Remove reset from beginning of tomography experiments (backport #1250) (

#1258)

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Co-authored-by: Will Shanks <willshanks@us.ibm.com>

qiskit_experiments/library/tomography/tomography_experiment.py

@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ def circuits(self):
             if prep_element:
                 # Add tomography preparation
                 prep_circ = self._prep_circ_basis.circuit(prep_element, self._prep_physical_qubits)
-                circ.reset(self._prep_indices)
                 circ.compose(prep_circ, self._prep_indices, inplace=True)
                 circ.barrier(*self._prep_indices)
 

releasenotes/notes/remove-tomo-reset-3f21ec4d0dacba91.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+other:
+  - |
+    Removed the reset instruction from the beginning of tomography experiments.
+    Since qubits are usually reset between circuits, this change should have no
+    impact on tomography experiments, but it should allow backends that do not
+    provide a reset instruction to run tomography experiments. `#1250
+    <https://github.com/Qiskit-Extensions/qiskit-experiments/issues/881>`

test/library/tomography/test_process_tomography.py

@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ def test_qpt_conditional_circuit(self, circuit_clbits):
                     fid = qi.process_fidelity(state.value, targets[idx], require_tp=False)
                     self.assertGreater(
                         fid,
-                        0.95,
+                        0.935,
                         msg=f"{fitter} fidelity {fid} is low for conditional outcome {idx}",
                     )
 
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ def test_qpt_conditional_meas(self):
                     prob = state.extra["conditional_probability"]
                     prob_target = 0.5
                     self.assertTrue(
-                        np.isclose(prob, prob_target, atol=1e-2),
+                        np.isclose(prob, prob_target, atol=2e-2),
                         msg=(
                             f"fitter {fitter} probability incorrect for conditional"
                             f" measurement {idx} {outcome} ({prob} != {prob_target})"