VBERippleCarryAdder

class VBERippleCarryAdder(num_state_qubits, kind='full', name='VBERippleCarryAdder')

Bases: qiskit.circuit.library.arithmetic.adders.adder.Adder

The VBE ripple carry adder [1].

This circuit performs inplace addition of two equally-sized quantum registers. As an example, a classical adder circuit that performs full addition (i.e. including a carry-in bit) on two 2-qubit sized registers is as follows:

          ┌────────┐                       ┌───────────┐┌──────┐
   cin_0: ┤0       ├───────────────────────┤0          ├┤0     ├
          │        │                       │           ││      │
     a_0: ┤1       ├───────────────────────┤1          ├┤1     ├
          │        │┌────────┐     ┌──────┐│           ││  Sum │
     a_1: ┤        ├┤1       ├──■──┤1     ├┤           ├┤      ├
          │        ││        │  │  │      ││           ││      │
     b_0: ┤2 Carry ├┤        ├──┼──┤      ├┤2 Carry_dg ├┤2     ├
          │        ││        │┌─┴─┐│      ││           │└──────┘
     b_1: ┤        ├┤2 Carry ├┤ X ├┤2 Sum ├┤           ├────────
          │        ││        │└───┘│      ││           │
  cout_0: ┤        ├┤3       ├─────┤      ├┤           ├────────
          │        ││        │     │      ││           │
helper_0: ┤3       ├┤0       ├─────┤0     ├┤3          ├────────
          └────────┘└────────┘     └──────┘└───────────┘

Here Carry and Sum gates correspond to the gates introduced in [1]. Carry_dg correspond to the inverse of the Carry gate. Note that in this implementation the input register qubits are ordered as all qubits from the first input register, followed by all qubits from the second input register. This is different ordering as compared to Figure 2 in [1], which leads to a different drawing of the circuit.

References:

[1] Vedral et al., Quantum Networks for Elementary Arithmetic Operations, 1995. arXiv:quant-ph/9511018

Parameters

• num_state_qubits (int) – The size of the register.

• kind (str) – The kind of adder, can be 'full' for a full adder, 'half' for a half adder, or 'fixed' for a fixed-sized adder. A full adder includes both carry-in and carry-out, a half only carry-out, and a fixed-sized adder neither carry-in nor carry-out.

• name (str) – The name of the circuit.

Raises

ValueError – If num_state_qubits is lower than 1.

Attributes

ancillas

Returns a list of ancilla bits in the order that the registers were added.

calibrations

Return calibration dictionary.

The custom pulse definition of a given gate is of the form

{‘gate_name’: {(qubits, params): schedule}}

clbits

Returns a list of classical bits in the order that the registers were added.

data

Return the circuit data (instructions and context).

Returns

a list-like object containing the tuples for the circuit’s data.

Each tuple is in the format (instruction, qargs, cargs), where instruction is an Instruction (or subclass) object, qargs is a list of Qubit objects, and cargs is a list of Clbit objects.

Return type

QuantumCircuitData

extension_lib = 'include "qelib1.inc";'

global_phase

Return the global phase of the circuit in radians.

header = 'OPENQASM 2.0;'

instances = 16

metadata

The user provided metadata associated with the circuit

The metadata for the circuit is a user provided dict of metadata for the circuit. It will not be used to influence the execution or operation of the circuit, but it is expected to be passed between all transforms of the circuit (ie transpilation) and that providers will associate any circuit metadata with the results it returns from execution of that circuit.

num_ancillas

Return the number of ancilla qubits.

num_clbits

Return number of classical bits.

num_parameters

Convenience function to get the number of parameter objects in the circuit.

num_qubits

Return number of qubits.

num_state_qubits

The number of state qubits, i.e. the number of bits in each input register.

Return type

int

Returns

The number of state qubits.

parameters

Convenience function to get the parameters defined in the parameter table.

prefix = 'circuit'

qubits

Returns a list of quantum bits in the order that the registers were added.