits? Specially to develop ansatz ? Are GridQubits Cirq's way of ...
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How to implement NM Algorithm for Variational Quantum Eigensolver?
First of all: thanks for reading again. I appreciate the feedback I have gotten from this community the past weeks as I started to feel ready to ask questions about quantum computing topics.
I am ...
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Quantum Codes and Plasma Codes for Simulation Applications
I am wondering if anyone in here has heard/read is involved in quantum codes applied to simulate plasmas?
I have read that PPNL is working on that but have not actually seen/found any of their ...
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Illustrating limitations of quantum computing
Can you illustrate why even with a functioning quantum computing energy minimization in an Ising Model simulation, an NP-hard problem, cannot be solved?
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Plotting Bloch sphere in QuTiP
Is there anyone who reproduced the Bloch sphere given in the paper QuTiP: An open-source Python framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems by J. R. Johansson, P. D. Nation, Franco Nori? I am ...
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How to determine the minimum number of experiments needed to compute m-many k-local Pauli expectations?
Say I have an algorithm over N qubits and I want to find the expectation value of an operator $O$ composed of a sum of mterms, each of which is the tensor product of some number of single-qubit Pauli ...
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Is there any online Bloch sphere simulator?
While writing this answer I realized it would be really helpful if I could show the OP a video or .gif of how qubit states in Bloch spheres transform under certain unitary operations. I googled up a ...
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Simulating quantum computers using anyon braiding
I am new to the concept of topological quantum computation (TQC).
Recently I have been thinking about simulating a quantum computer on a classical computer. I know that if I use merely the unitary ...
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Interpreting results from IBM's processor vs. simulator
I am working with a circuit where I use 4 cables, and perform measurements in all of them. Nevertheless, I am only interested in the results from two cables since the other two are ancillas. When I ...
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Why can't a quantum computer strongly simulate itself?
We can strongly simulate a quantum circuit if we can estimate the probability of measuring $|0^n\rangle$, say, at the end to within some fixed relative error.
Now, by measurement, a quantum ...
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What are reasonable noise/dephasing parameters for QuEST to emulate state-of-the-art quantum computers?
The QuEST code allows for simulation of quantum computers taking dephasing and depolarizing noise into account via one and two qubit dephasing and depolarization. What are realistic parameters for ...
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For CNOT gate with control qubit set to 1, the measured state of the second qubit unexpectedly depends on the measurement
I have the following circuit in qiskit. It is a simple CNOT operation with the control qubit set to 1, by running the control qubit through an X-gate.
However, when I measure the 2nd qubit, I get the ...
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Creating .gifs corresponding to Quirk simulations
Craig Gidney's blog has some .gifs which directly link to the corresponding simulation on Quirk. For example:
Grover Search
Delayed Eraser
Is it possible to create these .gifs from within Quirk? Or ...
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Why is there a difference between the simulation results and the actual quantum computer results?
I ran the Grover's Algorithm for 3 Qubits on the IBM Q platform (ibmqx4) and the results of the simulation and the actual computer differ a lot. The screenshots of the circuit and the results are ...
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ProjectQ - In which part of the controlled gate object are the control bits scored
I've been trying to decompose the ProjectQ objects and I could manage to decompose non-controlled gates and daggered gates. But I noticed that
the object of a controlled version of a gate is the ...
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Where does the Xmon simulator from Googles cirq framework its entropy from?
Measurements create entropy as we all know. But computers themselves are deterministic machines. Most devices use processor heat as a source for random number generation as far as I know - which has ...
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How can noise on a device be simulated using measured noise parameters?
The real devices used as backends for Qiskit have calibration data that quantifies errors ($T_1$ and $T_2$, gate fidelities, etc). This can be accessed by, for example
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Introspecting quantum circuit execution on Qiskit Aer simulators
Is there any way to get information from intermediate points in the execution of a quantum circuit. This is not possible on real quantum hardware but would be very useful on the Aer simulators for ...
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Numerical quantum state tomography simulator
On a classical computer, I want to simulate a learning-based quantum state tomography of a qubit. We can formulate it as finding a parametrized unitary evolution that takes the unknown pure state to a ...
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Are there emulators for quantum networks?
Inspired by the question Are there emulators for quantum computers?, I'm curious to know if it's possible to emulate a quantum network on a classic computer. Additionally, is it possible to emulate a ...
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Is it possible to see how CompositeGates are decomposed when simulated using XmonSimulator?
I'm simulating a circuit like this:
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Unitary gate(s) from product of exponent
Often unitary gates are defined as a product of exponentials, with some parameter in the power-term. However, often it is not clear how to construct unitary gates from it, at least not for me that is. ...
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FPGA qubit simulation
This question is regarding the simulation of qubits, using FPGAs. My question is: how does using FPGAs to simulate qubits help us understand or give us an insight into how quantum computers could be ...
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List of known circuits and their expected output
I've written an API which takes in a circuit scaffold, according to some specifications, and outputs the results of simulating the circuit. The circuit constraints are that the measurements are ...
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Deutsch Algorithm on a Quantum Turing Machine
I understood how a Quantum Turing Machine works from this lecture.
It would be great if someone could give an example of how this machine could be used to solve a real problem though, for example, ...
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How would I implement the quantum oracle in Deutsch's algorithm?
I am trying to simulate Deutsch's algorithm (elementary case of Deutsch-Josza algorithm), and I am not entirely sure how I would go about implementing the quantum oracle necessary for the algorithm to ...
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Could we use varying voltage with programmable gates?
One of the benefits I'm reading about qubits is that they can be in an infinite number of states. I'm aware of Holevo's bound (even though I don't fully understand it). However, it made me think of ...
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How to simulate quantum entanglement variation in different quantum gates?
I'm trying to study quantum entanglement variation during quantum computation with 4 qubit systems comprising a variety of quantum gates.
How can I simulate this variation on MATLAB? Is there any ...
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Which QC platform is better to use on HPC cluster?
I have a HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster with NVIDIA GPU and Xeon CPU partitions.
Is this simulator list complete?
Which do you recommended to use on a HPC cluster?
Will it increase the ...
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How does one obtain amplitude information in Q#?
Is it possible to obtain amplitude information (in lexicographic ordering) for a particular qubit register in Q#?
For example, in the following code:
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Classical Memory enough to store states up to 40 qubits quantum system?
As a part of a discussion with my 'classical' friend, he insisted that making a a state machine for calculating the outcome of quantum computer is possible; so, simply calculate the outcomes of (known)...
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Finding the maximum number of Q# simulatable qubits
I'm new to Q# and I was curious on how one would find the number of Q# simulatable qubits for a specific machine. I know Microsoft has an approximation of 16GB ~ 30 qubits but I wanted a better ...
