Logical Circuits#
The class LogicalCircuit
, which is found in the circuits
namespace, is a logical analog of the class
QuantumCircuit
. The LogicalCircuit
class has the same methods and attributes as QuantumCircuit
; however,
there are a few changes in the behavior of some of the methods. As the two classes are very similar, I will give a few
examples of using the LogicalCircuit
class to illustrate their differences.
An instance of a LogicalCircuit
can be created using the following lines:
>>> import pecos as pc
>>> logic = pc.circuits.LogicalCircuit()
Instead of gate symbols, the append
method of the LogicalCircuit
class accepts LogicalGates
directly. Also,
if a LogicalCircuit
contains a single qecc
then a gate location is not needed:
>>> surface = pc.qeccs.Surface4444(distance=3)
>>> logic = pc.circuits.LogicalCircuit()
>>> logic.append(surface.gate("ideal init |0>"))
>>> logic.append(surface.gate("I"))