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What's the role of mixer in QAOA?

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What is the difference between amplitude amplification, amplitude estimation, and phase estimation?

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What is the "no fast-forwarding theorem"?

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Oblivious Amplitude Amplification & Eigenstate decomposition

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Why does Hamiltonian simulation seek to find the energy minimum, if eigenvalues of unitaries are always unimodular?

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What is a simple example showing the issues of not doing the "uncomputation" step?

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Why does the bit flip channel produce a uniform contraction of $1-2p$?

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What are spin-coherent states?

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How does the performance of QAOA and VQE compare to Grover's?

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Variational Quantum Linear Solver (Hadamard test): circuit question

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Implementing "computable phase shifts" using T Toffoli ( problem 4.1 from Nielsen and Chuang's)

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In block encoding, how to determine the dimension of the elements from $\alpha(⟨0|^{\otimes a}\otimes I)U(|0〉^{\otimes a}\otimes|\psi〉)=A|\psi〉$?

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Why are all the eigenvalues of a "Hermitian block-encoding" equal to $\pm1$?

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Normalization question in VQLS

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What is the relation between Hadamard transformation and QFT?

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Manipulating the amplitude of state based on the state information

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How does a Hadamard discrete-time quantum walk result in a skewed distribution?

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Why does the trace of density operators need to be one?

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Initial state preparation for Hadamard test

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What's the importance of a relationship with Gibbs state in the context of VarQITE or variational algorithms?

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In the context of block-encoding, what does $|0\rangle\otimes I$ represent?

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What is entanglement barrier?

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References about deriving the complexity of a given algorithm

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Quantum Boltzmann Machine and Gibbs state

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Wick rotation of the Schrödinger equation

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Trace calculation from the basis to |+> and |-> states

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In the amplitude amplification algorithm in Nielsen and Chuang's book, why is the error probability $M/N$?