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UniformDistribution

class UniformDistribution(num_qubits, name='P(X)')

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Bases: qiskit.circuit.quantumcircuit.QuantumCircuit

A circuit to encode a discretized uniform distribution in qubit amplitudes.

This simply corresponds to applying Hadamard gates on all qubits.

The probability density function of the discretized uniform distribution on NN values is

P(X=x)=1N.\mathbb{P}(X = x) = \frac{1}{N}.

This circuit considers N=2nN = 2^n, where n=n = num_qubits and prepares the state

PX0n=12nx=02n1x\mathcal{P}_X |0\rangle^{\otimes n} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2^n}} \sum_{x=0}^{2^n - 1} |x\rangle

Examples

>>> circuit = UniformDistribution(3)
>>> circuit.decompose().draw()
     ┌───┐
q_0: ┤ H ├
     ├───┤
q_1: ┤ H ├
     ├───┤
q_2: ┤ H ├
     └───┘

Parameters

  • num_qubits (int) – The number of qubits in the circuit, the distribution is uniform over 2 ** num_qubits values.
  • name (str) – The name of the circuit.

Attributes

ancillas

Returns a list of ancilla bits in the order that the registers were added.

calibrations

Return calibration dictionary.

The custom pulse definition of a given gate is of the form

{‘gate_name’: {(qubits, params): schedule}}

clbits

Returns a list of classical bits in the order that the registers were added.

data

Return the circuit data (instructions and context).

Returns

a list-like object containing the tuples for the circuit’s data.

Each tuple is in the format (instruction, qargs, cargs), where instruction is an Instruction (or subclass) object, qargs is a list of Qubit objects, and cargs is a list of Clbit objects.

Return type

QuantumCircuitData

extension_lib

Default value: 'include "qelib1.inc";'

global_phase

Return the global phase of the circuit in radians.

Default value: 'OPENQASM 2.0;'

instances

Default value: 16

metadata

The user provided metadata associated with the circuit

The metadata for the circuit is a user provided dict of metadata for the circuit. It will not be used to influence the execution or operation of the circuit, but it is expected to be passed between all transforms of the circuit (ie transpilation) and that providers will associate any circuit metadata with the results it returns from execution of that circuit.

num_ancillas

Return the number of ancilla qubits.

num_clbits

Return number of classical bits.

num_parameters

Convenience function to get the number of parameter objects in the circuit.

num_qubits

Return number of qubits.

parameters

Convenience function to get the parameters defined in the parameter table.

prefix

Default value: 'circuit'

qubits

Returns a list of quantum bits in the order that the registers were added.

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