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What is a gate-level circuit used in the 2022 Jafferis et al. experiment on Sycamore?

A recently published Nature paper of Jafferis et al. describes an experiment with a handful of qubits performed on Google's Sycamore processor to explore the SYK model in the context of AdS/CFT and ...
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What do "$i$-th basic network", "quantum multiplexers" and "quantum parallelism" mean in this context? How are they beneficial?

I have been reading the paper A quantum-implementable neural network model (Chen et al., 2017) for a few days now, but failed to understand how exactly their algorithm offers a speedup over the ...
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How are Toffoli and a basis-changing single-qubit gate universal?

The Toffoli and Hadamard gates are universal for quantum computing: you can approximate any unitary up to arbitrary precision with a circuit built from these two gates. This is proved for example by ...
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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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Writing circuits in Qiskit using only Clifford and T gates

Is there a way in Qiskit to write my circuit using only Clifford and T gates (CX, S, H, T and I think also $S^\dagger$ and $T^\dagger$)? With the function compile (with aer simulator) it gives me some ...
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Is VQA quicker than classical machine learning?

Variational Quantum Algorithm (VQA) is a kind of quantum algorithm corresponding to classical machine learning. Unlike the square speed up of Grover's algorithm, the circuit in VQA does not seem to ...
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Calculating gradient of a gate using Parameter shift rule

I've been following this website to check out how parameter-shift works for calculation of gradients for backpropagation in Variational Quantum Machine Learning Circuits Most of it made makes sense ...
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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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Is circuit cutting equivalent in anyway to quantum teleportation?

I've been introduced recently to circuit cutting, and after seeing the 4 orthogonal measurements with their 8 corresponding initializations but no initial transfer of classical info, the first thing ...
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What is the computational complexity of decomposing operators in terms of quantum gates?

I have recently worked on a problem involving a rather large Hamiltonian, which I wrote some Python code for its generation following the method in this paper. No when I used qiskits ...
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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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Is there a convention in quantum circuit diagrams for specific quantum measurements?

Is there a convention in quantum circuit diagrams for specific quantum measurements? For example, how could one express the measurement $|0\rangle \langle 0|$ in a circuit diagram?
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What exactly is the "quantum singular value decomposition"?

I know what is singular value decomposition, meaning given a matrix and write it as multiplication three different matrices, and middle matrix being diagonal and entries are singular values. So, what ...
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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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