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Delay

class qiskit.pulse.instructions.Delay(duration, channel, name=None)

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Bases: Instruction

A blocking instruction with no other effect. The delay is used for aligning and scheduling other instructions.

Example

To schedule an instruction at time = 10, on a channel assigned to the variable channel, the following could be used:

sched = Schedule(name="Delay instruction example")
sched += Delay(10, channel)
sched += Gaussian(duration, amp, sigma, channel)

The channel will output no signal from time=0 up until time=10.

Create a new delay instruction.

No other instruction may be scheduled within a Delay.

Deprecated since version 1.3

The class qiskit.pulse.instructions.delay.Delay 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

  • duration (int |ParameterExpression) – Length of time of the delay in terms of dt.
  • channel (Channel) – The channel that will have the delay.
  • name (str | None) – Name of the delay for display purposes.

Attributes

channel

Return the Channel that this instruction is scheduled on.

channels

Returns the channels that this schedule uses.

duration

Duration of this instruction.

id

Unique identifier for this instruction.

instructions

Iterable for getting instructions from Schedule tree.

name

Name of this instruction.

operands

Return instruction operands.

parameters

Parameters which determine the instruction behavior.

start_time

Relative begin time of this instruction.

stop_time

Relative end time of this instruction.


Methods

append

append(schedule, name=None)

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Return a new Schedule with schedule inserted at the maximum time over all channels shared between self and schedule.

Parameters

  • schedule (Union['Schedule', 'Instruction']) – Schedule or instruction to be appended
  • name (str | None) – Name of the new schedule. Defaults to name of self

Returns

A new schedule with schedule a this instruction at t=0.

Return type

Schedule

ch_duration

ch_duration(*channels)

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Return duration of the supplied channels in this Instruction.

Parameters

*channels (Channel) – Supplied channels

Return type

int

ch_start_time

ch_start_time(*channels)

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Return minimum start time for supplied channels.

Parameters

*channels (Channel) – Supplied channels

Return type

int

ch_stop_time

ch_stop_time(*channels)

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Return maximum start time for supplied channels.

Parameters

*channels (Channel) – Supplied channels

Return type

int

insert

insert(start_time, schedule, name=None)

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Return a new Schedule with schedule inserted within self at start_time.

Parameters

  • start_time (int) – Time to insert the schedule schedule
  • schedule (Union['Schedule', 'Instruction']) – Schedule or instruction to insert
  • name (str | None) – Name of the new schedule. Defaults to name of self

Returns

A new schedule with schedule inserted with this instruction at t=0.

Return type

Schedule

is_parameterized

is_parameterized()

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Return True iff the instruction is parameterized.

Return type

bool

shift

shift(time, name=None)

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Return a new schedule shifted forward by time.

Parameters

  • time (int) – Time to shift by
  • name (str | None) – Name of the new schedule. Defaults to name of self

Returns

The shifted schedule.

Return type

Schedule

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