"""
Build quantum teleportation circuit using three quantum bits
and 1 classical bit. The main idea is to send one qubit from
Alice to Bob using the entanglement properties. This experiment
run in IBM Q simulator with 1000 shots.
.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation
https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-algorithms/teleportation.html
"""
import numpy as np
import qiskit
from qiskit import Aer, ClassicalRegister, QuantumCircuit, QuantumRegister, execute
def quantum_teleportation(
theta: float = np.pi / 2, phi: float = np.pi / 2, lam: float = np.pi / 2
) -> qiskit.result.counts.Counts:
"""
# >>> quantum_teleportation()
#{'00': 500, '11': 500} # ideally
# ┌─────────────────┐ ┌───┐
#qr_0: ┤ U(π/2,π/2,π/2) ├───────■──┤ H ├─■─────────
# └──────┬───┬──────┘ ┌─┴─┐└───┘ │
#qr_1: ───────┤ H ├─────────■──┤ X ├──────┼───■─────
# └───┘ ┌─┴─┐└───┘ │ ┌─┴─┐┌─┐
#qr_2: ───────────────────┤ X ├───────────■─┤ X ├┤M├
# └───┘ └───┘└╥┘
#cr: 1/═══════════════════════════════════════════╩═
Args:
theta (float): Single qubit rotation U Gate theta parameter. Default to np.pi/2
phi (float): Single qubit rotation U Gate phi parameter. Default to np.pi/2
lam (float): Single qubit rotation U Gate lam parameter. Default to np.pi/2
Returns:
qiskit.result.counts.Counts: Teleported qubit counts.
"""
qr = QuantumRegister(3, "qr")
cr = ClassicalRegister(1, "cr")
quantum_circuit = QuantumCircuit(qr, cr)
quantum_circuit.u(theta, phi, lam, 0)
quantum_circuit.h(1)
quantum_circuit.cx(
1, 2
)
quantum_circuit.cx(0, 1)
quantum_circuit.h(0)
quantum_circuit.cz(0, 2)
quantum_circuit.cx(1, 2)
quantum_circuit.measure([2], [0])
backend = Aer.get_backend("aer_simulator")
job = execute(quantum_circuit, backend, shots=1000)
return job.result().get_counts(quantum_circuit)
if __name__ == "__main__":
print(
"Total count for teleported state is: "
f"{quantum_teleportation(np.pi/2, np.pi/2, np.pi/2)}"
)