First we load the QuantumChemistry package
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Next we load the QuantumComputing subpackage
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We can initialize a state of 4 qubits on our simulated quantum computer with the InitialState command
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The initial wave function has each of its 4 qubits in the lower state of the qubit, denoted by 0. To illustrate preparing a state on the quantum computer, let's use a product of gates (unitary transformations), known as a circuit, to prepare a Schrodinger cat state in which the state of all qubits down becomes entangled with the state of all qubits up. In QCT the circuit is readily assemble as a Maple list of equations. The left side of an equation indicates the qubit or qubits on which the gate acts and the right side provides the gate itself.
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To prepare the new state, we act on the initial state state0 with our circuit
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The new state entangles a state of 4 "down" qubits with a state of 4 "up" qubits. Like Schrodinger's cat, our state is half up and half down.
The probability of being "up" in each qubit is 1/2 as we can see from the QubitPopulations command
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