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Resources on the energy consumption of IBM quantum computers?

I am seeking information regarding the energy consumption of IBM Quantum Computers, specifically inquiring about the energy requirements associated with individual gate operations. Could you also ...
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Quantum State Tomography Implementation in IBMQ

I am working to understand quantum state tomography, specifically using the algorithm presented in PRL 108, 070502. This paper is referenced in IBMQ implementations of QST, both in old deprecated ...
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Optical quantum computers VS Superconducting quantum computers VS Electron-spin quantum computers

One of the main problems of superconducting quantum computers is that it is necessary to maintain a very low temperature (near absolute zero). Such cooling is very expensive and complex. Why, then, ...
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Bell State 11 not working for parity curve

I am currently writing a script to automate the creation of parity curves for a 2 qubit bell state and then calculate fidelity and proving entanglement from that (inspired by this paper). It was going ...
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How to get the compiled circuits and measurements from a Qiskit Runtime job

I have not been able to find any way to retrieve the compiled circuits and the measurement counts used for a Qiskit Runtime job. This page describes the various error suppression mechanisms available. ...
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Add noise_model when using 'ibmq_qasm_simulator' backend and provider.runtime.run() function

I am trying to test some qiskit code that employs readout-error mitigation using the ibmq_qasm_simulator backend and Qiskit Runtime. I am getting the backend as ...
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What is the best way to use loop statements on a quantum computer?

I am interested in solving a time dependent linear partial differential equation of the form $Ax=b$ which, in classical computing, would amount to looping over solutions of $Ax=b$ where $b$ is updated ...
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Results from looped experiments on IBM Q different than individual experiments

I'm experiencing an issue while using Qiskit where the counts from a job return vastly different values when ran in a loop or as an array of circuits as opposed to single experiments when run by ...
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Where can I find information about the differences between IBM simulator backends?

I'm an Msc student working on a quantum information project (VQEs on 4 qubits). Our group is looking at different IBM simulators on the IBM platform, and have noticed that performance is different for ...
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Apply a single-qubit channel between in between two circuits in Qiskit

Suppose, you have two parts of a circuit in Qiskit, qc1 and qc2 on any number of qubits such that the entire circuit is given by ...
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How is Pauli twirling applied to a noisy gate in practice?

My understanding of Pauli Twirling mainly comes from this paper. Please, correct me if I am wrong in any part of my explanation. General idea of Pauli twirling The idea of Pauli Twirling is the ...
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How does it work QasmSimulator with the option "density matrix"?

I am making some simulations on IBM Quantum Lab and as backend I tried to use QasmSimulator(method = "density_matrix") in order to simulate noise. I wanted to know how this method works in ...
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Implementing Shor's algorithm on IBM Quantum Composer

I'm trying to recreate from this paper in the IBM Quantum Composer. However, this circuit isn't enough understandable for me to do so. I have tried to recreate the above circuit in the composer as ...
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Incorrect probabilities in IBMQ Mid-circuit measurements

I calculated the probabilities for two measurements using mid-circuit measurements feature in IBMQ by following circuit: ...
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Can the ancilla for Qiskit's mcx with mode="recursion" be dirty?

I think their implementation is close to the one from here which does use a dirty ancilla, but I just want to make sure

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