Source code for qiskit.quantum_info.analysis.distance

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"""A collection of discrete probability metrics."""
import numpy as np


def _hellinger_distance(dist_p, dist_q):
    """Computes the Hellinger distance between
    two counts distributions.

    Parameters:
        dist_p (dict): First dict of counts.
        dist_q (dict): Second dict of counts.

    Returns:
        float: Distance

    References:
        `Hellinger Distance @ wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellinger_distance>`_
    """
    p_sum = sum(dist_p.values())
    q_sum = sum(dist_q.values())

    p_normed = {}
    for key, val in dist_p.items():
        p_normed[key] = val/p_sum

    q_normed = {}
    for key, val in dist_q.items():
        q_normed[key] = val/q_sum

    total = 0
    for key, val in p_normed.items():
        if key in q_normed.keys():
            total += (np.sqrt(val) - np.sqrt(q_normed[key]))**2
            del q_normed[key]
        else:
            total += val
    total += sum(q_normed.values())

    dist = np.sqrt(total)/np.sqrt(2)

    return dist


def hellinger_fidelity(dist_p, dist_q):
    """Computes the Hellinger fidelity between
    two counts distributions.

    The fidelity is defined as :math:`\\left(1-H^{2}\\right)^{2}` where H is the
    Hellinger distance.  This value is bounded in the range [0, 1].

    This is equivalent to the standard classical fidelity
    :math:`F(Q,P)=\\left(\\sum_{i}\\sqrt{p_{i}q_{i}}\\right)^{2}` that in turn
    is equal to the quantum state fidelity for diagonal density matrices.

    Parameters:
        dist_p (dict): First dict of counts.
        dist_q (dict): Second dict of counts.

    Returns:
        float: Fidelity

    Example:

        .. jupyter-execute::

            from qiskit import QuantumCircuit, execute, BasicAer
            from qiskit.quantum_info.analysis import hellinger_fidelity

            qc = QuantumCircuit(5, 5)
            qc.h(2)
            qc.cx(2, 1)
            qc.cx(2, 3)
            qc.cx(3, 4)
            qc.cx(1, 0)
            qc.measure(range(5), range(5))

            sim = BasicAer.get_backend('qasm_simulator')
            res1 = execute(qc, sim).result()
            res2 = execute(qc, sim).result()

            hellinger_fidelity(res1.get_counts(), res2.get_counts())

    References:
        `Quantum Fidelity @ wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelity_of_quantum_states>`_
        `Hellinger Distance @ wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellinger_distance>`_
    """
    dist = _hellinger_distance(dist_p, dist_q)
    return (1-dist**2)**2