Source code for mrmustard.lab.circuit_components_utils.trace_out

# Copyright 2024 Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc.

# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at

#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

"""The class representing a trace out operation."""

from __future__ import annotations

from numpy.typing import ArrayLike

from mrmustard.physics.ansatz_factory import AnsatzFactory
from mrmustard.utils.typing import Scalar

from ...physics.wires import ReprEnum, Wires
from ..circuit_components import CircuitComponent
from ..transformations.builtins import identity_gate

__all__ = ["TraceOut"]


[docs] class TraceOut(CircuitComponent): r"""A circuit component to perform trace-out operations. It has input wires on both the ket and bra sides, but no output wires. Its representation is the same as that of the identity channel. >>> from mrmustard.lab import * >>> from mrmustard import math >>> # initialize a multi-mode state >>> state = Coherent(0, alpha=1) >> Coherent(1, alpha=1) >> Coherent(2, alpha=1) >>> # trace out some of the modes >>> assert state >> TraceOut(0) == (Coherent(1, alpha=1) >> Coherent(2, alpha=1)).dm() >>> assert state >> TraceOut((1, 2)) == Coherent(0, alpha=1).dm() >>> # use the trace out to estimate expectation values of operators >>> op = Dgate(0, alpha=1) >>> expectation = state.dm().contract(op) >> TraceOut((0, 1, 2)) >>> assert math.allclose(expectation, state.expectation(op)) Args: modes: The modes to trace out. """ def __init__( self, modes: int | tuple[int, ...], ): modes = (modes,) if isinstance(modes, int) else modes super().__init__( ansatz_factory=AnsatzFactory( ansatz_dict={ReprEnum.BARGMANN: (identity_gate, ("n_modes", "lin_sup"))}, n_modes=len(modes), ), wires=Wires(set(), set(modes), set(), set(modes)), name="Tr", ) def __custom_rrshift__( self, other: CircuitComponent | Scalar | ArrayLike ) -> CircuitComponent | Scalar | ArrayLike: r"""A custom ``>>`` operator for the ``TraceOut`` component. It allows ``TraceOut`` to carry the method that processes ``other >> TraceOut``. We know that the trace in Bargmann is a Gaussian integral, and in Fock it's a trace (rather than an inner product with the identity). So we write two shortcuts here, and ``__rrshift__`` will be called first if present in the ``__rshift__`` method of the first object (``other`` here). """ from ..states import DM, Ket # noqa: PLC0415 wires_to_trace = other.wires.output[self.wires.modes] if len(wires_to_trace) == 0: return other if not wires_to_trace.ket or not wires_to_trace.bra: try: wires_out, _ = (other.adjoint.wires + other.wires) @ self.wires ansatz = other.ansatz.conj.contract( other.ansatz, (wires_to_trace.indices, wires_to_trace.indices) ) except ValueError as e: raise ValueError("Component wires are incompatible with TraceOut.") from e else: ansatz = other.ansatz.trace(wires_to_trace.bra.indices, wires_to_trace.ket.indices) wires_out, _ = other.wires @ self.wires if len(wires_out) == 0: return ansatz.scalar if isinstance(other, (DM, Ket)): return DM._from_attributes(ansatz, wires_out) return CircuitComponent._from_attributes(ansatz, wires_out)