PauliBasisChange

class PauliBasisChange(destination_basis=None, traverse=True, replacement_fn=None)

Bases: ConverterBase

Deprecated: Converter for changing Paulis into other bases. By default, the diagonal basis composed only of Pauli {Z, I}^n is used as the destination basis to which to convert. Meaning, if a Pauli containing X or Y terms is passed in, which cannot be sampled or evolved natively on some Quantum hardware, the Pauli can be replaced by a composition of a change of basis circuit and a Pauli composed of only Z and I terms (diagonal), which can be evolved or sampled natively on the Quantum hardware.

The replacement function determines how the PauliOps should be replaced by their computed change-of-basis CircuitOps and destination PauliOps. Several convenient out-of-the-box replacement functions have been added as static methods, such as measurement_replacement_fn.

This class uses the typical basis change method found in most Quantum Computing textbooks (such as on page 210 of Nielsen and Chuang’s, «Quantum Computation and Quantum Information», ISBN: 978-1-107-00217-3), which involves diagonalizing the single-qubit Paulis with H and S† gates, mapping the eigenvectors of the diagonalized origin Pauli to the diagonalized destination Pauli using CNOTS, and then de-diagonalizing any single qubit Paulis to their non-diagonal destination values. Many other methods are possible, as well as variations on this method, such as the placement of the CNOT chains.

Obsoleto desde la versión 0.24.0: The class qiskit.opflow.converters.pauli_basis_change.PauliBasisChange is deprecated as of qiskit-terra 0.24.0. It will be removed no earlier than 3 months after the release date. For code migration guidelines, visit https://qisk.it/opflow_migration.

Parámetros

• destination_basis (Optional[Union[Pauli, PauliOp]]) – The Pauli into the basis of which the operators will be converted. If None is specified, the destination basis will be the diagonal ({I, Z}^n) basis requiring only single qubit rotations.

• traverse (bool) – If true and the operator passed into convert contains sub-Operators, such as ListOp, traverse the Operator and apply the conversion to every applicable sub-operator within it.

• replacement_fn (Optional[Callable]) –

  A function specifying what to do with the basis-change CircuitOp and destination PauliOp when converting an Operator and replacing converted values. By default, this will be

  1. For StateFns (or Measurements): replacing the StateFn with ComposedOp(StateFn(d), c) where c is the conversion circuit and d is the destination Pauli, so the overall beginning and ending operators are equivalent.

  2. For non-StateFn Operators: replacing the origin p with c·d·c†, where c is the conversion circuit and d is the destination, so the overall beginning and ending operators are equivalent.

Methods Defined Here

construct_cnot_chain	Construct a CircuitOp (or PauliOp if equal to the identity) which takes the eigenvectors of diag_pauli_op1 to the eigenvectors of diag_pauli_op2, assuming both are diagonal (or performing this operation on their diagonalized Paulis implicitly if not).
convert	Given a PauliOp, or an Operator containing PauliOps if _traverse is True, converts each Pauli into the basis specified by self._destination and a basis-change-circuit, calls replacement_fn with these two Operators, and replaces the PauliOps with the output of replacement_fn.
get_cob_circuit	Construct an Operator which maps the +1 and -1 eigenvectors of the origin Pauli to the +1 and -1 eigenvectors of the destination Pauli.
get_diagonal_pauli_op	Get the diagonal PualiOp to which pauli_op could be rotated with only single-qubit operations.
get_diagonalizing_clifford	Construct a CircuitOp with only single-qubit gates which takes the eigenvectors of pauli to eigenvectors composed only of |0⟩ and |1⟩ tensor products.
get_tpb_pauli	Gets the Pauli (not PauliOp!) whose diagonalizing single-qubit rotations is a superset of the diagonalizing single-qubit rotations for each of the Paulis in list_op.
measurement_replacement_fn	A built-in convenience replacement function which produces measurements isomorphic to an OperatorStateFn measurement holding the origin PauliOp.
operator_replacement_fn	A built-in convenience replacement function which produces Operators isomorphic to the origin PauliOp.
pad_paulis_to_equal_length	If pauli_op1 and pauli_op2 do not act over the same number of qubits, pad identities to the end of the shorter of the two so they are of equal length.
statefn_replacement_fn	A built-in convenience replacement function which produces state functions isomorphic to an OperatorStateFn state function holding the origin PauliOp.

Attributes

destination

The destination PauliOp, or None if using the default destination, the diagonal basis.