qiskit.aqua.operators.expectations.PauliExpectation

class PauliExpectation(group_paulis=True)

An Expectation converter for Pauli-basis observables by changing Pauli measurements to a diagonal ({Z, I}^n) basis and appending circuit post-rotations to the measured state function. Optionally groups the Paulis with the same post-rotations (those that commute with one another, or form Abelian groups) into single measurements to reduce circuit execution overhead.

Parameters

group_paulis (bool) – Whether to group the Pauli measurements into commuting sums, which all have the same diagonalizing circuit.

__init__(group_paulis=True)

Parameters

group_paulis (bool) – Whether to group the Pauli measurements into commuting sums, which all have the same diagonalizing circuit.

Methods

__init__([group_paulis])	type group_paulis bool
compute_variance(exp_op)	Compute the variance of the expectation estimator.
convert(operator)	Accepts an Operator and returns a new Operator with the Pauli measurements replaced by diagonal Pauli post-rotation based measurements so they can be evaluated by sampling and averaging.

compute_variance(exp_op)

Compute the variance of the expectation estimator.

Parameters

exp_op (OperatorBase) – The full expectation value Operator after sampling.

Return type

Union[list, float, ndarray]

Returns

The variances or lists thereof (if exp_op contains ListOps) of the expectation value estimation.

convert(operator)

Accepts an Operator and returns a new Operator with the Pauli measurements replaced by diagonal Pauli post-rotation based measurements so they can be evaluated by sampling and averaging.

Parameters

operator (OperatorBase) – The operator to convert.

Return type

OperatorBase

Returns

The converted operator.