pygsti.modelmembers.errorgencontainer

Defines the ErrorGeneratorContainer helper class.

Module Contents

Classes

ErrorGeneratorContainer

Add-on class that implements a number of error-generator access functions

ErrorMapContainer

Add-on class that implements a number of error-generator access functions

NoErrorGeneratorInterface

Add-on class that implements a number of error-generator access functions for an op that has no error generator.

class pygsti.modelmembers.errorgencontainer.ErrorGeneratorContainer(errorgen)

Bases: object

Add-on class that implements a number of error-generator access functions

errorgen_coefficients(return_basis=False, logscale_nonham=False)

Constructs a dictionary of the Lindblad-error-generator coefficients of this operation.

Note that these are not necessarily the parameter values, as these coefficients are generally functions of the parameters (so as to keep the coefficients positive, for instance).

Parameters

return_basisbool, optional

Whether to also return a Basis containing the elements with which the error generator terms were constructed.

logscale_nonhambool, optional

Whether or not the non-hamiltonian error generator coefficients should be scaled so that the returned dict contains: (1 - exp(-d^2 * coeff)) / d^2 instead of coeff. This essentially converts the coefficient into a rate that is the contribution this term would have within a depolarizing channel where all stochastic generators had this same coefficient. This is the value returned by error_rates().

Returns

lindblad_term_dictdict

Keys are (termType, basisLabel1, <basisLabel2>) tuples, where termType is “H” (Hamiltonian), “S” (Stochastic), or “A” (Affine). Hamiltonian and Affine terms always have a single basis label (so key is a 2-tuple) whereas Stochastic tuples have 1 basis label to indicate a diagonal term and otherwise have 2 basis labels to specify off-diagonal non-Hamiltonian Lindblad terms. Basis labels are integers starting at 0. Values are complex coefficients.

basisBasis

A Basis mapping the basis labels used in the keys of lindblad_term_dict to basis matrices.

errorgen_coefficient_labels()

The elementary error-generator labels corresponding to the elements of errorgen_coefficients_array().

Returns

tuple

A tuple of (<type>, <basisEl1> [,<basisEl2]) elements identifying the elementary error generators of this gate.

errorgen_coefficients_array()

The weighted coefficients of this operation’s error generator in terms of “standard” error generators.

Constructs a 1D array of all the coefficients returned by errorgen_coefficients(), weighted so that different error generators can be weighted differently when a errorgen_penalty_factor is used in an objective function.

Returns

numpy.ndarray

A 1D array of length equal to the number of coefficients in the linear combination of standard error generators that is this operation’s error generator.

errorgen_coefficients_array_deriv_wrt_params()

The jacobian of errogen_coefficients_array() with respect to this operation’s parameters.

Returns

numpy.ndarray

A 2D array of shape (num_coeffs, num_params) where num_coeffs is the number of coefficients of this operation’s error generator and num_params is this operation’s number of parameters.

error_rates()

Constructs a dictionary of the error rates associated with this operation.

The “error rate” for an individual Hamiltonian error is the angle about the “axis” (generalized in the multi-qubit case) corresponding to a particular basis element, i.e. theta in the unitary channel U = exp(i * theta/2 * BasisElement).

The “error rate” for an individual Stochastic error is the contribution that basis element’s term would have to the error rate of a depolarization channel. For example, if the rate corresponding to the term (‘S’,’X’) is 0.01 this means that the coefficient of the rho -> X*rho*X-rho error generator is set such that if this coefficient were used for all 3 (X,Y, and Z) terms the resulting depolarizing channel would have error rate 3*0.01 = 0.03.

Note that because error generator terms do not necessarily commute with one another, the sum of the returned error rates is not necessarily the error rate of the overall channel.

Returns

lindblad_term_dictdict

Keys are (termType, basisLabel1, <basisLabel2>) tuples, where termType is “H” (Hamiltonian), “S” (Stochastic), or “A” (Affine). Hamiltonian and Affine terms always have a single basis label (so key is a 2-tuple) whereas Stochastic tuples have 1 basis label to indicate a diagonal term and otherwise have 2 basis labels to specify off-diagonal non-Hamiltonian Lindblad terms. Values are real error rates except for the 2-basis-label case.

set_errorgen_coefficients(lindblad_term_dict, action='update', logscale_nonham=False, truncate=False)

Sets the coefficients of terms in the error generator of this operation.

The dictionary lindblad_term_dict has tuple-keys describing the type of term and the basis elements used to construct it, e.g. (‘H’,’X’).

Parameters

lindblad_term_dictdict

Keys are (termType, basisLabel1, <basisLabel2>) tuples, where termType is “H” (Hamiltonian), “S” (Stochastic), or “A” (Affine). Hamiltonian and Affine terms always have a single basis label (so key is a 2-tuple) whereas Stochastic tuples have 1 basis label to indicate a diagonal term and otherwise have 2 basis labels to specify off-diagonal non-Hamiltonian Lindblad terms. Values are the coefficients of these error generators, and should be real except for the 2-basis-label case.

action{“update”,”add”,”reset”}

How the values in lindblad_term_dict should be combined with existing error-generator coefficients.

logscale_nonhambool, optional

Whether or not the values in lindblad_term_dict for non-hamiltonian error generators should be interpreted as error rates (of an “equivalent” depolarizing channel, see errorgen_coefficients()) instead of raw coefficients. If True, then the non-hamiltonian coefficients are set to -log(1 - d^2*rate)/d^2, where rate is the corresponding value given in lindblad_term_dict. This is what is performed by the function set_error_rates().

truncatebool, optional

Whether to allow adjustment of the errogen coefficients in order to meet constraints (e.g. to preserve CPTP) when necessary. If False, then an error is thrown when the given coefficients cannot be set as specified.

Returns

None

set_error_rates(lindblad_term_dict, action='update')

Sets the coeffcients of terms in the error generator of this operation.

Values are set so that the contributions of the resulting channel’s error rate are given by the values in lindblad_term_dict. See error_rates() for more details.

Parameters

lindblad_term_dictdict

Keys are (termType, basisLabel1, <basisLabel2>) tuples, where termType is “H” (Hamiltonian), “S” (Stochastic), or “A” (Affine). Hamiltonian and Affine terms always have a single basis label (so key is a 2-tuple) whereas Stochastic tuples have 1 basis label to indicate a diagonal term and otherwise have 2 basis labels to specify off-diagonal non-Hamiltonian Lindblad terms. Values are real error rates except for the 2-basis-label case, when they may be complex.

action{“update”,”add”,”reset”}

How the values in lindblad_term_dict should be combined with existing error rates.

Returns

None

class pygsti.modelmembers.errorgencontainer.ErrorMapContainer(error_map)

Bases: object

Add-on class that implements a number of error-generator access functions

errorgen_coefficients(return_basis=False, logscale_nonham=False)

Constructs a dictionary of the Lindblad-error-generator coefficients of this operation.

Note that these are not necessarily the parameter values, as these coefficients are generally functions of the parameters (so as to keep the coefficients positive, for instance).

Parameters

return_basisbool, optional

Whether to also return a Basis containing the elements with which the error generator terms were constructed.

logscale_nonhambool, optional

Whether or not the non-hamiltonian error generator coefficients should be scaled so that the returned dict contains: (1 - exp(-d^2 * coeff)) / d^2 instead of coeff. This essentially converts the coefficient into a rate that is the contribution this term would have within a depolarizing channel where all stochastic generators had this same coefficient. This is the value returned by error_rates().

Returns

lindblad_term_dictdict

Keys are (termType, basisLabel1, <basisLabel2>) tuples, where termType is “H” (Hamiltonian), “S” (Stochastic), or “A” (Affine). Hamiltonian and Affine terms always have a single basis label (so key is a 2-tuple) whereas Stochastic tuples have 1 basis label to indicate a diagonal term and otherwise have 2 basis labels to specify off-diagonal non-Hamiltonian Lindblad terms. Basis labels are integers starting at 0. Values are complex coefficients.

basisBasis

A Basis mapping the basis labels used in the keys of lindblad_term_dict to basis matrices.

errorgen_coefficient_labels()

The elementary error-generator labels corresponding to the elements of errorgen_coefficients_array().

Returns

tuple

A tuple of (<type>, <basisEl1> [,<basisEl2]) elements identifying the elementary error generators of this gate.

errorgen_coefficients_array()

The weighted coefficients of this operation’s error generator in terms of “standard” error generators.

Constructs a 1D array of all the coefficients returned by errorgen_coefficients(), weighted so that different error generators can be weighted differently when a errorgen_penalty_factor is used in an objective function.

Returns

numpy.ndarray

A 1D array of length equal to the number of coefficients in the linear combination of standard error generators that is this operation’s error generator.

errorgen_coefficients_array_deriv_wrt_params()

The jacobian of errogen_coefficients_array() with respect to this operation’s parameters.

Returns

numpy.ndarray

A 2D array of shape (num_coeffs, num_params) where num_coeffs is the number of coefficients of this operation’s error generator and num_params is this operation’s number of parameters.

error_rates()

Constructs a dictionary of the error rates associated with this operation.

The “error rate” for an individual Hamiltonian error is the angle about the “axis” (generalized in the multi-qubit case) corresponding to a particular basis element, i.e. theta in the unitary channel U = exp(i * theta/2 * BasisElement).

The “error rate” for an individual Stochastic error is the contribution that basis element’s term would have to the error rate of a depolarization channel. For example, if the rate corresponding to the term (‘S’,’X’) is 0.01 this means that the coefficient of the rho -> X*rho*X-rho error generator is set such that if this coefficient were used for all 3 (X,Y, and Z) terms the resulting depolarizing channel would have error rate 3*0.01 = 0.03.

Note that because error generator terms do not necessarily commute with one another, the sum of the returned error rates is not necessarily the error rate of the overall channel.

Returns

lindblad_term_dictdict

Keys are (termType, basisLabel1, <basisLabel2>) tuples, where termType is “H” (Hamiltonian), “S” (Stochastic), or “A” (Affine). Hamiltonian and Affine terms always have a single basis label (so key is a 2-tuple) whereas Stochastic tuples have 1 basis label to indicate a diagonal term and otherwise have 2 basis labels to specify off-diagonal non-Hamiltonian Lindblad terms. Values are real error rates except for the 2-basis-label case.

class pygsti.modelmembers.errorgencontainer.NoErrorGeneratorInterface

Bases: object

Add-on class that implements a number of error-generator access functions for an op that has no error generator.

errorgen_coefficients(return_basis=False, logscale_nonham=False)

Constructs a dictionary of the Lindblad-error-generator coefficients of this operation.

Note that these are not necessarily the parameter values, as these coefficients are generally functions of the parameters (so as to keep the coefficients positive, for instance).

Parameters

return_basisbool, optional

Whether to also return a Basis containing the elements with which the error generator terms were constructed.

logscale_nonhambool, optional

Whether or not the non-hamiltonian error generator coefficients should be scaled so that the returned dict contains: (1 - exp(-d^2 * coeff)) / d^2 instead of coeff. This essentially converts the coefficient into a rate that is the contribution this term would have within a depolarizing channel where all stochastic generators had this same coefficient. This is the value returned by error_rates().

Returns

lindblad_term_dictdict

Keys are (termType, basisLabel1, <basisLabel2>) tuples, where termType is “H” (Hamiltonian), “S” (Stochastic), or “A” (Affine). Hamiltonian and Affine terms always have a single basis label (so key is a 2-tuple) whereas Stochastic tuples have 1 basis label to indicate a diagonal term and otherwise have 2 basis labels to specify off-diagonal non-Hamiltonian Lindblad terms. Basis labels are integers starting at 0. Values are complex coefficients.

basisBasis

A Basis mapping the basis labels used in the keys of lindblad_term_dict to basis matrices.

set_errorgen_coefficients(lindblad_term_dict, action='update', logscale_nonham=False, truncate=True)

Sets the coefficients of terms in the error generator of this operation.

The dictionary lindblad_term_dict has tuple-keys describing the type of term and the basis elements used to construct it, e.g. (‘H’,’X’).

Parameters

lindblad_term_dictdict

Keys are (termType, basisLabel1, <basisLabel2>) tuples, where termType is “H” (Hamiltonian), “S” (Stochastic), or “A” (Affine). Hamiltonian and Affine terms always have a single basis label (so key is a 2-tuple) whereas Stochastic tuples have 1 basis label to indicate a diagonal term and otherwise have 2 basis labels to specify off-diagonal non-Hamiltonian Lindblad terms. Values are the coefficients of these error generators, and should be real except for the 2-basis-label case.

action{“update”,”add”,”reset”}

How the values in lindblad_term_dict should be combined with existing error-generator coefficients.

logscale_nonhambool, optional

Whether or not the values in lindblad_term_dict for non-hamiltonian error generators should be interpreted as error rates (of an “equivalent” depolarizing channel, see errorgen_coefficients()) instead of raw coefficients. If True, then the non-hamiltonian coefficients are set to -log(1 - d^2*rate)/d^2, where rate is the corresponding value given in lindblad_term_dict. This is what is performed by the function set_error_rates().

truncatebool, optional

Whether to allow adjustment of the errogen coefficients in order to meet constraints (e.g. to preserve CPTP) when necessary. If False, then an error is thrown when the given coefficients cannot be set as specified.

Returns

None

errorgen_coefficient_labels()

The elementary error-generator labels corresponding to the elements of errorgen_coefficients_array().

Returns

tuple

A tuple of (<type>, <basisEl1> [,<basisEl2]) elements identifying the elementary error generators of this gate.

errorgen_coefficients_array()

The weighted coefficients of this operation’s error generator in terms of “standard” error generators.

Constructs a 1D array of all the coefficients returned by errorgen_coefficients(), weighted so that different error generators can be weighted differently when a errorgen_penalty_factor is used in an objective function.

Returns

numpy.ndarray

A 1D array of length equal to the number of coefficients in the linear combination of standard error generators that is this operation’s error generator.

errorgen_coefficients_array_deriv_wrt_params()

The jacobian of errogen_coefficients_array() with respect to this operation’s parameters.

Returns

numpy.ndarray

A 2D array of shape (num_coeffs, num_params) where num_coeffs is the number of coefficients of this operation’s error generator and num_params is this operation’s number of parameters.

error_rates()

Constructs a dictionary of the error rates associated with this operation.

The “error rate” for an individual Hamiltonian error is the angle about the “axis” (generalized in the multi-qubit case) corresponding to a particular basis element, i.e. theta in the unitary channel U = exp(i * theta/2 * BasisElement).

The “error rate” for an individual Stochastic error is the contribution that basis element’s term would have to the error rate of a depolarization channel. For example, if the rate corresponding to the term (‘S’,’X’) is 0.01 this means that the coefficient of the rho -> X*rho*X-rho error generator is set such that if this coefficient were used for all 3 (X,Y, and Z) terms the resulting depolarizing channel would have error rate 3*0.01 = 0.03.

Note that because error generator terms do not necessarily commute with one another, the sum of the returned error rates is not necessarily the error rate of the overall channel.

Returns

lindblad_term_dictdict

Keys are (termType, basisLabel1, <basisLabel2>) tuples, where termType is “H” (Hamiltonian), “S” (Stochastic), or “A” (Affine). Hamiltonian and Affine terms always have a single basis label (so key is a 2-tuple) whereas Stochastic tuples have 1 basis label to indicate a diagonal term and otherwise have 2 basis labels to specify off-diagonal non-Hamiltonian Lindblad terms. Values are real error rates except for the 2-basis-label case.