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Isometry

class qiskit.circuit.library.Isometry(isometry, num_ancillas_zero, num_ancillas_dirty, epsilon=1e-10)

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Decomposition of arbitrary isometries from mm to nn qubits.

In particular, this allows to decompose unitaries (m=n) and to do state preparation (m=0m=0).

The decomposition is based on [1].

References

  1. Iten et al., Quantum circuits for isometries (2016). Phys. Rev. A 93, 032318.

Parameters

  • isometry (np.ndarray) – An isometry from mm to :math`n` qubits, i.e., a complex np.ndarray of dimension 2n×2m2^n \times 2^m with orthonormal columns (given in the computational basis specified by the order of the ancillas and the input qubits, where the ancillas are considered to be more significant than the input qubits).
  • num_ancillas_zero (int) – Number of additional ancillas that start in the state 0|0\rangle (the nmn-m ancillas required for providing the output of the isometry are not accounted for here).
  • num_ancillas_dirty (int) – Number of additional ancillas that start in an arbitrary state.
  • epsilon (float) – Error tolerance of calculations.

Attributes

base_class

Get the base class of this instruction. This is guaranteed to be in the inheritance tree of self.

The “base class” of an instruction is the lowest class in its inheritance tree that the object should be considered entirely compatible with for _all_ circuit applications. This typically means that the subclass is defined purely to offer some sort of programmer convenience over the base class, and the base class is the “true” class for a behavioral perspective. In particular, you should not override base_class if you are defining a custom version of an instruction that will be implemented differently by hardware, such as an alternative measurement strategy, or a version of a parametrized gate with a particular set of parameters for the purposes of distinguishing it in a Target from the full parametrized gate.

This is often exactly equivalent to type(obj), except in the case of singleton instances of standard-library instructions. These singleton instances are special subclasses of their base class, and this property will return that base. For example:

>>> isinstance(XGate(), XGate)
True
>>> type(XGate()) is XGate
False
>>> XGate().base_class is XGate
True

In general, you should not rely on the precise class of an instruction; within a given circuit, it is expected that Instruction.name should be a more suitable discriminator in most situations.

condition

The classical condition on the instruction.

Deprecated since version 1.3.0

The property qiskit.circuit.instruction.Instruction.condition is deprecated as of Qiskit 1.3.0. It will be removed in 2.0.0.

condition_bits

Get Clbits in condition.

Deprecated since version 1.3.0

The property qiskit.circuit.instruction.Instruction.condition_bits is deprecated as of Qiskit 1.3.0. It will be removed in 2.0.0.

decompositions

Get the decompositions of the instruction from the SessionEquivalenceLibrary.

definition

Return definition in terms of other basic gates.

duration

Get the duration.

Deprecated since version 1.3.0

The property qiskit.circuit.instruction.Instruction.duration is deprecated as of Qiskit 1.3.0. It will be removed in Qiskit 2.0.0.

label

Return instruction label

mutable

Is this instance is a mutable unique instance or not.

If this attribute is False the gate instance is a shared singleton and is not mutable.

name

Return the name.

num_clbits

Return the number of clbits.

num_qubits

Return the number of qubits.

params

The parameters of this Instruction. Ideally these will be gate angles.

unit

Get the time unit of duration.

Deprecated since version 1.3.0

The property qiskit.circuit.instruction.Instruction.unit is deprecated as of Qiskit 1.3.0. It will be removed in Qiskit 2.0.0.


Methods

inv_gate

inv_gate()

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Return the adjoint of the unitary.

inverse

inverse(annotated=False)

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Invert this instruction.

If annotated is False, the inverse instruction is implemented as a fresh instruction with the recursively inverted definition.

If annotated is True, the inverse instruction is implemented as AnnotatedOperation, and corresponds to the given instruction annotated with the “inverse modifier”.

Special instructions inheriting from Instruction can implement their own inverse (e.g. T and Tdg, Barrier, etc.) In particular, they can choose how to handle the argument annotated which may include ignoring it and always returning a concrete gate class if the inverse is defined as a standard gate.

Parameters

annotated (bool) – if set to True the output inverse gate will be returned as AnnotatedOperation.

Returns

The inverse operation.

Raises

CircuitError – if the instruction is not composite and an inverse has not been implemented for it.

validate_parameter

validate_parameter(parameter)

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Isometry parameter has to be an ndarray.

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