QFIBase¶

class QFIBase(qfi_method='lin_comb_full')[source]¶

Bases: qiskit.opflow.gradients.derivative_base.DerivativeBase

Base class for Quantum Fisher Information (QFI).

Compute the Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) given a pure, parameterized quantum state.

The QFI is:

[QFI]kl= Re[〈∂kψ|∂lψ〉−〈∂kψ|ψ〉〈ψ|∂lψ〉] * 4.

Parameters: qfi_method (Union[str, CircuitQFI]) – The method used to compute the state/probability gradient. Can be either a CircuitQFI instance or one of the following pre-defined strings 'lin_comb_full', 'overlap_diag'` or 'overlap_block_diag'`.
Raises: ValueError – if qfi_method is neither a CircuitQFI object nor one of the predefined strings.

Attributes

qfi_method¶

Returns CircuitQFI.