Unanswered Questions
211 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Can you programatically check whether a given set of gates is universal?
I am wondering if there is an automated way to determine whether a given set of quantum operations is universal.
More precisely, given a set of 1 and 2 qubit gates, can we write a program to determine ...
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Enforcing a particular layout mapping in Qiskit
I would like to ask how to set a particular layout during transpiling. I guess that the layout can be set by the initial_layout parameter in the transpiler. However,...
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Solving linear system $Ax=b$ with exponential speed-up via binary optimization?
The main disadvantage of HHL algorithm for solving $A|x\rangle = |b\rangle$ is that exponential speed-up is reached only in case we are interested in value $\langle x|M|x\rangle$, where $M$ is a ...
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How to use Warm-Start QAOA in QisKit to solve non-convex QUBO problem?
I have a non-convex QUBO problem that I'd like to solve by warm-starting QAOA with a solution obtained from a continuous relaxation solution obtained by a classical algorithm. The specifics of the ...
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Lowest energy problem with additional constraints
Consider the following minimization problem:
\begin{align}
&\min_{\rho} \mathrm{Tr}[\rho H] \\
\text{such that:}& \\
&Tr[\rho A_i] \leq 0 \ \ \forall A_i, \ i \in \{1,2,3,...\}
\end{align}
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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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Is No Free Lunch Theorem generalizable to Quantum Computation?
The "No Free Lunch Theorem" says: that when averaged across all possible problems, any two strategies have equivalent performance. However it uses Bayesian reasoning to arrive at this ...
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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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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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How to compare Quantum Annealing and Adiabatic Quantum Computing?
I'm still unsure on the difference between adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) and quantum annealing (QA). Please critique these interpretations:
AQC: Define a Hamiltonian with an easy-to-prepare ...
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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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Computing the expectation values of a Hamiltonian constructed from a cost functions in combinatorial optimization
One of the main steps in Hybrid Quantum algorithms for solving Combinatorial Optimization problems is the calculation of the expected value of a hermitian operator $H = \sum{H_i}$ (where $H_i$ are ...
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Forbidden/allowed outputs of a quantum channel
The coherent information of a channel $\mathcal{E}_{A'\rightarrow B}$ is defined as the maximum value obtained by the following function where the maximization is over all input states
$$I_{\rm{coh}}(...
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General mixed integer linear programming problem with quantum computers
I was wondering if anyone had a sample code for running a general MILP problem. I saw some coding for some very specific problems and I thought they were kind of far away from what we needed.
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