Curriculum / Quantum Gates Deep Dive

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Quantum Gates Deep Dive

Master single-qubit and multi-qubit gates. Understand rotations, phases, and the math behind every gate in Qiskit.

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What you will learn

  1. 1The Bloch SphereVisualize every single-qubit state as a point on a sphere.Reading+75 XP
  2. 2Pauli Gates: X, Y, ZThe fundamental rotation gates. Understand what they do to qubit states.Code challenge+100 XP
  3. 3Hadamard Gate & SuperpositionThe most important gate in quantum computing. Create and destroy superposition.Code challenge+125 XP
  4. 4Rotation Gates: Rx, Ry, RzParameterized gates for arbitrary qubit rotations.Code challenge+125 XP
  5. 5Phase Gates: S, T, and RzRotate qubits around the Z axis. Understand global vs relative phase.Reading+75 XP
  6. 6CNOT Gate & EntanglementThe primary 2-qubit gate. Build your first entangled pair.Code challenge+150 XP
  7. 7Gate Identities & OptimizationEvery gate is its own inverse (mostly). Learn circuit simplification rules.Reading+75 XP
  8. 8Gate DecompositionsDecompose arbitrary single-qubit gates into standard gate sequences.Reading+75 XP
  9. 9Gate SynthesisBuild the Hadamard gate from RY and RZ rotations and verify it matches.Code challenge+150 XP
  10. 10Universal Gate SetsLearn what makes a gate set universal and why the Clifford+T set is fundamental.Reading+75 XP
  11. 11The Clifford+T Gate SetUse only H, S, T, and CNOT to build complex circuits and understand T-count.Code challenge+175 XP
  12. 12Gates Capstone, 3-Qubit GHZ StateApply everything: build the 3-qubit GHZ state from scratch.Code challenge+200 XP

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