Lesson 059: Pulse-level vs gate-level glossary
Focus
Bias toward repeatable experiment notebooks: circuits, mitigation settings, timestamps. Token Pulse-level vs gate-level glossary:59 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Pulse-level vs gate-level glossary · drill v9 · spin
309113. - Habit: pair each job with shot budget, mitigation profile, and a calibration fingerprint you could paste.
- Guardrail: write one line about where classical cost dominated the timeline.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
VQE rehearsal card
H_SUBSPACE_TAG: VS-59
ANSATZ_BLOCKS: repetitions R=2
CLASSICAL_OPTIM: L-BFGS-B
CONVERGENCE_GUARD: plateau_epochs > 7 ⇒ widen shot budget memo
ENERGY_CI: tracked alongside parameter shift noise
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 59 Bump literals mindset by 22.