Source code for qiskit.aqua.circuits.fixed_value_comparator

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"""Fixed Value Comparator."""

import warnings
import numpy as np

from qiskit.circuit.library import IntegerComparator
from qiskit.aqua.utils.circuit_factory import CircuitFactory


[docs]class FixedValueComparator(CircuitFactory): r"""*DEPRECATED.* Fixed Value Comparator .. deprecated:: 0.7.0 Use Terra's qiskit.circuit.library.IntegerComparator instead. Operator compares basis states \|i>_n against a classically given fixed value L and flips a target qubit if i >= L (or < depending on parameters): \|i>_n\|0> --> \|i>_n\|1> if i >= L else \|i>\|0> Operator is based on two's complement implementation of binary subtraction but only uses carry bits and no actual result bits. If the most significant carry bit (= results bit) is 1, the ">=" condition is True otherwise it is False. """ def __init__(self, num_state_qubits, value, geq=True, i_state=None, i_target=None): """ Args: num_state_qubits (int): number of state qubits, the target qubit comes on top of this value (int): fixed value to compare with geq (Optional(bool)): evaluate ">=" condition of "<" condition i_state (Optional(Union(list, numpy.ndarray))): indices of state qubits in given list of qubits / register, if None, i_state = list(range(num_state_qubits)) is used i_target (Optional(int)): index of target qubit in given list of qubits / register, if None, i_target = num_state_qubits is used """ warnings.warn('The qiskit.aqua.circuits.FixedValueComparator object is deprecated and will ' 'be removed no earlier than 3 months after the 0.7.0 release of Qiskit Aqua. ' 'You should use qiskit.circuit.library.IntegerComparator instead.', DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2) super().__init__(num_state_qubits + 1) self._comparator_circuit = IntegerComparator(value=value, num_state_qubits=num_state_qubits, geq=geq) self.i_state = None if i_state is not None: self.i_state = i_state else: self.i_state = range(num_state_qubits) self.i_target = None if i_target is not None: self.i_target = i_target else: self.i_target = num_state_qubits @property def num_state_qubits(self): """ returns num state qubits """ return self._comparator_circuit._num_state_qubits @property def value(self): """ returns value """ return self._comparator_circuit._value
[docs] def required_ancillas(self): return self.num_state_qubits - 1
[docs] def required_ancillas_controlled(self): return self.num_state_qubits - 1
def _get_twos_complement(self): """Returns the 2's complement of value as array Returns: list: two's complement """ twos_complement = pow(2, self.num_state_qubits) - int(np.ceil(self.value)) twos_complement = '{0:b}'.format(twos_complement).rjust(self.num_state_qubits, '0') twos_complement = \ [1 if twos_complement[i] == '1' else 0 for i in reversed(range(len(twos_complement)))] return twos_complement
[docs] def build(self, qc, q, q_ancillas=None, params=None): instr = self._comparator_circuit.to_instruction() qr = [q[i] for i in self.i_state] + [q[self.i_target]] if q_ancillas: # pylint:disable=unnecessary-comprehension qr += [qi for qi in q_ancillas[:self.required_ancillas()]] qc.append(instr, qr)