diff --git a/intro.Rmd b/intro.Rmd index ed60962..f487f4e 100644 --- a/intro.Rmd +++ b/intro.Rmd @@ -590,10 +590,9 @@ Can you tell what is the expected value of the observable $Z$ of the ancilla qub -However, we might be interested in the imaginary part of -$\braket{\psi|U|\psi}$. To estimate that, we need to slightly change the +With the method described we can estimate the real part of $\braket{\psi|U|\psi}$ however, being it a complex number, in order to fully describe it we need a procedure to estimate also its imaginary part. To estimate that, we need to slightly change the circuit. After the first Hadamard gate, we apply on the ancilla qubit a -phase gate $S$, which gives to the state $\ket{1}$ a phase of $-i$. To get +phase gate $S$, which gives to the state $\ket{1}$ a phase of $-i$. This operation may be interpreted as a 90 degrees rotation, enabling us to swap the real and imaginary axis to then make a measurement on the imaginary one. To get the intuition behind this, let's recall that the imaginary part of a complex number $z=(a+ib)$ is defined as: $\text{Im}(z)= \frac{z-z^\ast}{2i}=\frac{i(z-z^\ast)}{-2}= \frac{-2b}{-2} =b$, @@ -621,8 +620,7 @@ Note that when taking the conjugate of our state, we changed the sign of $i$. We now have only to convince ourselves that $-i\braket{\psi|U|\psi} + i \braket{\psi|U^\dagger|\psi} = i\braket{\psi|U^\dagger -U|\psi}$ is indeed the real number corresponding to -$2\text{Im}(\braket{\psi| U|\psi})$, and thus the whole equation can be a -probability. +$2\text{Im}(\braket{\psi| U|\psi})$, and thus the probability of state 0 is expressed in function of the imaginary part of $\braket{\psi| U|\psi}$. ::: {.exercise} Can you check if the $S$ gate that we do after the first Hadamard can be performed before the last Hadamard gate instead?