Source code for qiskit.circuit.library.standard_gates.iswap

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"""iSWAP gate."""

import numpy as np
from qiskit.circuit.gate import Gate
from qiskit.circuit.quantumregister import QuantumRegister


[docs]class iSwapGate(Gate): r"""iSWAP gate. A 2-qubit XX+YY interaction. This is a Clifford and symmetric gate. Its action is to swap two qubit states and phase the :math:`|01\rangle` and :math:`|10\rangle` amplitudes by i. **Circuit Symbol:** .. parsed-literal:: q_0: ─⨂─ q_1: ─⨂─ **Reference Implementation:** .. parsed-literal:: ┌───┐┌───┐ ┌───┐ q_0: ┤ S ├┤ H ├──■──┤ X ├───── ├───┤└───┘┌─┴─┐└─┬─┘┌───┐ q_1: ┤ S ├─────┤ X ├──■──┤ H ├ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ **Matrix Representation:** .. math:: iSWAP = R_{XX+YY}(-\frac{\pi}{2}) = exp(i \frac{\pi}{4} (X{\otimes}X+Y{\otimes}Y)) = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & i & 0 \\ 0 & i & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix} This gate is equivalent to a SWAP up to a diagonal. .. math:: iSWAP = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix} . \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & i & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & i & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix} """ def __init__(self): """Create new iSwap gate.""" super().__init__('iswap', 2, []) def _define(self): """ gate iswap a,b { s q[0]; s q[1]; h q[0]; cx q[0],q[1]; cx q[1],q[0]; h q[1]; } """ from .h import HGate from .s import SGate from .x import CXGate q = QuantumRegister(2, 'q') self.definition = [ (SGate(), [q[0]], []), (SGate(), [q[1]], []), (HGate(), [q[0]], []), (CXGate(), [q[0], q[1]], []), (CXGate(), [q[1], q[0]], []), (HGate(), [q[1]], []) ]
[docs] def to_matrix(self): """Return a numpy.array for the iSWAP gate.""" return np.array([[1, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1j, 0], [0, 1j, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1]], dtype=complex)