pygsti.tools.optools.instrument_diamonddist

pygsti.tools.optools.instrument_diamonddist#

instrument_diamonddist(a, b, mx_basis, _premultiplier=None)#

The diamond distance between instruments a and b.

Parameters:

  • a (Instrument) – The first instrument.

  • b (Instrument) – The second instrument.

  • mx_basis (Basis or {'pp', 'gm', 'std'}) – the basis that a and b are in.

Return type:

float

Notes

_premultiplier is not in the public API. It’s here for the time being to facilitate leakage modeling. When present, it’s a value returned from pygsti.leakage.computational_projector.