qutip_qip.qiskit

Simulation of qiskit circuits in qutip_qip.

Classes

`QiskitSimulatorBase`([configuration])	The base class for `qutip_qip` based `qiskit` backends.
`QiskitCircuitSimulator`([configuration])	`qiskit` backend dealing with operator-level circuit simulation using `qutip_qip`'s `CircuitSimulator`.
`QiskitPulseSimulator`(processor[, configuration])	`qiskit` backend dealing with pulse-level simulation.
`Provider`()	Provides access to qutip_qip based qiskit backends.
`Job`(backend, job_id, result)	Stores information about an ongoing job.

Fucntions

convert_qiskit_circuit(qiskit_circuit[, ...])

Convert a qiskit.circuit.QuantumCircuit object from qiskit to qutip_qip's QubitCircuit.

class qutip_qip.qiskit.Job(backend, job_id: str, result: Result)[source]

Bases: JobV1

Stores information about an ongoing job.

Parameters

backendQiskitCircuitSimulator: The backend used to simulate a circuit in the job.
job_idstr: Unique ID identifying a job.
resultqiskit.result.Result: The result of a simulation run.

result()[source]: Return the job’s result

status()[source]: Returns job status

submit()[source]: Submit the job to the backend for execution.

class qutip_qip.qiskit.Provider[source]

Bases: ProviderV1

Provides access to qutip_qip based qiskit backends.

Attributes

name: str: Name of the provider

backends(name: Optional[str] = None, filters=None, **kwargs) → list[source]

Returns the available backends

Parameters

name: str: Name of required backend

Returns

list: List of available backends

class qutip_qip.qiskit.QiskitCircuitSimulator(configuration=None, **fields)[source]

Bases: QiskitSimulatorBase

qiskit backend dealing with operator-level circuit simulation using qutip_qip’s CircuitSimulator.

Parameters

configurationdict: Configurable attributes of the backend.

class qutip_qip.qiskit.QiskitPulseSimulator(processor: Processor, configuration=None, **fields)[source]

Bases: QiskitSimulatorBase

qiskit backend dealing with pulse-level simulation.

Parameters

processorProcessor: The processor model to be used for simulation. An instance of the required Processor object is to be provided after initialising it with the required parameters.
configurationdict: Configurable attributes of the backend.

Attributes

processorProcessor: The processor model to be used for simulation.

class qutip_qip.qiskit.QiskitSimulatorBase(configuration=None, **fields)[source]

Bases: BackendV1

The base class for qutip_qip based qiskit backends.

run(qiskit_circuit: QuantumCircuit, **run_options) → Job[source]

Simulates a circuit on the required backend.

Parameters

qiskit_circuitqiskit.circuit.QuantumCircuit

The qiskit circuit to be simulated.

**run_options:

Additional run options for the backend.

Valid options are:

shotsint: Number of times to sample the results.
allow_custom_gate: bool: Allow conversion of circuit using unitary matrices for custom gates.

Returns

Job: Job object that stores results and execution data.

qutip_qip.qiskit.convert_qiskit_circuit(qiskit_circuit: QuantumCircuit, allow_custom_gate=True) → QubitCircuit[source]

Convert a qiskit.circuit.QuantumCircuit object from qiskit to qutip_qip’s QubitCircuit.

Parameters

qiskit_circuitqiskit.circuit.QuantumCircuit: The qiskit.circuit.QuantumCircuit object to be converted to QubitCircuit.
allow_custom_gatebool: If False, this function will raise an error if gate conversion is done using a custom gate’s unitary matrix.

Returns

QubitCircuit: The converted circuit in qutip_qip’s QubitCircuit format.