UnitarySimulator#

class UnitarySimulator(configuration=None, properties=None, provider=None, **backend_options)[source]#

Bases: AerBackend

Ideal quantum circuit unitary simulator.

Configurable Options

The UnitarySimulator supports CPU and GPU simulation methods and additional configurable options. These may be set using the appropriate kwargs during initialization. They can also be set of updated using the set_options() method.

Run-time options may also be specified as kwargs using the run() method. These will not be stored in the backend and will only apply to that execution. They will also override any previously set options.

For example, to configure a a single-precision simulator

backend = UnitarySimulator(precision='single')

Backend Options

The following configurable backend options are supported

device (str): Set the simulation device (Default: "CPU"). Use available_devices() to return a list of devices supported on the current system.
method (str): [DEPRECATED] Set the simulation method supported methods are "unitary" for CPU simulation, and "unitary_gpu" for GPU simulation. This option has been deprecated, use the device option to set “CPU” or “GPU” simulation instead.
precision (str): Set the floating point precision for certain simulation methods to either "single" or "double" precision (default: "double").
executor (futures.Executor): Set a custom executor for asynchronous running of simulation jobs (Default: None).
max_shot_size (int or None): If the number of shots of a noisy circuit exceeds this value simulation will be split into multi circuits for execution and the results accumulated. If None circuits will not be split based on shots. When splitting circuits use the max_job_size option to control how these split circuits should be submitted to the executor (Default: None).
max_shot_size (int or None): If the number of shots with a noise model exceeds this value, simulation will split the experiments into sub experiments in the qobj. If None simulator does nothing (Default: None).
"initial_unitary" (matrix_like): Sets a custom initial unitary matrix for the simulation instead of identity (Default: None).
"validation_threshold" (double): Sets the threshold for checking if initial unitary and target unitary are unitary matrices. (Default: 1e-8).
"zero_threshold" (double): Sets the threshold for truncating small values to zero in the result data (Default: 1e-10).
"max_parallel_threads" (int): Sets the maximum number of CPU cores used by OpenMP for parallelization. If set to 0 the maximum will be set to the number of CPU cores (Default: 0).
"max_parallel_experiments" (int): Sets the maximum number of qobj experiments that may be executed in parallel up to the max_parallel_threads value. If set to 1 parallel circuit execution will be disabled. If set to 0 the maximum will be automatically set to max_parallel_threads (Default: 1).
"max_memory_mb" (int): Sets the maximum size of memory to store a state vector. If a state vector needs more, an error is thrown. In general, a state vector of n-qubits uses 2^n complex values (16 Bytes). If set to 0, the maximum will be automatically set to the system memory size (Default: 0).
"statevector_parallel_threshold" (int): Sets the threshold that 2 * “n_qubits” must be greater than to enable OpenMP parallelization for matrix multiplication during execution of an experiment. If parallel circuit or shot execution is enabled this will only use unallocated CPU cores up to max_parallel_threads. Note that setting this too low can reduce performance (Default: 14).

These backend options apply in circuit optimization passes:

fusion_enable (bool): Enable fusion optimization in circuit optimization passes [Default: True]
fusion_verbose (bool): Output gates generated in fusion optimization into metadata [Default: False]
fusion_max_qubit (int): Maximum number of qubits for a operation generated in a fusion optimization [Default: 5]
fusion_threshold (int): Threshold that number of qubits must be greater than or equal to enable fusion optimization [Default: 7]

Aer class for backends.

This method should initialize the module and its configuration, and raise an exception if a component of the module is not available.

Parameters:

configuration (BackendConfiguration) – backend configuration.
properties (BackendProperties or None) – Optional, backend properties.
provider (Provider) – Optional, provider responsible for this backend.
target (Target) – initial target for backend
backend_options (dict or None) – Optional set custom backend options.

Raises:

AerError – if there is no name in the configuration

Attributes

coupling_map#: Return the CouplingMap object

dt#

Return the system time resolution of input signals

This is required to be implemented if the backend supports Pulse scheduling.

Returns:: The input signal timestep in seconds. If the backend doesn’t define dt, None will be returned.

dtm#

Return the system time resolution of output signals

Returns:: The output signal timestep in seconds.
Raises:: NotImplementedError – if the backend doesn’t support querying the output signal timestep

instruction_durations#: Return the InstructionDurations object.

instruction_schedule_map#: Return the InstructionScheduleMap for the instructions defined in this backend’s target.

instructions#: A list of Instruction tuples on the backend of the form (instruction, (qubits)

max_circuits#

meas_map#

Return the grouping of measurements which are multiplexed

This is required to be implemented if the backend supports Pulse scheduling.

Returns:: The grouping of measurements which are multiplexed
Raises:: NotImplementedError – if the backend doesn’t support querying the measurement mapping

num_qubits#: Return the number of qubits the backend has.

operation_names#: A list of instruction names that the backend supports.

operations#: A list of Instruction instances that the backend supports.

options#

Return the options for the backend

The options of a backend are the dynamic parameters defining how the backend is used. These are used to control the run() method.

provider#

Return the backend Provider.

Returns:: the Provider responsible for the backend.
Return type:: Provider

target#

version = 2#

name#: Name of the backend.

description#: Optional human-readable description.

online_date#: Date that the backend came online.

backend_version#: Version of the backend being provided. This is not the same as BackendV2.version, which is the version of the Backend abstract interface.

Methods

acquire_channel(qubit: int)#

Return the acquisition channel for the given qubit.

This is required to be implemented if the backend supports Pulse scheduling.

Returns:: The Qubit measurement acquisition line.
Return type:: AcquireChannel
Raises:: NotImplementedError – if the backend doesn’t support querying the measurement mapping

available_devices()[source]#: Return the available simulation methods.

available_methods()[source]#: Return the available simulation methods.

clear_options()#: Reset the simulator options to default values.

configuration()#

Return the simulator backend configuration.

Returns:: the configuration for the backend.
Return type:: BackendConfiguration

control_channel(qubits: Iterable[int])#

Return the secondary drive channel for the given qubit

This is typically utilized for controlling multiqubit interactions. This channel is derived from other channels.

This is required to be implemented if the backend supports Pulse scheduling.

Parameters:: qubits – Tuple or list of qubits of the form (control_qubit, target_qubit).
Returns:: The multi qubit control line.
Return type:: List[ControlChannel]
Raises:: NotImplementedError – if the backend doesn’t support querying the measurement mapping

drive_channel(qubit: int)#

Return the drive channel for the given qubit.

This is required to be implemented if the backend supports Pulse scheduling.

Returns:: The Qubit drive channel
Return type:: DriveChannel
Raises:: NotImplementedError – if the backend doesn’t support querying the measurement mapping

get_translation_stage_plugin()#: use custom translation method to avoid gate exchange

measure_channel(qubit: int)#

Return the measure stimulus channel for the given qubit.

This is required to be implemented if the backend supports Pulse scheduling.

Returns:: The Qubit measurement stimulus line
Return type:: MeasureChannel
Raises:: NotImplementedError – if the backend doesn’t support querying the measurement mapping

properties()#

Return the simulator backend properties if set.

Returns:

The backend properties or None if the: backend does not have properties set.

Return type:

BackendProperties

qubit_properties(qubit: int | List[int]) → QubitProperties | List[QubitProperties]#

Return QubitProperties for a given qubit.

If there are no defined or the backend doesn’t support querying these details this method does not need to be implemented.

Parameters:: qubit – The qubit to get the QubitProperties object for. This can be a single integer for 1 qubit or a list of qubits and a list of QubitProperties objects will be returned in the same order
Returns:: The QubitProperties object for the specified qubit. If a list of qubits is provided a list will be returned. If properties are missing for a qubit this can be None.
Raises:: NotImplementedError – if the backend doesn’t support querying the qubit properties

run(circuits, validate=False, parameter_binds=None, **run_options)#

Run circuits on the backend.

Parameters:

circuits (QuantumCircuit or list) – The QuantumCircuit (or list of QuantumCircuit objects) to run
validate (bool) – validate the Qobj before running (default: False).
parameter_binds (list) – A list of parameter binding dictionaries. See additional information (default: None).
run_options (kwargs) – additional run time backend options.

Returns:

The simulation job.

Return type:

AerJob

Raises:

TypeError – If parameter_binds is specified with a qobj input or has a length mismatch with the number of circuits.

Additional Information:

Each parameter binding dictionary is of the form:
```
{
    param_a: [val_1, val_2],
    param_b: [val_3, val_1],
}
```
for all parameters in that circuit. The length of the value list must be the same for all parameters, and the number of parameter dictionaries in the list must match the length of circuits (if circuits is a single QuantumCircuit object it should a list of length 1).
kwarg options specified in run_options will temporarily override any set options of the same name for the current run.

Raises:: ValueError – if run is not implemented

set_option(key, value)[source]#

Special handling for setting backend options.

This method should be extended by sub classes to update special option values.

Parameters:

key (str) – key to update
value (any) – value to update.

Raises:

AerError – if key is ‘method’ and val isn’t in available methods.

set_options(**fields)#: Set the simulator options

status()#

Return backend status.

Returns:: the status of the backend.
Return type:: BackendStatus