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ParameterExpression

class qiskit.circuit.ParameterExpression(symbol_map, expr)

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Bases: object

ParameterExpression class to enable creating expressions of Parameters.

Create a new ParameterExpression.

Not intended to be called directly, but to be instantiated via operations on other Parameter or ParameterExpression objects.

Parameters


Attributes

parameters

Returns a set of the unbound Parameters in the expression.


Methods

abs

abs()

Absolute of a ParameterExpression

arccos

arccos()

Arccos of a ParameterExpression

arcsin

arcsin()

Arcsin of a ParameterExpression

arctan

arctan()

Arctan of a ParameterExpression

assign

assign(parameter, value)

Assign one parameter to a value, which can either be numeric or another parameter expression.

Parameters

Returns

A new expression parameterized by any parameters which were not bound by assignment.

Return type

ParameterExpression

bind

bind(parameter_values, allow_unknown_parameters=False)

Binds the provided set of parameters to their corresponding values.

Parameters

  • parameter_values (dict) – Mapping of Parameter instances to the numeric value to which they will be bound.
  • allow_unknown_parameters (bool) – If False, raises an error if parameter_values contains Parameters in the keys outside those present in the expression. If True, any such parameters are simply ignored.

Raises

  • CircuitError

    • If parameter_values contains Parameters outside those in self. - If a non-numeric value is passed in parameter_values.
  • ZeroDivisionError

    • If binding the provided values requires division by zero.

Returns

A new expression parameterized by any parameters which were not bound by parameter_values.

Return type

ParameterExpression

conjugate

conjugate()

Return the conjugate.

Return type

ParameterExpression

cos

cos()

Cosine of a ParameterExpression

exp

exp()

Exponential of a ParameterExpression

gradient

gradient(param)

Get the derivative of a parameter expression w.r.t. a specified parameter expression.

Parameters

param (Parameter) – Parameter w.r.t. which we want to take the derivative

Returns

ParameterExpression representing the gradient of param_expr w.r.t. param or complex or float number

Return type

ParameterExpression | complex

is_real

is_real()

Return whether the expression is real

log

log()

Logarithm of a ParameterExpression

sign

sign()

Sign of a ParameterExpression

sin

sin()

Sine of a ParameterExpression

subs

subs(parameter_map, allow_unknown_parameters=False)

Returns a new Expression with replacement Parameters.

Parameters

  • parameter_map (dict) – Mapping from Parameters in self to the ParameterExpression instances with which they should be replaced.
  • allow_unknown_parameters (bool) – If False, raises an error if parameter_map contains Parameters in the keys outside those present in the expression. If True, any such parameters are simply ignored.

Raises

CircuitError

  • If parameter_map contains Parameters outside those in self. - If the replacement Parameters in parameter_map would result in a name conflict in the generated expression.

Returns

A new expression with the specified parameters replaced.

Return type

ParameterExpression

sympify

sympify()

Return symbolic expression as a raw Sympy or Symengine object.

Symengine is used preferentially; if both are available, the result will always be a symengine object. Symengine is a separate library but has integration with Sympy.

Note

This is for interoperability only. Qiskit will not accept or work with raw Sympy or Symegine expressions in its parameters, because they do not contain the tracking information used in circuit-parameter binding and assignment.

tan

tan()

Tangent of a ParameterExpression

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