Fig. 4

A 3-D plot of the cost function (vertical axis) of a 2-qubit unitary as a function of θ and ϕ (horizontal axes). The red line represents the path taken when carrying out gradient descent from a particular starting point

A 3-D plot of the cost function (vertical axis) of a 2-qubit unitary as a function of θ and ϕ (horizontal axes). The red line represents the path taken when carrying out gradient descent from a particular starting point