NumPyMinimumEigensolver
class NumPyMinimumEigensolver(filter_criterion=None)
Bases: qiskit.algorithms.minimum_eigensolvers.minimum_eigensolver.MinimumEigensolver
The NumPy minimum eigensolver algorithm.
Parameters
filter_criterion (FilterType | None) – Callable that allows to filter eigenvalues/eigenstates. The minimum eigensolver is only searching over feasible states and returns an eigenstate that has the smallest eigenvalue among feasible states. The callable has the signature filter(eigenstate, eigenvalue, aux_values)
and must return a boolean to indicate whether to consider this value or not. If there is no feasible element, the result can even be empty.
Methods
compute_minimum_eigenvalue
NumPyMinimumEigensolver.compute_minimum_eigenvalue(operator, aux_operators=None)
Computes the minimum eigenvalue. The operator
and aux_operators
are supplied here. While an operator
is required by algorithms, aux_operators
are optional.
Parameters
- operator (BaseOperator | PauliSumOp) – Qubit operator of the observable.
- aux_operators (ListOrDict[BaseOperator | PauliSumOp] | None) – Optional list of auxiliary operators to be evaluated with the parameters of the minimum eigenvalue main result and their expectation values returned. For instance in chemistry these can be dipole operators and total particle count operators, so we can get values for these at the ground state.
Return type
Returns
A minimum eigensolver result.
supports_aux_operators
classmethod NumPyMinimumEigensolver.supports_aux_operators()
Whether computing the expectation value of auxiliary operators is supported.
If the minimum eigensolver computes an eigenvalue of the main operator
then it can compute the expectation value of the aux_operators
for that state. Otherwise they will be ignored.
Return type
bool
Returns
True if aux_operator expectations can be evaluated, False otherwise
Attributes
filter_criterion
Returns the criterion for filtering eigenstates/eigenvalues.
Return type
FilterType | None