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AQCSynthesisPlugin

class AQCSynthesisPlugin

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Bases: qiskit.transpiler.passes.synthesis.plugin.UnitarySynthesisPlugin

An AQC-based Qiskit unitary synthesis plugin.

This plugin is invoked by transpile() when the unitary_synthesis_method parameter is set to "aqc".

This plugin supports customization and additional parameters can be passed to the plugin by passing a dictionary as the unitary_synthesis_plugin_config parameter of the transpile() function.

Supported parameters in the dictionary:

network_layout (str)

Type of network geometry, one of {"sequ", "spin", "cart", "cyclic_spin", "cyclic_line"}. Default value is "spin".

connectivity_type (str)

type of inter-qubit connectivity, {"full", "line", "star"}. Default value is "full".

depth (int)

depth of the CNOT-network, i.e. the number of layers, where each layer consists of a single CNOT-block.

optimizer (Optimizer)

An instance of optimizer to be used in the optimization process.

seed (int)

A random seed.

initial_point (ndarray)

Initial values of angles/parameters to start the optimization process from.


Methods Defined Here

run

AQCSynthesisPlugin.run(unitary, **options)

Run synthesis for the given unitary matrix

Parameters

  • unitary (numpy.ndarray) – The unitary matrix to synthesize to a DAGCircuit object
  • options – The optional kwargs that are passed based on the output the support_* methods on the class. Refer to the documentation for these methods on UnitarySynthesisPlugin to see what the keys and values are.

Returns

The dag circuit representation of the unitary. Alternatively, you can return a tuple of the form (dag, wires) where dag is the dag circuit representation of the circuit representation of the unitary and wires is the mapping wires to use for qiskit.dagcircuit.DAGCircuit.substitute_node_with_dag(). If you return a tuple and wires is None this will behave just as if only a DAGCircuit was returned. Additionally if this returns None no substitution will be made.

Return type

DAGCircuit


Attributes

max_qubits

Maximum number of supported qubits is 14.

min_qubits

Minimum number of supported qubits is 3.

supported_bases

The plugin does not support bases for synthesis.

supports_basis_gates

The plugin does not support basis gates and by default it synthesizes a circuit using ["rx", "ry", "rz", "cx"] gate basis.

supports_coupling_map

The plugin does not support coupling maps.

supports_gate_errors

The plugin does not support gate errors.

supports_gate_lengths

The plugin does not support gate lengths.

supports_natural_direction

The plugin does not support natural direction, it assumes bidirectional two qubit gates.

supports_pulse_optimize

The plugin does not support optimization of pulses.

supports_target

Whether the plugin supports taking target as an option

target will be a Target object representing the target device for the output of the synthesis pass.

By default this will be False since the plugin interface predates the Target class. If a plugin returns True for this attribute, it is expected that the plugin will use the Target instead of the values passed if any of supports_gate_lengths, supports_gate_errors, supports_coupling_map, and supports_basis_gates are set (although ideally all those parameters should contain duplicate information).

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