Source code for qiskit.circuit.library.standard_gates.swap
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"""Swap gate."""
import numpy
from qiskit.circuit.controlledgate import ControlledGate
from qiskit.circuit.gate import Gate
from qiskit.circuit.quantumregister import QuantumRegister
[docs]class SwapGate(Gate):
r"""The SWAP gate.
This is a symmetric and Clifford gate.
**Circuit symbol:**
.. parsed-literal::
q_0: ─X─
│
q_1: ─X─
**Matrix Representation:**
.. math::
SWAP =
\begin{pmatrix}
1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1
\end{pmatrix}
The gate is equivalent to a state swap and is a classical logic gate.
.. math::
|a, b\rangle \rightarrow |b, a\rangle
"""
def __init__(self, label=None):
"""Create new SWAP gate."""
super().__init__("swap", 2, [], label=label)
def _define(self):
"""
gate swap a,b { cx a,b; cx b,a; cx a,b; }
"""
# pylint: disable=cyclic-import
from qiskit.circuit.quantumcircuit import QuantumCircuit
from .x import CXGate
q = QuantumRegister(2, "q")
qc = QuantumCircuit(q, name=self.name)
rules = [
(CXGate(), [q[0], q[1]], []),
(CXGate(), [q[1], q[0]], []),
(CXGate(), [q[0], q[1]], []),
]
for instr, qargs, cargs in rules:
qc._append(instr, qargs, cargs)
self.definition = qc
[docs] def control(self, num_ctrl_qubits=1, label=None, ctrl_state=None):
"""Return a (multi-)controlled-SWAP gate.
One control returns a CSWAP (Fredkin) gate.
Args:
num_ctrl_qubits (int): number of control qubits.
label (str or None): An optional label for the gate [Default: None]
ctrl_state (int or str or None): control state expressed as integer,
string (e.g. '110'), or None. If None, use all 1s.
Returns:
ControlledGate: controlled version of this gate.
"""
if num_ctrl_qubits == 1:
gate = CSwapGate(label=label, ctrl_state=ctrl_state)
gate.base_gate.label = self.label
return gate
return super().control(num_ctrl_qubits=num_ctrl_qubits, label=label, ctrl_state=ctrl_state)
def __array__(self, dtype=None):
"""Return a numpy.array for the SWAP gate."""
return numpy.array([[1, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1, 0], [0, 1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1]], dtype=dtype)
[docs]class CSwapGate(ControlledGate):
r"""Controlled-SWAP gate, also known as the Fredkin gate.
**Circuit symbol:**
.. parsed-literal::
q_0: ─X─
│
q_1: ─X─
│
q_2: ─■─
**Matrix representation:**
.. math::
CSWAP\ q_0, q_1, q_2 =
|0 \rangle \langle 0| \otimes I \otimes I +
|1 \rangle \langle 1| \otimes SWAP =
\begin{pmatrix}
1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\
\end{pmatrix}
.. note::
In Qiskit's convention, higher qubit indices are more significant
(little endian convention). In many textbooks, controlled gates are
presented with the assumption of more significant qubits as control,
which in our case would be q_2. Thus a textbook matrix for this
gate will be:
.. parsed-literal::
q_0: ─■─
│
q_1: ─X─
│
q_2: ─X─
.. math::
CSWAP\ q_2, q_1, q_0 =
|0 \rangle \langle 0| \otimes I \otimes I +
|1 \rangle \langle 1| \otimes SWAP =
\begin{pmatrix}
1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\
\end{pmatrix}
In the computational basis, this gate swaps the states of
the two target qubits if the control qubit is in the
:math:`|1\rangle` state.
.. math::
|0, b, c\rangle \rightarrow |0, b, c\rangle
|1, b, c\rangle \rightarrow |1, c, b\rangle
"""
# Define class constants. This saves future allocation time.
_matrix1 = numpy.array(
[
[1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
]
)
_matrix0 = numpy.array(
[
[1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
]
)
def __init__(self, label=None, ctrl_state=None):
"""Create new CSWAP gate."""
super().__init__(
"cswap",
3,
[],
num_ctrl_qubits=1,
label=label,
ctrl_state=ctrl_state,
base_gate=SwapGate(),
)
def _define(self):
"""
gate cswap a,b,c
{ cx c,b;
ccx a,b,c;
cx c,b;
}
"""
# pylint: disable=cyclic-import
from qiskit.circuit.quantumcircuit import QuantumCircuit
from .x import CXGate, CCXGate
q = QuantumRegister(3, "q")
qc = QuantumCircuit(q, name=self.name)
rules = [
(CXGate(), [q[2], q[1]], []),
(CCXGate(), [q[0], q[1], q[2]], []),
(CXGate(), [q[2], q[1]], []),
]
for instr, qargs, cargs in rules:
qc._append(instr, qargs, cargs)
self.definition = qc
[docs] def inverse(self):
"""Return inverse CSwap gate (itself)."""
return CSwapGate(ctrl_state=self.ctrl_state) # self-inverse
def __array__(self, dtype=None):
"""Return a numpy.array for the Fredkin (CSWAP) gate."""
mat = self._matrix1 if self.ctrl_state else self._matrix0
if dtype:
return numpy.asarray(mat, dtype=dtype)
return mat