Source code for pennylane.transforms.optimization.commute_controlled

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"""Transforms for pushing commuting gates through targets/control qubits."""

from pennylane.tape import QuantumScript, QuantumScriptBatch
from pennylane.transforms import transform
from pennylane.typing import PostprocessingFn
from pennylane.wires import Wires

from .optimization_utils import find_next_gate


def _commute_controlled_right(op_list):
    """Push commuting single qubit gates to the right of controlled gates.

    Args:
        op_list (list[Operation]): The initial list of operations.

    Returns:
        list[Operation]: The modified list of operations with all single-qubit
        gates as far right as possible.
    """
    # We will go through the list backwards; whenever we find a single-qubit
    # gate, we will extract it and push it through 2-qubit gates as far as
    # possible to the right.
    current_location = len(op_list) - 1

    while current_location >= 0:
        current_gate = op_list[current_location]

        # We are looking only at the gates that can be pushed through
        # controls/targets; these are single-qubit gates with the basis
        # property specified.
        if getattr(current_gate, "basis", None) is None or len(current_gate.wires) != 1:
            current_location -= 1
            continue

        # Find the next gate that contains an overlapping wire
        next_gate_idx = find_next_gate(current_gate.wires, op_list[current_location + 1 :])

        new_location = current_location

        # Loop as long as a valid next gate exists
        while next_gate_idx is not None:
            next_gate = op_list[new_location + next_gate_idx + 1]

            # Only go ahead if information is available
            if getattr(next_gate, "basis", None) is None:
                break

            # If the next gate does not have control_wires defined, it is not
            # controlled so we can't push through.
            if len(next_gate.control_wires) == 0:
                break
            shared_controls = Wires.shared_wires(
                [Wires(current_gate.wires), next_gate.control_wires]
            )

            # Case 1: overlap is on the control wires. Only Z-type gates go through
            if len(shared_controls) > 0:
                if current_gate.basis == "Z":
                    new_location += next_gate_idx + 1
                else:
                    break

            # Case 2: since we know the gates overlap somewhere, and it's a
            # single-qubit gate, if it wasn't on a control it's the target.
            else:
                if current_gate.basis == next_gate.basis:
                    new_location += next_gate_idx + 1
                else:
                    break

            next_gate_idx = find_next_gate(current_gate.wires, op_list[new_location + 1 :])

        # After we have gone as far as possible, move the gate to new location
        op_list.insert(new_location + 1, current_gate)
        op_list.pop(current_location)
        current_location -= 1

    return op_list


def _commute_controlled_left(op_list):
    """Push commuting single qubit gates to the left of controlled gates.

    Args:
        op_list (list[Operation]): The initial list of operations.

    Returns:
        list[Operation]: The modified list of operations with all single-qubit
        gates as far left as possible.
    """
    # We will go through the list forwards; whenever we find a single-qubit
    # gate, we will extract it and push it through 2-qubit gates as far as
    # possible back to the left.
    current_location = 0

    while current_location < len(op_list):
        current_gate = op_list[current_location]

        if current_gate.basis is None or len(current_gate.wires) != 1:
            current_location += 1
            continue

        # Pass a backwards copy of the list
        prev_gate_idx = find_next_gate(current_gate.wires, op_list[:current_location][::-1])

        new_location = current_location

        while prev_gate_idx is not None:
            prev_gate = op_list[new_location - prev_gate_idx - 1]

            if prev_gate.basis is None:
                break

            if len(prev_gate.control_wires) == 0:
                break
            shared_controls = Wires.shared_wires(
                [Wires(current_gate.wires), prev_gate.control_wires]
            )

            if len(shared_controls) > 0:
                if current_gate.basis == "Z":
                    new_location = new_location - prev_gate_idx - 1
                else:
                    break

            else:
                if current_gate.basis == prev_gate.basis:
                    new_location = new_location - prev_gate_idx - 1
                else:
                    break

            prev_gate_idx = find_next_gate(current_gate.wires, op_list[:new_location][::-1])

        op_list.pop(current_location)
        op_list.insert(new_location, current_gate)
        current_location += 1

    return op_list


[docs]@transform def commute_controlled( tape: QuantumScript, direction="right" ) -> tuple[QuantumScriptBatch, PostprocessingFn]: """Quantum transform to move commuting gates past control and target qubits of controlled operations. Args: tape (QNode or QuantumTape or Callable): A quantum circuit. direction (str): The direction in which to move single-qubit gates. Options are "right" (default), or "left". Single-qubit gates will be pushed through controlled operations as far as possible in the specified direction. Returns: qnode (QNode) or quantum function (Callable) or tuple[List[QuantumTape], function]: The transformed circuit as described in :func:`qml.transform <pennylane.transform>`. **Example** >>> dev = qml.device('default.qubit', wires=3) You can apply the transform directly on :class:`QNode`: .. code-block:: python @partial(commute_controlled, direction="right") @qml.qnode(device=dev) def circuit(theta): qml.CZ(wires=[0, 2]) qml.X(2) qml.S(wires=0) qml.CNOT(wires=[0, 1]) qml.Y(1) qml.CRY(theta, wires=[0, 1]) qml.PhaseShift(theta/2, wires=0) qml.Toffoli(wires=[0, 1, 2]) qml.T(wires=0) qml.RZ(theta/2, wires=1) return qml.expval(qml.Z(0)) >>> circuit(0.5) 0.9999999999999999 .. details:: :title: Usage Details You can also apply it on quantum function. .. code-block:: python def qfunc(theta): qml.CZ(wires=[0, 2]) qml.X(2) qml.S(wires=0) qml.CNOT(wires=[0, 1]) qml.Y(1) qml.CRY(theta, wires=[0, 1]) qml.PhaseShift(theta/2, wires=0) qml.Toffoli(wires=[0, 1, 2]) qml.T(wires=0) qml.RZ(theta/2, wires=1) return qml.expval(qml.Z(0)) >>> qnode = qml.QNode(qfunc, dev) >>> print(qml.draw(qnode)(0.5)) 0: ─╭●──S─╭●────╭●─────────Rϕ(0.25)─╭●──T────────┤ <Z> 1: ─│─────╰X──Y─╰RY(0.50)───────────├●──RZ(0.25)─┤ 2: ─╰Z──X───────────────────────────╰X───────────┤ Diagonal gates on either side of control qubits do not affect the outcome of controlled gates; thus we can push all the single-qubit gates on the first qubit together on the right (and fuse them if desired). Similarly, X gates commute with the target of ``CNOT`` and ``Toffoli`` (and ``PauliY`` with ``CRY``). We can use the transform to push single-qubit gates as far as possible through the controlled operations: >>> optimized_qfunc = commute_controlled(qfunc, direction="right") >>> optimized_qnode = qml.QNode(optimized_qfunc, dev) >>> print(qml.draw(optimized_qnode)(0.5)) 0: ─╭●─╭●─╭●───────────╭●──S─────────Rϕ(0.25)──T─┤ <Z> 1: ─│──╰X─╰RY(0.50)──Y─├●──RZ(0.25)──────────────┤ 2: ─╰Z─────────────────╰X──X─────────────────────┤ """ if direction not in ("left", "right"): raise ValueError("Direction for commute_controlled must be 'left' or 'right'") if direction == "right": op_list = _commute_controlled_right(tape.operations) else: op_list = _commute_controlled_left(tape.operations) new_tape = type(tape)(op_list, tape.measurements, shots=tape.shots) def null_postprocessing(results): """A postprocesing function returned by a transform that only converts the batch of results into a result for a single ``QuantumTape``. """ return results[0] return [new_tape], null_postprocessing