AbelianGrouper
class qiskit.opflow.converters.AbelianGrouper(traverse=True)
Bases: ConverterBase
Deprecated: The AbelianGrouper converts SummedOps into a sum of Abelian sums.
Meaning, it will traverse the Operator, and when it finds a SummedOp, it will evaluate which of the summed sub-Operators commute with one another. It will then convert each of the groups of commuting Operators into their own SummedOps, and return the sum-of-commuting-SummedOps. This is particularly useful for cases where mutually commuting groups can be handled similarly, as in the case of Pauli Expectations, where commuting Paulis have the same diagonalizing circuit rotation, or Pauli Evolutions, where commuting Paulis can be diagonalized together.
The class qiskit.opflow.converters.abelian_grouper.AbelianGrouper is deprecated as of qiskit-terra 0.24.0. It will be removed in the Qiskit 1.0 release. For code migration guidelines, visit https://qisk.it/opflow_migration(opens in a new tab).
Parameters
traverse (bool(opens in a new tab)) – Whether to convert only the Operator passed to convert, or traverse down that Operator.
Methods
convert
convert(operator)
Check if operator is a SummedOp, in which case covert it into a sum of mutually commuting sums, or if the Operator contains sub-Operators and traverse is True, attempt to convert any sub-Operators.
Parameters
operator (OperatorBase) – The Operator to attempt to convert.
Returns
The converted Operator.
Return type
group_subops
classmethod group_subops(list_op)
Given a ListOp, attempt to group into Abelian ListOps of the same type.
Parameters
list_op (ListOp |PauliSumOp) – The Operator to group into Abelian groups
Returns
The grouped Operator.
Raises
OpflowError – If any of list_op’s sub-ops is not PauliOp.
Return type