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Qiskit is an open source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of pulses, circuits and application modules. If appropriate, also use the [programming] tag. Please include the version of …
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For questions regarding usage, performance, implementation, application or theory related to quantum gates.
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Questions about or related to quantum states. Consider using the density-matrix tag when relevant.
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For any questions whose answer is expected to require code or programming notions. For questions about a specific framework (e.g. qiskit or cirq) please also include a more specific tag. If your quest…
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For questions about quantum algorithms, that is, sequences of quantum gates, operations, and measurements, whose purpose which achieve some goal. Standard examples are Shor's and Grover's algorithms.
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Quantum error correction (QEC) is a set of techniques used in quantum computing to protect quantum information from errors due to decoherence and other quantum noise. Quantum error correction is theor…
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For questions about the principle and application of quantum entanglement. It is a physical phenomenon which occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximit…
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For questions related to measurement and its effects as relevant to quantum computation and quantum information.
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For questions about the construction of complex circuits using elementary quantum gates.
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Applies to questions of primarily educational value - styled in the format similar to that found in textbook exercises. This tag should be applied to questions that are (1) stated in the form of an ex…
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For questions about vector spaces of all dimensions and linear transformations between them, including systems of linear equations, bases, dimensions, subspaces, matrices, determinants, traces, eigenv…
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for questions about IBM's Quantum Service - Circuit Composer & Quantum Lab. DO NOT use this for questions about general Qiskit issues (use [qiskit] for that).
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a model in which a computation is a sequence of quantum gates, which are reversible transformations on an n-qubit register (the quantum-mechanical analog of an n-bit register)
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For questions about quantum channels or more generally quantum maps and the related formalism. For questions about unitary operations, please use quantum-gate instead.
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For questions about density matrices and related concepts and ideas, e.g. procedures for computing properties of quantum states from their density matrices.
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Grover's search algorithm is an algorithm that can perform a search in the order of square root of the input size. This is a provable speed up over the best classical algorithm, which requires a time …
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For questions about physical implementations of a quantum algorithm or other quantum information protocol. DO NOT use for questions about simulation or emulation of quantum computers, or cloud-based q…
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For questions about simulating either quantum computers or simulating things on quantum computers.
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A stabilizer quantum error-correcting code appends ancilla qubits to qubits that we want to protect. A unitary encoding circuit rotates the global state into a subspace of a larger Hilbert space. This…
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For questions about exercises or passages from the popular quantum computing textbook *Quantum Computation and Quantum Information* by Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang.
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For questions that involve a request for resources to learn anything related to quantum computing or quantum information.
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For questions about Stim, the open source tool for high-performance simulation of quantum stabilizer circuits.
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For questions regarding complexity analysis of quantum algorithms and comparisons with complexities of classical algorithms.
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Hamiltonian simulation is a class of algorithms that, given a Hermitian matrix A, output a quantum circuit implementing an approximation to the unitary exp[iAt].
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used for questions connected with information theory in classical and/or quantum sense.
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For questions about the Variational Quantum Eigensolver, a quantum/classical hybrid algorithm that can be used to find eigenvalues of a (often large) matrix H. When this algorithm is used in quantum s…
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For questions about Pauli matrices in general or Pauli gates in particular, as relevant to quantum computing and/or quantum information theory. The Pauli matrices are a set of three 2 × 2 complex matr…
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The surfaces codes are a family of quantum error correcting codes defined on a 2D lattice of qubits. Each code within this family has stabilizers that are defined equivalently in the bulk, but they di…
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For questions about different types of noise a quantum computer (or qubits) may experience; how this affects the outcome of the computation; how to reduce a specific type of noise on a specific implem…
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For questions related to the unitarity (unitary evolution) of quantum systems, as applicable to quantum computing or quantum information.
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For questions about finding (short) gate sequences to implement a specific unitary operation, for example decomposing a complicated multi-qubit gate into a sequence of basic gates. It might apply to o…
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For questions concerning how to improve quantum computers on different aspects like performance, efficiency or fault-tolerance.
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Shor's algorithm, named after American mathematician Peter Shor, is a quantum algorithm for integer factorization, formulated in 1994. Informally, it solves the following problem: given an integer N, …
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For questions about the usage of, origin of or reasons for specific notation used in the context of quantum computing.
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For questions related to the Bloch sphere. In quantum mechanics, the Bloch sphere is a geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum mechanical system (qubit), named after …
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For questions about the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), first introduced in Farhi, Goldstone, Gutmann 2014 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4028).
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