ImaginaryEvolver¶

class ImaginaryEvolver[source]¶

Bases: abc.ABC

Pending deprecation: Interface for Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution.

The ImaginaryEvolver interface has been superseded by the qiskit.algorithms.time_evolvers.ImaginaryTimeEvolver interface. This interface will be deprecated in a future release and subsequently removed after that.

Methods

evolve

Perform imaginary time evolution \(\exp(-\tau H)|\Psi\rangle\).