OpenQASM 3

qiskit.qasm3

Qiskit provides some tools for converting between OpenQASM 3(opens in a new tab) representations of quantum programs, and the QuantumCircuit class. These will continue to evolve as Qiskit’s support for the dynamic-circuit capabilities expressed by OpenQASM 3 increases.

Exporting to OpenQASM 3

The high-level functions are simply dump() and dumps(), which respectively export to a file (given as a filename) and to a Python string.

dump

qiskit.qasm3.dump(circuit, stream, **kwargs)

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Serialize a QuantumCircuit object as an OpenQASM 3 stream to file-like object.

Parameters

circuit (QuantumCircuit) – Circuit to serialize.
stream (TextIOBase) – stream-like object to dump the OpenQASM 3 serialization
**kwargs – Arguments for the Exporter constructor.

dumps

qiskit.qasm3.dumps(circuit, **kwargs)

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Serialize a QuantumCircuit object in an OpenQASM 3 string.

Parameters

circuit (QuantumCircuit) – Circuit to serialize.
**kwargs – Arguments for the Exporter constructor.

Returns

The OpenQASM 3 serialization

Return type

str(opens in a new tab)

Both of these exporter functions are single-use wrappers around the main Exporter class. For more complex exporting needs, including dumping multiple circuits in a single session, it may be more convenient or faster to use the complete interface.

Exporter

class qiskit.qasm3.Exporter(includes=('stdgates.inc', ), basis_gates=('U', ), disable_constants=False, alias_classical_registers=None, allow_aliasing=None, indent=' ', experimental=ExperimentalFeatures.None)

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QASM3 exporter main class.

Parameters

includes (Sequence(opens in a new tab)[str(opens in a new tab)]) – the filenames that should be emitted as includes. These files will be parsed for gates, and any objects dumped from this exporter will use those definitions where possible.
basis_gates (Sequence(opens in a new tab)[str(opens in a new tab)]) – the basic defined gate set of the backend.
disable_constants (bool(opens in a new tab)) – if True, always emit floating-point constants for numeric parameter values. If False (the default), then values close to multiples of OpenQASM 3 constants (pi, euler, and tau) will be emitted in terms of those constants instead, potentially improving accuracy in the output.
alias_classical_registers (bool(opens in a new tab)) –

If True, then bits may be contained in more than one register. If so, the registers will be emitted using “alias” definitions, which might not be well supported by consumers of OpenQASM 3.

See also
Parameter allow_aliasing
A value for allow_aliasing overrides any value given here, and supersedes this parameter.
allow_aliasing (bool(opens in a new tab)) –

If True, then bits may be contained in more than one register. If so, the registers will be emitted using “alias” definitions, which might not be well supported by consumers of OpenQASM 3. Defaults to False or the value of alias_classical_registers.

New in version 0.25.0.
indent (str(opens in a new tab)) – the indentation string to use for each level within an indented block. Can be set to the empty string to disable indentation.
experimental (ExperimentalFeatures) – any experimental features to enable during the export. See ExperimentalFeatures for more details.

dump

dump(circuit, stream)

Convert the circuit to OpenQASM 3, dumping the result to a file or text stream.

dumps

dumps(circuit)

Convert the circuit to OpenQASM 3, returning the result as a string.

All of these interfaces will raise QASM3ExporterError on failure.

QASM3ExporterError

exception qiskit.qasm3.QASM3ExporterError(*message)

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An error raised during running the OpenQASM 3 exporter.

Set the error message.

Experimental features

The OpenQASM 3 language is still evolving as hardware capabilities improve, so there is no final syntax that Qiskit can reliably target. In order to represent the evolving language, we will sometimes release features before formal standardization, which may need to change as the review process in the OpenQASM 3 design committees progresses. By default, the exporters will only support standardised features of the language. To enable these early-release features, use the experimental keyword argument of dump() and dumps(). The available feature flags are:

ExperimentalFeatures

class qiskit.qasm3.ExperimentalFeatures(value)

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Flags for experimental features that the OpenQASM 3 exporter supports.

These are experimental and are more liable to change, because the OpenQASM 3 specification has not formally accepted them yet, so the syntax may not be finalized.

SWITCH_CASE_V1

Default value: 1

Support exporting switch-case statements as proposed by https://github.com/openqasm/openqasm/pull/463(opens in a new tab) at commit bfa787aa3078(opens in a new tab).

If you want to enable multiple experimental features, you should combine the flags using the | operator, such as flag1 | flag2.

For example, to perform an export using the early semantics of switch support:

from qiskit import qasm3, QuantumCircuit, QuantumRegister, ClassicalRegister
 
# Build the circuit
qreg = QuantumRegister(3)
creg = ClassicalRegister(3)
qc = QuantumCircuit(qreg, creg)
with qc.switch(creg) as case:
    with case(0):
        qc.x(0)
    with case(1, 2):
        qc.x(1)
    with case(case.DEFAULT):
        qc.x(2)
 
# Export to an OpenQASM 3 string.
qasm_string = qasm3.dumps(qc, experimental=qasm3.ExperimentalFeatures.SWITCH_CASE_V1)

Note

All features enabled by the experimental flags are naturally transient. If it becomes necessary to remove flags, they will be subject to the standard Qiskit deprecation policy(opens in a new tab). We will leave these experimental flags in place for as long as is reasonable.

However, we cannot guarantee any support windows for consumers of OpenQASM 3 code generated using these experimental flags, if the OpenQASM 3 language specification changes the proposal that the flag is based on. It is possible that any tool you are using to consume OpenQASM 3 code created using these flags may update or remove their support while Qiskit continues to offer the flag. You should not rely on the resultant experimental OpenQASM 3 code for long-term storage of programs.

Importing from OpenQASM 3

Currently only two high-level functions are offered, as Qiskit support for importing from OpenQASM 3 is in its infancy, and the implementation is expected to change significantly. The two functions are load() and loads(), which are direct counterparts of dump() and dumps(), respectively loading a program indirectly from a named file and directly from a given string.

Note

While we are still in the exploratory release period, to use either function, the package qiskit_qasm3_import must be installed. This can be done by installing Qiskit Terra with the qasm3-import extra, such as by:

pip install qiskit-terra[qasm3-import]

We expect that this functionality will eventually be merged into core Terra, and no longer require an optional import, but we do not yet have a timeline for this.

load

qiskit.qasm3.load(filename)

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Load an OpenQASM 3 program from the file filename.

Parameters

filename (str(opens in a new tab)) – the filename to load the program from.

Returns

a circuit representation of the OpenQASM 3 program.

Return type

QuantumCircuit

Raises

QASM3ImporterError – if the OpenQASM 3 file is invalid, or cannot be represented by a QuantumCircuit.

loads

qiskit.qasm3.loads(program)

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Load an OpenQASM 3 program from the given string.

Parameters

program (str(opens in a new tab)) – the OpenQASM 3 program.

Returns

a circuit representation of the OpenQASM 3 program.

Return type

QuantumCircuit

Raises

QASM3ImporterError – if the OpenQASM 3 file is invalid, or cannot be represented by a QuantumCircuit.

Both of these two functions raise QASM3ImporterError on failure.

QASM3ImporterError

exception qiskit.qasm3.QASM3ImporterError(*message)

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An error raised during the OpenQASM 3 importer.

Set the error message.

For example, we can define a quantum program using OpenQASM 3, and use loads() to directly convert it into a QuantumCircuit:

import qiskit.qasm3
 
program = """
    OPENQASM 3.0;
    include "stdgates.inc";
 
    input float[64] a;
    qubit[3] q;
    bit[2] mid;
    bit[3] out;
 
    let aliased = q[0:1];
 
    gate my_gate(a) c, t {
      gphase(a / 2);
      ry(a) c;
      cx c, t;
    }
    gate my_phase(a) c {
      ctrl @ inv @ gphase(a) c;
    }
 
    my_gate(a * 2) aliased[0], q[{1, 2}][0];
    measure q[0] -> mid[0];
    measure q[1] -> mid[1];
 
    while (mid == "00") {
      reset q[0];
      reset q[1];
      my_gate(a) q[0], q[1];
      my_phase(a - pi/2) q[1];
      mid[0] = measure q[0];
      mid[1] = measure q[1];
    }
 
    if (mid[0]) {
      let inner_alias = q[{0, 1}];
      reset inner_alias;
    }
 
    out = measure q;
"""
circuit = qiskit.qasm3.loads(program)
circuit.draw("mpl")

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