Hands-on lab · 2 steps
Amplitude damping, T1 decay and engineered dephasing
Compute the energy-relaxation probability of an idling qubit and its surviving excited population, then build a one-qubit noisy circuit that prepares the mixed state from with one gate and noise channels simulated on the density-matrix backend.
Step 1: Energy relaxation of an idling qubit
A qubit is prepared in and then idles for . Its energy-relaxation time is and there is no additional pure dephasing (). Over the idle period the qubit undergoes the amplitude-damping channel
Enter the damping parameter of this channel and the probability of measuring after the idle period. Each value is graded with absolute tolerance ; exact expressions such as 1-exp(-0.2) are accepted (and then compared to ).
Step 2: Engineer a dephased state with one gate and noise channels
Starting from , build a one-qubit circuit whose output is the mixed state
You may use one gate, either or , together with any number of noise channels from amplitude damping, phase damping and depolarizing (the gate limit counts gates only, not channels). The circuit is simulated exactly on the density-matrix backend, with the engine conventions of the lesson: phase damping , amplitude damping , , and depolarizing . In the circuit script a channel is a statement with the qubit first and then its parameter, for example , or ; gates are written as or , and statements are separated by semicolons or new lines. The grader requires the trace distance . Bit flip, phase flip and thermal relaxation are not available in this step.