Note

This is the documentation for the current state of the development branch of Qiskit Experiments. The documentation or APIs here can change prior to being released.

Experiment Library (qiskit_experiments.library)

A library of quantum characterization, calibration and verification experiments for calibrating and benchmarking quantum devices. See qiskit_experiments.framework for general information on the framework for running experiments.

Verification Experiments

Experiments for verification and validation of quantum devices.

StandardRB(physical_qubits, lengths[, ...])	An experiment to characterize the error rate of a gate set on a device.
InterleavedRB(interleaved_element, ...[, ...])	An experiment to characterize the error rate of a specific gate on a device.
LayerFidelity(physical_qubits, ...[, ...])	A holistic benchmarking experiment to characterize the full quality of the devices at scale.
TomographyExperiment(circuit[, backend, ...])	Base experiment for quantum state and process tomography.
StateTomography(circuit[, backend, ...])	An experiment to reconstruct the quantum state from measurement data.
ProcessTomography(circuit[, backend, ...])	An experiment to reconstruct the quantum channel from measurement data.
MitigatedStateTomography(circuit[, backend, ...])	A batched experiment to characterize readout error then perform state tomography for doing readout error mitigated state tomography.
MitigatedProcessTomography(circuit[, ...])	A batched experiment to characterize readout error then perform process tomography for doing readout error mitigated process tomography.
QuantumVolume(physical_qubits[, backend, ...])	An experiment to measure the largest random square circuit that can be run on a processor.

Characterization Experiments: Single Qubit

Experiments for characterization of properties of individual qubits. Some experiments also have a calibration experiment version.

T1(physical_qubits, delays[, backend])	An experiment to measure the qubit relaxation time.
T2Hahn(physical_qubits, delays[, ...])	An experiment to measure the dephasing time insensitive to inhomogeneous broadening using Hahn echos.
T2Ramsey(physical_qubits, delays[, backend, ...])	An experiment to measure the Ramsey frequency and the qubit dephasing time sensitive to inhomogeneous broadening.
Tphi(physical_qubits, delays_t1, delays_t2)	An experiment to measure the qubit dephasing rate in the \(x - y\) plane.
QubitSpectroscopy(physical_qubits, frequencies)	A spectroscopy experiment to obtain a frequency sweep of the qubit.
EFSpectroscopy(physical_qubits, frequencies)	A spectroscopy experiment to obtain a frequency sweep of the qubit's e-f transition.
HalfAngle(physical_qubits[, backend])	An experiment class to measure the amount by which sx and x are not parallel.
FineAmplitude(physical_qubits, gate[, ...])	An experiment to determine the optimal pulse amplitude by amplifying gate errors.
FineXAmplitude(physical_qubits[, backend])	A fine amplitude experiment with all the options set for the \(\pi\)-rotation.
FineSXAmplitude(physical_qubits[, backend])	A fine amplitude experiment with all the options set for the \(\pi/2\)-rotation.
Rabi(physical_qubits, schedule[, ...])	An experiment that scans a pulse amplitude to calibrate rotations on the \(|0\rangle\) <-> \(|1\rangle\) transition.
EFRabi(physical_qubits, schedule[, ...])	An experiment that scans the amplitude of a pulse inducing rotations on the \(|1\rangle\) <-> \(|2\rangle\) transition.
RamseyXY(physical_qubits[, backend, delays, ...])	A sign-sensitive experiment to measure the frequency of a qubit.
FineFrequency(physical_qubits, delay_duration)	An experiment to make a fine measurement of the qubit frequency.
ReadoutAngle(physical_qubits[, backend])	An experiment to measure the angle between ground and excited state IQ clusters.
ResonatorSpectroscopy(physical_qubits[, ...])	An experiment to perform frequency spectroscopy of the readout resonator.
RoughDrag(physical_qubits, schedule[, ...])	An experiment that scans the DRAG parameter to find the optimal value.
FineDrag(physical_qubits, gate[, backend])	An experiment that performs fine characterizations of DRAG pulse coefficients.
FineXDrag(physical_qubits[, backend])	Class to fine characterize the DRAG parameter of an X gate.
FineSXDrag(physical_qubits[, backend])	Class to fine characterize the DRAG parameter of an \(SX\) gate.
MultiStateDiscrimination(physical_qubits[, ...])	An experiment that discriminates between the first \(n\) energy states.
StarkRamseyXY(physical_qubits[, backend])	A sign-sensitive experiment to measure the frequency of a qubit under a pulsed Stark tone.
StarkRamseyXYAmpScan(physical_qubits[, backend])	A fast characterization of Stark frequency shift by varying Stark tone amplitude.
StarkP1Spectroscopy(physical_qubits[, backend])	P1 spectroscopy experiment with Stark tone.

Characterization Experiments: Two Qubits

Experiments for characterization of properties of two qubit interactions.

CrossResonanceHamiltonian(physical_qubits[, ...])	Cross resonance Hamiltonian tomography experiment.
EchoedCrossResonanceHamiltonian(physical_qubits)	Echoed cross resonance Hamiltonian tomography experiment.
ZZRamsey(physical_qubits[, backend])	An experiment to characterize the static \(ZZ\) interaction for a qubit pair.
FineZXAmplitude(physical_qubits[, backend])	A fine amplitude experiment for the RZXGate(np.pi / 2).

Characterization Experiments: Mitigation

Experiments for characterizing and mitigating readout error.

LocalReadoutError([physical_qubits, backend])	An experiment for characterizing local readout error.
CorrelatedReadoutError([physical_qubits, ...])	Correlated readout error characterization experiment.

Calibration Experiments

Experiments for pulse level calibration of quantum gates. These experiments are usually run with a Calibrations class instance to manage parameters and pulse schedules. See Calibrations: Schedules and gate parameters from experiments for examples.

RoughFrequencyCal(physical_qubits, ...[, ...])	A calibration experiment that runs QubitSpectroscopy to calibrate the qubit transition frequency.
RoughEFFrequencyCal(physical_qubits, ...[, ...])	A calibration experiment that runs QubitSpectroscopy for the \(|1\rangle\) <-> \(|2\rangle\) transition.
FrequencyCal(physical_qubits, calibrations)	A qubit frequency calibration experiment based on the Ramsey XY experiment.
FineFrequencyCal(physical_qubits, calibrations)	A calibration version of the fine frequency experiment.
RoughDragCal(physical_qubits, calibrations)	A calibration version of the RoughDrag experiment.
FineXDragCal(physical_qubits, calibrations)	Fine DRAG calibration of X gate.
FineSXDragCal(physical_qubits, calibrations)	Fine DRAG calibration of X gate.
FineDragCal(physical_qubits, calibrations, ...)	A calibration version of the fine DRAG experiment.
FineAmplitudeCal(physical_qubits, ...[, ...])	A calibration version of the FineAmplitude experiment.
FineXAmplitudeCal(physical_qubits, ...[, ...])	A calibration experiment to calibrate the amplitude of the X schedule.
FineSXAmplitudeCal(physical_qubits, ...[, ...])	A calibration experiment to calibrate the amplitude of the SX schedule.
HalfAngleCal(physical_qubits, calibrations)	Calibration version of the HalfAngle experiment.
RoughAmplitudeCal(physical_qubits, calibrations)	A calibration version of the Rabi experiment.
RoughXSXAmplitudeCal(physical_qubits, ...[, ...])	A rough amplitude calibration of x and sx gates.
EFRoughXSXAmplitudeCal(physical_qubits, ...)	A rough amplitude calibration of \(X\) and \(SX\) gates on the \(|1\rangle\) <-> \(|2\rangle\) transition.