Visualizations
qiskit.visualization
The visualization module contain functions that visualizes measurement outcome counts, quantum states, circuits, pulses, devices and more.
To use visualization functions, you are required to install visualization optionals to your development environment:
pip install 'qiskit[visualization]'Common Keyword Arguments
Many of the figures created by visualization functions in this module are created by Matplotlib(opens in a new tab) and accept a subset of the following common arguments. Consult the individual documentation for exact details.
title(str): a text string to use for the plot title.legend(list): a list of strings to use for labels of the data.figsize(tuple): figure size in inches .color(list): a list of strings for plotting.ax(matplotlib.axes.Axes(opens in a new tab)): An optionalAxesobject to be used for the visualization output. If none is specified a new matplotlib.figure.Figure(opens in a new tab) will be created and used. Additionally, if specified there will be no returnedFiguresince it is redundant.filename(str): file path to save image to.
The following example demonstrates the common usage of these arguments:
from qiskit.visualization import plot_histogram
counts1 = {'00': 499, '11': 501}
counts2 = {'00': 511, '11': 489}
data = [counts1, counts2]
plot_histogram(data)(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)
You can specify legend, title, figsize and color by passing to the kwargs.
from qiskit.visualization import plot_histogram
counts1 = {'00': 499, '11': 501}
counts2 = {'00': 511, '11': 489}
data = [counts1, counts2]
legend = ['First execution', 'Second execution']
title = 'New histogram'
figsize = (10,10)
color=['crimson','midnightblue']
plot_histogram(data, legend=legend, title=title, figsize=figsize, color=color)(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)
You can save the figure to file either by passing the file name to filename kwarg or use matplotlib.figure.Figure.savefig(opens in a new tab) method.
plot_histogram(data, filename='new_hist.png')
hist = plot_histogram(data)
hist.savefig('new_hist.png')Counts Visualizations
This section contains functions that visualize measurement outcome counts.
plot_histogram(data[, figsize, color, ...]) | Plot a histogram of input counts data. |
Example Usage
Here is an example of using plot_histogram() to visualize measurement outcome counts:
from qiskit.visualization import plot_histogram
counts = {"00": 501, "11": 499}
plot_histogram(counts)(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)
The data can be a dictionary with bit string as key and counts as value, or more commonly a Counts object obtained from get_counts().
Distribution Visualizations
This section contains functions that visualize sampled distributions.
plot_distribution(data[, figsize, color, ...]) | Plot a distribution from input sampled data. |
State Visualizations
This section contains functions that visualize quantum states.
plot_bloch_vector(bloch[, title, ax, ...]) | Plot the Bloch sphere. |
plot_bloch_multivector(state[, title, ...]) | Plot a Bloch sphere for each qubit. |
plot_state_city(state[, title, figsize, ...]) | Plot the cityscape of quantum state. |
plot_state_hinton(state[, title, figsize, ...]) | Plot a hinton diagram for the density matrix of a quantum state. |
plot_state_paulivec(state[, title, figsize, ...]) | Plot the paulivec representation of a quantum state. |
plot_state_qsphere(state[, figsize, ax, ...]) | Plot the qsphere representation of a quantum state. |
Example Usage
Here is an example of using plot_state_city() to visualize a quantum state:
from qiskit.visualization import plot_state_city
state = [[ 0.75 , 0.433j],
[-0.433j, 0.25 ]]
plot_state_city(state)(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)
The state can be array-like list of lists, numpy.array, or more commonly Statevector or DensityMatrix objects obtained from a QuantumCircuit:
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit
from qiskit.quantum_info import Statevector
from qiskit.visualization import plot_state_city
qc = QuantumCircuit(2)
qc.h(0)
qc.cx(0,1)
# plot using a Statevector
state = Statevector(qc)
plot_state_city(state)(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit
from qiskit.quantum_info import DensityMatrix
from qiskit.visualization import plot_state_city
qc = QuantumCircuit(2)
qc.h(0)
qc.cx(0,1)
# plot using a DensityMatrix
state = DensityMatrix(qc)
plot_state_city(state)(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)
You can find code examples for each visualization functions on the individual function API page.
Device Visualizations
plot_gate_map(backend[, figsize, ...]) | Plots the gate map of a device. |
plot_error_map(backend[, figsize, ...]) | Plots the error map of a given backend. |
plot_circuit_layout(circuit, backend[, ...]) | Plot the layout of a circuit transpiled for a given target backend. |
plot_coupling_map(num_qubits, ...[, ...]) | Plots an arbitrary coupling map of qubits (embedded in a plane). |
Circuit Visualizations
circuit_drawer(circuit[, scale, filename, ...]) | Draw the quantum circuit. |
DefaultStyle() | Creates a Default Style dictionary |
DAG Visualizations
dag_drawer(dag[, scale, filename, style]) | Plot the directed acyclic graph (dag) to represent operation dependencies in a quantum circuit. |
Pass Manager Visualizations
pass_manager_drawer(pass_manager[, ...]) | Draws the pass manager. |
Pulse Visualizations
pulse_drawer(program[, style, backend, ...]) | Generate visualization data for pulse programs. |
IQXStandard(**kwargs) | Standard pulse stylesheet. |
IQXSimple(**kwargs) | Simple pulse stylesheet without channel notation. |
IQXDebugging(**kwargs) | Pulse stylesheet for pulse programmers. |
Timeline Visualizations
timeline_drawer(program[, style, ...]) | Generate visualization data for scheduled circuit programs. |
Single Qubit State Transition Visualizations
visualize_transition(circuit[, trace, ...]) | Creates animation showing transitions between states of a single qubit by applying quantum gates. |
Array/Matrix Visualizations
array_to_latex(array[, precision, prefix, ...]) | Latex representation of a complex numpy array (with dimension 1 or 2) |
Exceptions
VisualizationError(*message) | For visualization specific errors. |