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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.
QuantumVolume¶
- class QuantumVolume(physical_qubits, backend=None, trials=100, seed=None, simulation_backend=None)[source]¶
An experiment to measure the largest random square circuit that can be run on a processor.
Overview
Quantum Volume (QV) is a single-number metric that can be measured using a concrete protocol on near-term quantum computers of modest size. The QV method quantifies the largest random circuit of equal width and depth that the computer successfully implements. Quantum computing systems with high-fidelity operations, high connectivity, large calibrated gate sets, and circuit rewriting toolchains are expected to have higher quantum volumes.
The Quantum Volume is determined by the largest circuit depth
, and equals to . See Qiskit Textbook for an explanation on the QV protocol.In the QV experiment we generate
QuantumVolume
circuits on qubits, which contain layers, where each layer consists of random 2-qubit unitary gates from , followed by a random permutation on the qubits. Then these circuits run on the quantum backend and on an ideal simulator (eitherAerSimulator
orStatevector
).A depth
QV circuit is successful if it has ‘mean heavy-output probability’ > 2/3 with confidence level > 0.977 (corresponding to z_value = 2), and at least 100 trials have been ran.See
QuantumVolumeAnalysis
documentation for additional information on QV experiment analysis.References
[1] Andrew W. Cross, Lev S. Bishop, Sarah Sheldon, Paul D. Nation, Jay M. Gambetta, Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits, Phys. Rev. A 100, 032328 (2019), doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.032328 (open)
[2] Petar Jurcevic, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Lev S. Bishop, Isaac Lauer, Daniela F. Bogorin, Markus Brink, Lauren Capelluto, Oktay Günlük, Toshinari Itoko, Naoki Kanazawa, Abhinav Kandala, George A. Keefe, Kevin Krsulich, William Landers, Eric P. Lewandowski, Douglas T. McClure, Giacomo Nannicini, Adinath Narasgond, Hasan M. Nayfeh, Emily Pritchett, Mary Beth Rothwell, Srikanth Srinivasan, Neereja Sundaresan, Cindy Wang, Ken X. Wei, Christopher J. Wood, Jeng-Bang Yau, Eric J. Zhang, Oliver E. Dial, Jerry M. Chow, Jay M. Gambetta, Demonstration of quantum volume 64 on a superconducting quantum computing system, Quantum Sci. Technol. 6 025020 (2021), doi: 10.1088/2058-9565/abe519 (open)
Analysis class reference
Experiment options
These options can be set by the
set_experiment_options()
method.- Options
Defined in the class
QuantumVolume
:trials (int)
Default value:100
Optional, number of times to generate new Quantum Volume circuits and calculate their heavy output.seed (None or int or SeedSequence or BitGenerator or Generator)
Default value:None
A seed used to initializenumpy.random.default_rng
when generating circuits. Thedefault_rng
will be initialized with this seed value everytimecircuits()
is called.
Defined in the class
BaseExperiment
:max_circuits (Optional[int])
Default value:None
The maximum number of circuits per job when running an experiment on a backend.
Initialization
Initialize a quantum volume experiment.
- Parameters:
physical_qubits (
Sequence
[int
]) – list of physical qubits for the experiment.backend (
Optional
[Backend
]) – Optional, the backend to run the experiment on.trials (
Optional
[int
]) – The number of trials to run the quantum volume circuit.seed (
Union
[int
,SeedSequence
,BitGenerator
,Generator
,None
]) – Optional, seed used to initializenumpy.random.default_rng
when generating circuits. Thedefault_rng
will be initialized with this seed value everytimecircuits()
is called.simulation_backend (
Optional
[Backend
]) – The simulator backend to use to generate the expected results. the simulator must have a ‘save_probabilities’ method. If NoneAerSimulator
simulator will be used (in caseAerSimulator
is not installedqiskit.quantum_info.Statevector
will be used).
Attributes
Return the analysis instance for the experiment
Return the backend for the experiment
Return the options for the experiment.
Return experiment type.
Return the number of qubits for the experiment.
Return the device qubits for the experiment.
Return options values for the experiment
run()
method.Return the transpiler options for the
run()
method.Methods
Return a list of Quantum Volume circuits.
Return the config dataclass for this experiment
Return a copy of the experiment
QuantumVolume.from_config
(config)Initialize an experiment from experiment config
QuantumVolume.run
([backend, analysis, timeout])Run an experiment and perform analysis.
QuantumVolume.set_experiment_options
(**fields)Set the experiment options.
QuantumVolume.set_run_options
(**fields)Set options values for the experiment
run()
method.QuantumVolume.set_transpile_options
(**fields)Set the transpiler options for
run()
method.