ComposedOp
class ComposedOp(oplist, coeff=1.0, abelian=False)
Bases: qiskit.opflow.list_ops.list_op.ListOp
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[complex,ParameterExpression]) – A coefficient multiplying the operator - abelian (
bool) – Indicates whether the Operators inoplistare known to mutually commute.
Methods Defined Here
adjoint
ComposedOp.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
ComposedOp
Returns
An OperatorBase equivalent to the adjoint of self.
compose
ComposedOp.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.
eval
ComposedOp.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, Statevector, None]) – The bitstring, dict of bitstrings (with values being coefficients), or StateFn to evaluated by the Operator’s underlying function.
Return type
Union[OperatorBase, 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.
non_distributive_reduce
ComposedOp.non_distributive_reduce()
Reduce without attempting to expand all distributive compositions.
Return type
OperatorBase
Returns
The reduced Operator.
reduce
ComposedOp.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.
to_circuit
ComposedOp.to_circuit()
Returns the quantum circuit, representing the composed operator.
Return type
QuantumCircuit
Returns
The circuit representation of the composed operator.
Raises
OpflowError – for operators where a single underlying circuit can not be obtained.
Attributes
INDENTATION
Default value: ' '
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.
coeff
The scalar coefficient multiplying the Operator.
Return type
Union[complex, ParameterExpression]
Returns
The coefficient.
coeffs
Return a list of the coefficients of the operators listed. Raises exception for nested Listops.
Return type
List[Union[complex, ParameterExpression]]
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.
distributive
Return type
bool
grad_combo_fn
The gradient of combo_fn.
Return type
Optional[Callable]
instance_id
Return the unique instance id.
Return type
int
num_qubits
Return type
int
oplist
The list of OperatorBases defining the underlying function of this Operator.
Return type
List[OperatorBase]
Returns
The Operators defining the ListOp
parameters
settings
Return settings.
Return type
Dict