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Apply readout error mitigation to mid-circuit measurement
I'm trying to construct a quantum circuit with 3 mid-circuit measurements, here's an example:
qrz = QuantumRegister(2,'q')
crz = ClassicalRegister(3,'c')
qc = QuantumCircuit(qrz,crz)
for i in range (3):
qc.append(qc1(...),[0,1]). # qc1 is…
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What are spin-coherent states?
Trying to understand the paper; https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.02577.pdf and ran into "spin-coherent" states.
I wonder those are.
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What is the square root of the NOT gate?
I have encountered different matrix of operator "the Square Root of NOT gate".
For example, the matrix is specified here:
$\sqrt {NOT} = \frac{1}{2}\left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}
{1 + i}&{1 - i}\\
{1 - i}&{1 + i}
\end{array}} \right)$
And here a…
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How exactly does Simon's algorithm solve the Simon's problem?
Problem Statement: We are given a $2-1$ function $f:\{0,1\}^{n}\to\{0,1\}^{n}$ such that: there is a secret string $s\in\{0,1\}^{n}$ such that: $f(x)=f(x\oplus s)$. Challenge: find $s$.
Simon's algorithm says:
Set up a random superposition…
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Definition of a NISQ device with respect to qubit counts and error rates
How do we define whether a device is a noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) device with respect to number of qubits and their error rates? Does it make sense to do this? I believe I once saw a definition of a NISQ device as one with on the order…
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In the adiabatic version of Grover's algorithm, how is the Hamiltonian constructed?
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In quantum computation, there is a famous algorithm to search a marked item in an unstructured database called Grover's algorithm. It achieves a quadratic speedup over the best possible classical algorithm.
On the…
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Do global phases matter when a gate is converted into a controlled gate?
Let's say that we have a unitary matrix M such that:
$$
M = e^{i\pi/8}\begin{pmatrix}
1 & 0 \\
0 & e^{i\pi/12} \\
\end{pmatrix}
$$
If we were to apply this unitary matrix to the state $|1\rangle$, we would get:
$$
M|1\rangle\ =\…
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Can we get access to the second-lowest eigenstate?
I'd like to know if there's anything that can be said about whether and when we can efficiently prepare a state corresponding to the second-lowest eigenvalue $|\lambda_1\rangle$ of a given Hamiltonian, or in any other way learn what this energy…
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Requirements for Achieving a Quantum Speedup
We usually talk about the power of a quantum computer by examining the separation between sets of gates that we know we can efficiently simulate on a classical computer (i.e. problems in the class BPP), and universal gate sets which, by definition,…
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Computing $e^x$ on a quantum computer
Does anyone know how to make a quantum circuit to compute exponentials where the exponent can be a fraction? To be more precise, I'm looking for a fixed point quantum arithmetic circuit that does the following:
$$|\vec{x}\rangle|\vec{0}\rangle…
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What's the POVM corresponding to single-qubit state tomography?
Let $\rho$ be a single-qubit state.
A standard way to characterise $\rho$ is to measure the expectation values of the Pauli matrices, that is, to perform projective measurements in the three mutually unbiased bases corresponding to the Pauli…
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Can I find the axis of rotation for any single-qubit gate?
Suppose I have an arbitrary qiskit $U_3$ gate: $U_3(\theta,\phi,\lambda)$. Is there a way I can find which axis the gate is rotating around? In other words, given any real numbers $\theta,\phi,\lambda$, can I find the vector $\hat n = (n_x,n_y,n_z)$…
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If a Hamiltonian is quadratic in the ladder operator, why is its time evolution linear in the ladder operator?
How can one show that $\hat{U}^\dagger\hat{a}\hat{U}$ (with $\hat{U} =e^{-i\hat{H}t}$) involves only linear orders of the ladder operator, when $H$ is the general quadratic Hamiltonian $(\hat{H} = \alpha (\hat{a}^\dagger)^2+ \beta…
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What are examples of zero capacity quantum channels with Choi rank less than $d$?
All the currently known examples of quantum channels with zero quantum capacity are either PPT or anti-degradable. These notions can be conveniently defined in terms of the Choi matrix of the given channel:
A channel is said to be PPT if its Choi…
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How can one argue that the $S$-gate is Clifford while $T$-gate is not?
How can one argue that $S$-gate is Clifford while $T$-gate is not?
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