Schedule
class qiskit.pulse.Schedule(*schedules, name=None, metadata=None)
Bases: object
A quantum program schedule with exact time constraints for its instructions, operating over all input signal channels and supporting special syntaxes for building.
Pulse program representation for the original Qiskit Pulse model [1]. Instructions are not allowed to overlap in time on the same channel. This overlap constraint is immediately evaluated when a new instruction is added to the Schedule
object.
It is necessary to specify the absolute start time and duration for each instruction so as to deterministically fix its execution time.
The Schedule
program supports some syntax sugar for easier programming.
-
Appending an instruction to the end of a channel
from qiskit.pulse import Schedule, Gaussian, DriveChannel, Play sched = Schedule() sched += Play(Gaussian(160, 0.1, 40), DriveChannel(0))
-
Appending an instruction shifted in time by a given amount
sched = Schedule() sched += Play(Gaussian(160, 0.1, 40), DriveChannel(0)) << 30
-
Merge two schedules
sched1 = Schedule() sched1 += Play(Gaussian(160, 0.1, 40), DriveChannel(0)) sched2 = Schedule() sched2 += Play(Gaussian(160, 0.1, 40), DriveChannel(1)) sched2 = sched1 | sched2
A PulseError
is immediately raised when the overlap constraint is violated.
In the schedule representation, we cannot parametrize the duration of instructions. Thus, we need to create a new schedule object for each duration. To parametrize an instruction’s duration, the ScheduleBlock
representation may be used instead.
References
[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06755
Create an empty schedule.
The class qiskit.pulse.schedule.Schedule
is deprecated as of Qiskit 1.3. It will be removed in Qiskit 2.0. The entire Qiskit Pulse package is being deprecated and will be moved to the Qiskit Dynamics repository: https://github.com/qiskit-community/qiskit-dynamics
Parameters
- *schedules ('ScheduleComponent' | tuple[int, 'ScheduleComponent']) – Child Schedules of this parent Schedule. May either be passed as the list of schedules, or a list of
(start_time, schedule)
pairs. - name (str | None) – Name of this schedule. Defaults to an autogenerated string if not provided.
- metadata (dict | None) – Arbitrary key value metadata to associate with the schedule. This gets stored as free-form data in a dict in the
metadata
attribute. It will not be directly used in the schedule.
Raises
TypeError – if metadata is not a dict.
Attributes
channels
Returns channels that this schedule uses.
children
Return the child schedule components of this Schedule
in the order they were added to the schedule.
Notes
Nested schedules are returned as-is. If you want to collect only instructions, use instructions()
instead.
Returns
A tuple, where each element is a two-tuple containing the initial scheduled time of each NamedValue
and the component itself.
duration
Duration of this schedule.
instances_counter
Default value: count(5)
instructions
Get the time-ordered instructions from self.
metadata
The user provided metadata associated with the schedule.
User provided dict
of metadata for the schedule. The metadata contents do not affect the semantics of the program but are used to influence the execution of the schedule. It is expected to be passed between all transforms of the schedule and that providers will associate any schedule metadata with the results it returns from the execution of that schedule.
name
Name of this Schedule
parameters
Parameters which determine the schedule behavior.
prefix
Default value: 'sched'
start_time
Starting time of this schedule.
stop_time
Stopping time of this schedule.
timeslots
Time keeping attribute.
Methods
append
append(schedule, name=None, inplace=False)
Return a new schedule with schedule
inserted at the maximum time over all channels shared between self
and schedule
.
Parameters
- schedule (ScheduleComponent) – Schedule to be appended.
- name (str | None) – Name of the new
Schedule
. Defaults to name ofself
. - inplace (bool) – Perform operation inplace on this schedule. Otherwise return a new
Schedule
.
Return type
assign_parameters
assign_parameters(value_dict, inplace=True)
Assign the parameters in this schedule according to the input.
Parameters
- value_dict (dict[ParameterExpression |ParameterVector |str, ParameterValueType | Sequence[ParameterValueType]]) – A mapping from parameters or parameter names (parameter vector
- values (or parameter vector name) to either numeric) –
- expression (or another parameter) –
- inplace (bool) – Set
True
to override this instance with new parameter.
Returns
Schedule with updated parameters.
Return type
ch_duration
ch_duration(*channels)
Return the time of the end of the last instruction over the supplied channels.
Parameters
*channels (Channel) – Channels within self
to include.
Return type
ch_start_time
ch_start_time(*channels)
Return the time of the start of the first instruction over the supplied channels.
Parameters
*channels (Channel) – Channels within self
to include.
Return type
ch_stop_time
ch_stop_time(*channels)
Return maximum start time over supplied channels.
Parameters
*channels (Channel) – Channels within self
to include.
Return type
draw
draw(style=None, backend=None, time_range=None, time_unit='dt', disable_channels=None, show_snapshot=True, show_framechange=True, show_waveform_info=True, plot_barrier=True, plotter='mpl2d', axis=None, show_barrier=True)
Plot the schedule.
Parameters
-
style (dict[str, Any] | None) – Stylesheet options. This can be dictionary or preset stylesheet classes. See
IQXStandard
,IQXSimple
, andIQXDebugging
for details of preset stylesheets. -
backend (Optional[BaseBackend]) – Backend object to play the input pulse program. If provided, the plotter may use to make the visualization hardware aware.
-
time_range (tuple[int, int] | None) – Set horizontal axis limit. Tuple
(tmin, tmax)
. -
time_unit (str) – The unit of specified time range either
dt
orns
. The unit of ns is available only whenbackend
object is provided. -
disable_channels (list[Channel] | None) – A control property to show specific pulse channel. Pulse channel instances provided as a list are not shown in the output image.
-
show_snapshot (bool) – Show snapshot instructions.
-
show_framechange (bool) – Show frame change instructions. The frame change represents instructions that modulate phase or frequency of pulse channels.
-
show_waveform_info (bool) – Show additional information about waveforms such as their name.
-
plot_barrier (bool) – Show barrier lines.
-
plotter (str) –
Name of plotter API to generate an output image. One of following APIs should be specified:
mpl2d: Matplotlib API for 2D image generation. Matplotlib API to generate 2D image. Charts are placed along y axis with vertical offset. This API takes matplotlib.axes.Axes as ``axis`` input.
axis
andstyle
kwargs may depend on the plotter. -
axis (Any | None) – Arbitrary object passed to the plotter. If this object is provided, the plotters use a given
axis
instead of internally initializing a figure object. This object format depends on the plotter. See plotter argument for details. -
show_barrier (bool) – DEPRECATED. Show barrier lines.
Returns
Visualization output data. The returned data type depends on the plotter
. If matplotlib family is specified, this will be a matplotlib.pyplot.Figure
data.
exclude
exclude(*filter_funcs, channels=None, instruction_types=None, time_ranges=None, intervals=None, check_subroutine=True)
Return a Schedule
with only the instructions from this Schedule failing at least one of the provided filters. This method is the complement of filter()
, so that:
self.filter(args) | self.exclude(args) == self
Parameters
- filter_funcs (Callable) – A list of Callables which take a (int, Union[‘Schedule’, Instruction]) tuple and return a bool.
- channels (Iterable[Channel] | None) – For example,
[DriveChannel(0), AcquireChannel(0)]
. - instruction_types (Iterable[abc.ABCMeta] | abc.ABCMeta) – For example,
[PulseInstruction, AcquireInstruction]
. - time_ranges (Iterable[tuple[int, int]] | None) – For example,
[(0, 5), (6, 10)]
. - intervals (Iterable[Interval] | None) – For example,
[(0, 5), (6, 10)]
. - check_subroutine (bool) – Set True to individually filter instructions inside of a subroutine defined by the
Call
instruction.
Return type
filter
filter(*filter_funcs, channels=None, instruction_types=None, time_ranges=None, intervals=None, check_subroutine=True)
Return a new Schedule
with only the instructions from this Schedule
which pass though the provided filters; i.e. an instruction will be retained iff every function in filter_funcs
returns True
, the instruction occurs on a channel type contained in channels
, the instruction type is contained in instruction_types
, and the period over which the instruction operates is fully contained in one specified in time_ranges
or intervals
.
If no arguments are provided, self
is returned.
Parameters
- filter_funcs (Callable) – A list of Callables which take a (int, Union[‘Schedule’, Instruction]) tuple and return a bool.
- channels (Iterable[Channel] | None) – For example,
[DriveChannel(0), AcquireChannel(0)]
. - instruction_types (Iterable[abc.ABCMeta] | abc.ABCMeta) – For example,
[PulseInstruction, AcquireInstruction]
. - time_ranges (Iterable[tuple[int, int]] | None) – For example,
[(0, 5), (6, 10)]
. - intervals (Iterable[Interval] | None) – For example,
[(0, 5), (6, 10)]
. - check_subroutine (bool) – Set True to individually filter instructions inside of a subroutine defined by the
Call
instruction.
Return type
get_parameters
get_parameters(parameter_name)
Get parameter object bound to this schedule by string name.
Because different Parameter
objects can have the same name, this method returns a list of Parameter
s for the provided name.
Parameters
parameter_name (str) – Name of parameter.
Returns
Parameter objects that have corresponding name.
Return type
initialize_from
classmethod initialize_from(other_program, name=None)
Create new schedule object with metadata of another schedule object.
Parameters
- other_program (Any) – Qiskit program that provides metadata to new object.
- name (str | None) – Name of new schedule. Name of
schedule
is used by default.
Returns
New schedule object with name and metadata.
Raises
PulseError – When other_program does not provide necessary information.
Return type
insert
insert(start_time, schedule, name=None, inplace=False)
Return a new schedule with schedule
inserted into self
at start_time
.
Parameters
- start_time (int) – Time to insert the schedule.
- schedule (ScheduleComponent) – Schedule to insert.
- name (str | None) – Name of the new schedule. Defaults to the name of self.
- inplace (bool) – Perform operation inplace on this schedule. Otherwise return a new
Schedule
.
Return type
is_parameterized
replace
replace(old, new, inplace=False)
Return a Schedule
with the old
instruction replaced with a new
instruction.
The replacement matching is based on an instruction equality check.
from qiskit import pulse
d0 = pulse.DriveChannel(0)
sched = pulse.Schedule()
old = pulse.Play(pulse.Constant(100, 1.0), d0)
new = pulse.Play(pulse.Constant(100, 0.1), d0)
sched += old
sched = sched.replace(old, new)
assert sched == pulse.Schedule(new)
Only matches at the top-level of the schedule tree. If you wish to perform this replacement over all instructions in the schedule tree. Flatten the schedule prior to running:
sched = pulse.Schedule()
sched += pulse.Schedule(old)
sched = sched.replace(old, new)
assert sched == pulse.Schedule(new)
Parameters
- old (Schedule |Instruction) – Instruction to replace.
- new (Schedule |Instruction) – Instruction to replace with.
- inplace (bool) – Replace instruction by mutably modifying this
Schedule
.
Returns
The modified schedule with old
replaced by new
.
Raises
PulseError – If the Schedule
after replacements will has a timing overlap.
Return type
shift
shift(time, name=None, inplace=False)
Return a schedule shifted forward by time
.
Parameters
- time (int) – Time to shift by.
- name (str | None) – Name of the new schedule. Defaults to the name of self.
- inplace (bool) – Perform operation inplace on this schedule. Otherwise return a new
Schedule
.
Return type