qml.pauli.PauliWord

class PauliWord(mapping)

Bases: dict

Immutable dictionary used to represent a Pauli Word, associating wires with their respective operators. Can be constructed from a standard dictionary.

>>> w = PauliWord({"a": 'X', 2: 'Y', 3: 'Z'})
>>> w
X(a) @ Y(2) @ Z(3)

Attributes

wires

Track wires in a PauliWord.

wires

Track wires in a PauliWord.

Methods

hamiltonian([wire_order])	Return Hamiltonian representing the PauliWord.
map_wires(wire_map)	Return a new PauliWord with the wires mapped.
operation([wire_order, get_as_tensor])	Returns a native PennyLane Operation representing the PauliWord.
to_mat(wire_order[, format])	Returns the matrix representation.
update(_PauliWord__m, **kwargs)	Restrict updating PW after instantiation.

hamiltonian(wire_order=None)

Return Hamiltonian representing the PauliWord.

map_wires(wire_map)

Return a new PauliWord with the wires mapped.

operation(wire_order=None, get_as_tensor=False)

Returns a native PennyLane Operation representing the PauliWord.

to_mat(wire_order, format='dense')

Returns the matrix representation.

Keyword Arguments

• wire_order (iterable or None) – The order of qubits in the tensor product.

• format (str) – The format of the matrix (“dense” by default), if not a dense matrix, then the format for the sparse representation of the matrix.

Returns

Matrix representation of the Pauliword

Return type

(Union[NumpyArray, ScipySparseArray])

Raises

ValueError – Can’t get the matrix of an empty PauliWord.

update(_PauliWord__m, **kwargs)

Restrict updating PW after instantiation.

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