qiskit.aqua.operators.list_ops.ComposedOp
class ComposedOp(oplist, coeff=1.0, abelian=False)
A class for lazily representing compositions of Operators. Often Operators cannot be efficiently composed with one another, but may be manipulated further so that they can be composed later. This class holds logic to indicate that the Operators in oplist are meant to be composed, and therefore if they reach a point in which they can be, such as after conversion to QuantumCircuits or matrices, they can be reduced by composition.
Parameters
- oplist (
List[OperatorBase]) – The Operators being composed. - coeff (
Union[int,float,complex,ParameterExpression]) – A coefficient multiplying the operator - abelian (
bool) – Indicates whether the Operators inoplistare known to mutually commute.
__init__
__init__(oplist, coeff=1.0, abelian=False)
Parameters
- oplist (
List[OperatorBase]) – The Operators being composed. - coeff (
Union[int,float,complex,ParameterExpression]) – A coefficient multiplying the operator - abelian (
bool) – Indicates whether the Operators inoplistare known to mutually commute.
Methods
__init__(oplist[, coeff, abelian]) | type oplistList[OperatorBase] |
add(other) | Return Operator addition of self and other, overloaded by +. |
adjoint() | Return a new Operator equal to the Operator’s adjoint (conjugate transpose), overloaded by ~. |
assign_parameters(param_dict) | Binds scalar values to any Terra Parameters in the coefficients or primitives of the Operator, or substitutes one Parameter for another. |
bind_parameters(param_dict) | Same as assign_parameters, but maintained for consistency with QuantumCircuit in Terra (which has both assign_parameters and bind_parameters). |
compose(other[, permutation, front]) | Return Operator Composition between self and other (linear algebra-style: A@B(x) = A(B(x))), overloaded by @. |
equals(other) | Evaluate Equality between Operators, overloaded by ==. |
eval([front]) | Evaluate the Operator’s underlying function, either on a binary string or another Operator. |
exp_i() | Return an OperatorBase equivalent to an exponentiation of self * -i, e^(-i*op). |
log_i([massive]) | Return a MatrixOp equivalent to log(H)/-i for this operator H. |
mul(scalar) | Returns the scalar multiplication of the Operator, overloaded by *, including support for Terra’s Parameters, which can be bound to values later (via bind_parameters). |
neg() | Return the Operator’s negation, effectively just multiplying by -1.0, overloaded by -. |
non_distributive_reduce() | Reduce without attempting to expand all distributive compositions. |
permute(permutation) | Permute the qubits of the operator. |
power(exponent) | Return Operator composed with self multiple times, overloaded by **. |
primitive_strings() | Return a set of strings describing the primitives contained in the Operator. |
reduce() | Try collapsing the Operator structure, usually after some type of conversion, e.g. |
tensor(other) | Return tensor product between self and other, overloaded by ^. |
tensorpower(other) | Return tensor product with self multiple times, overloaded by ^. |
to_circuit() | Returns the quantum circuit, representing the composed operator. |
to_circuit_op() | Returns an equivalent Operator composed of only QuantumCircuit-based primitives, such as CircuitOp and CircuitStateFn. |
to_legacy_op([massive]) | Attempt to return the Legacy Operator representation of the Operator. |
to_matrix([massive]) | Return NumPy representation of the Operator. |
to_matrix_op([massive]) | Returns an equivalent Operator composed of only NumPy-based primitives, such as MatrixOp and VectorStateFn. |
to_pauli_op([massive]) | Returns an equivalent Operator composed of only Pauli-based primitives, such as PauliOp. |
to_spmatrix() | Returns SciPy sparse matrix representation of the Operator. |
traverse(convert_fn[, coeff]) | Apply the convert_fn to each node in the oplist. |
Attributes
INDENTATION | |
abelian | Whether the Operators in oplist are known to commute with one another. |
coeff | The scalar coefficient multiplying the Operator. |
combo_fn | The function defining how to combine oplist (or Numbers, or NumPy arrays) to produce the Operator’s underlying function. |
distributive | Indicates whether the ListOp or subclass is distributive under composition. |
grad_combo_fn | The gradient of combo_fn. |
num_qubits | The number of qubits over which the Operator is defined. |
oplist | The list of OperatorBases defining the underlying function of this Operator. |
parameters | Return a set of Parameter objects contained in the Operator. |
abelian
Whether the Operators in oplist are known to commute with one another.
Return type
bool
Returns
A bool indicating whether the oplist is Abelian.
add
add(other)
Return Operator addition of self and other, overloaded by +.
Parameters
other (OperatorBase) – An OperatorBase with the same number of qubits as self, and in the same ‘Operator’, ‘State function’, or ‘Measurement’ category as self (i.e. the same type of underlying function).
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
An OperatorBase equivalent to the sum of self and other.
adjoint
adjoint()
Return a new Operator equal to the Operator’s adjoint (conjugate transpose), overloaded by ~. For StateFns, this also turns the StateFn into a measurement.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
An OperatorBase equivalent to the adjoint of self.
assign_parameters
assign_parameters(param_dict)
Binds scalar values to any Terra Parameters in the coefficients or primitives of the Operator, or substitutes one Parameter for another. This method differs from Terra’s assign_parameters in that it also supports lists of values to assign for a give Parameter, in which case self will be copied for each parameterization in the binding list(s), and all the copies will be returned in an OpList. If lists of parameterizations are used, every Parameter in the param_dict must have the same length list of parameterizations.
Parameters
param_dict (dict) – The dictionary of Parameters to replace, and values or lists of values by which to replace them.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
The OperatorBase with the Parameters in self replaced by the values or Parameters in param_dict. If param_dict contains parameterization lists, this OperatorBase is an OpList.
bind_parameters
bind_parameters(param_dict)
Same as assign_parameters, but maintained for consistency with QuantumCircuit in Terra (which has both assign_parameters and bind_parameters).
Return type
OperatorBase
coeff
The scalar coefficient multiplying the Operator.
Return type
Union[int, float, complex, ParameterExpression]
Returns
The coefficient.
combo_fn
The function defining how to combine oplist (or Numbers, or NumPy arrays) to produce the Operator’s underlying function. For example, SummedOp’s combination function is to add all of the Operators in oplist.
Return type
Callable
Returns
The combination function.
compose
compose(other, permutation=None, front=False)
Return Operator Composition between self and other (linear algebra-style: A@B(x) = A(B(x))), overloaded by @.
Note: You must be conscious of Quantum Circuit vs. Linear Algebra ordering conventions. Meaning, X.compose(Y) produces an X∘Y on qubit 0, but would produce a QuantumCircuit which looks like
-[Y]-[X]-
Because Terra prints circuits with the initial state at the left side of the circuit.
Parameters
- other (
OperatorBase) – TheOperatorBasewith which to compose self. - permutation (
Optional[List[int]]) –List[int]which defines permutation on other operator. - front (
bool) – If front==True, returnother.compose(self).
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
An OperatorBase equivalent to the function composition of self and other.
distributive
Indicates whether the ListOp or subclass is distributive under composition. ListOp and SummedOp are, meaning that (opv @ op) = (opv[0] @ op + opv[1] @ op) (using plus for SummedOp, list for ListOp, etc.), while ComposedOp and TensoredOp do not behave this way.
Return type
bool
Returns
A bool indicating whether the ListOp is distributive under composition.
equals
equals(other)
Evaluate Equality between Operators, overloaded by ==. Only returns True if self and other are of the same representation (e.g. a DictStateFn and CircuitStateFn will never be equal, even if their vector representations are equal), their underlying primitives are equal (this means for ListOps, OperatorStateFns, or EvolvedOps the equality is evaluated recursively downwards), and their coefficients are equal.
Parameters
other (OperatorBase) – The OperatorBase to compare to self.
Return type
bool
Returns
A bool equal to the equality of self and other.
eval
eval(front=None)
Evaluate the Operator’s underlying function, either on a binary string or another Operator. A square binary Operator can be defined as a function taking a binary function to another binary function. This method returns the value of that function for a given StateFn or binary string. For example, op.eval('0110').eval('1110') can be seen as querying the Operator’s matrix representation by row 6 and column 14, and will return the complex value at those “indices.” Similarly for a StateFn, op.eval('1011') will return the complex value at row 11 of the vector representation of the StateFn, as all StateFns are defined to be evaluated from Zero implicitly (i.e. it is as if .eval('0000') is already called implicitly to always “indexing” from column 0).
ListOp’s eval recursively evaluates each Operator in oplist, and combines the results using the recombination function combo_fn.
Parameters
front (Union[str, dict, ndarray, OperatorBase, None]) – The bitstring, dict of bitstrings (with values being coefficients), or StateFn to evaluated by the Operator’s underlying function.
Return type
Union[OperatorBase, float, complex]
Returns
The output of the oplist Operators’ evaluation function, combined with the combo_fn. If either self or front contain proper ListOps (not ListOp subclasses), the result is an n-dimensional list of complex or StateFn results, resulting from the recursive evaluation by each OperatorBase in the ListOps.
Raises
- NotImplementedError – Raised if called for a subclass which is not distributive.
- TypeError – Operators with mixed hierarchies, such as a ListOp containing both PrimitiveOps and ListOps, are not supported.
- NotImplementedError – Attempting to call ListOp’s eval from a non-distributive subclass.
exp_i
exp_i()
Return an OperatorBase equivalent to an exponentiation of self * -i, e^(-i*op).
Return type
OperatorBase
grad_combo_fn
The gradient of combo_fn.
Return type
Optional[Callable]
log_i
log_i(massive=False)
Return a MatrixOp equivalent to log(H)/-i for this operator H. This function is the effective inverse of exp_i, equivalent to finding the Hermitian Operator which produces self when exponentiated. For proper ListOps, applies log_i to all ops in oplist.
Return type
OperatorBase
mul
mul(scalar)
Returns the scalar multiplication of the Operator, overloaded by *, including support for Terra’s Parameters, which can be bound to values later (via bind_parameters).
Parameters
scalar (Union[int, float, complex, ParameterExpression]) – The real or complex scalar by which to multiply the Operator, or the ParameterExpression to serve as a placeholder for a scalar factor.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
An OperatorBase equivalent to product of self and scalar.
neg
neg()
Return the Operator’s negation, effectively just multiplying by -1.0, overloaded by -.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
An OperatorBase equivalent to the negation of self.
non_distributive_reduce
non_distributive_reduce()
Reduce without attempting to expand all distributive compositions.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
The reduced Operator.
num_qubits
The number of qubits over which the Operator is defined. If op.num_qubits == 5, then op.eval('1' * 5) will be valid, but op.eval('11') will not.
Return type
int
Returns
The number of qubits accepted by the Operator’s underlying function.
oplist
The list of OperatorBases defining the underlying function of this Operator.
Return type
List[OperatorBase]
Returns
The Operators defining the ListOp
parameters
Return a set of Parameter objects contained in the Operator.
permute
permute(permutation)
Permute the qubits of the operator.
Parameters
permutation (List[int]) – A list defining where each qubit should be permuted. The qubit at index j should be permuted to position permutation[j].
Return type
ListOp
Returns
A new ListOp representing the permuted operator.
Raises
AquaError – if indices do not define a new index for each qubit.
power
power(exponent)
Return Operator composed with self multiple times, overloaded by **.
Parameters
exponent (int) – The int number of times to compose self with itself.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
An OperatorBase equivalent to self composed with itself exponent times.
primitive_strings
primitive_strings()
Return a set of strings describing the primitives contained in the Operator. For example, {'QuantumCircuit', 'Pauli'}. For hierarchical Operators, such as ListOps, this can help illuminate the primitives represented in the various recursive levels, and therefore which conversions can be applied.
Return type
Set[str]
Returns
A set of strings describing the primitives contained within the Operator.
reduce
reduce()
Try collapsing the Operator structure, usually after some type of conversion, e.g. trying to add Operators in a SummedOp or delete needless IGates in a CircuitOp. If no reduction is available, just returns self.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
The reduced OperatorBase.
tensor
tensor(other)
Return tensor product between self and other, overloaded by ^. Note: You must be conscious of Qiskit’s big-endian bit printing convention. Meaning, X.tensor(Y) produces an X on qubit 0 and an Y on qubit 1, or X⨂Y, but would produce a QuantumCircuit which looks like
-[Y]- -[X]-
Because Terra prints circuits and results with qubit 0 at the end of the string or circuit.
Parameters
other (OperatorBase) – The OperatorBase to tensor product with self.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
An OperatorBase equivalent to the tensor product of self and other.
tensorpower
tensorpower(other)
Return tensor product with self multiple times, overloaded by ^.
Parameters
other (int) – The int number of times to tensor product self with itself via tensorpower.
Return type
Union[OperatorBase, int]
Returns
An OperatorBase equivalent to the tensorpower of self by other.
to_circuit
to_circuit()
Returns the quantum circuit, representing the composed operator.
Return type
QuantumCircuit
Returns
The circuit representation of the composed operator.
Raises
AquaError – for operators where a single underlying circuit can not be obtained.
to_circuit_op
to_circuit_op()
Returns an equivalent Operator composed of only QuantumCircuit-based primitives, such as CircuitOp and CircuitStateFn.
Return type
OperatorBase
to_legacy_op
to_legacy_op(massive=False)
Attempt to return the Legacy Operator representation of the Operator. If self is a SummedOp of PauliOps, will attempt to convert to WeightedPauliOperator, and otherwise will simply convert to MatrixOp and then to MatrixOperator. The Legacy Operators cannot represent StateFns or proper ListOps (meaning not one of the ListOp subclasses), so an error will be thrown if this method is called on such an Operator. Also, Legacy Operators cannot represent unbound Parameter coeffs, so an error will be thrown if any are present in self.
Warn if more than 16 qubits to force having to set massive=True if such a large vector is desired.
Return type
LegacyBaseOperator
Returns
The LegacyBaseOperator representing this Operator.
Raises
TypeError – self is an Operator which cannot be represented by a LegacyBaseOperator, such as StateFn, proper (non-subclass) ListOp, or an Operator with an unbound coeff Parameter.
to_matrix
to_matrix(massive=False)
Return NumPy representation of the Operator. Represents the evaluation of the Operator’s underlying function on every combination of basis binary strings. Warn if more than 16 qubits to force having to set massive=True if such a large vector is desired.
Return type
ndarray
Returns
The NumPy ndarray equivalent to this Operator.
to_matrix_op
to_matrix_op(massive=False)
Returns an equivalent Operator composed of only NumPy-based primitives, such as MatrixOp and VectorStateFn.
Return type
OperatorBase
to_pauli_op
to_pauli_op(massive=False)
Returns an equivalent Operator composed of only Pauli-based primitives, such as PauliOp.
Return type
OperatorBase
to_spmatrix
to_spmatrix()
Returns SciPy sparse matrix representation of the Operator.
Return type
Union[spmatrix, List[spmatrix]]
Returns
CSR sparse matrix representation of the Operator, or List thereof.
traverse
traverse(convert_fn, coeff=None)
Apply the convert_fn to each node in the oplist.
Parameters
- convert_fn (
Callable) – The function to apply to the internal OperatorBase. - coeff (
Union[int,float,complex,ParameterExpression,None]) – A coefficient to multiply by after applying convert_fn. If it is None, self.coeff is used instead.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
The converted ListOp.