""" Build the quantum fourier transform (qft) for a desire number of quantum bits using Qiskit framework. This experiment run in IBM Q simulator with 10000 shots. This circuit can be use as a building block to design the Shor's algorithm in quantum computing. As well as, quantum phase estimation among others. . References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fourier_transform https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-algorithms/quantum-fourier-transform.html """ import math import numpy as np import qiskit from qiskit import Aer, ClassicalRegister, QuantumCircuit, QuantumRegister, execute def quantum_fourier_transform(number_of_qubits: int = 3) -> qiskit.result.counts.Counts: """ # >>> quantum_fourier_transform(2) # {'00': 2500, '01': 2500, '11': 2500, '10': 2500} # quantum circuit for number_of_qubits = 3: ┌───┐ qr_0: ──────■──────────────────────■───────┤ H ├─X─ │ ┌───┐ │P(π/2) └───┘ │ qr_1: ──────┼────────■───────┤ H ├─■─────────────┼─ ┌───┐ │P(π/4) │P(π/2) └───┘ │ qr_2: ┤ H ├─■────────■───────────────────────────X─ └───┘ cr: 3/═════════════════════════════════════════════ Args: n : number of qubits Returns: qiskit.result.counts.Counts: distribute counts. >>> quantum_fourier_transform(2) {'00': 2500, '01': 2500, '10': 2500, '11': 2500} >>> quantum_fourier_transform(-1) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: number of qubits must be > 0. >>> quantum_fourier_transform('a') Traceback (most recent call last): ... TypeError: number of qubits must be a integer. >>> quantum_fourier_transform(100) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: number of qubits too large to simulate(>10). >>> quantum_fourier_transform(0.5) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: number of qubits must be exact integer. """ if isinstance(number_of_qubits, str): raise TypeError("number of qubits must be a integer.") if number_of_qubits <= 0: raise ValueError("number of qubits must be > 0.") if math.floor(number_of_qubits) != number_of_qubits: raise ValueError("number of qubits must be exact integer.") if number_of_qubits > 10: raise ValueError("number of qubits too large to simulate(>10).") qr = QuantumRegister(number_of_qubits, "qr") cr = ClassicalRegister(number_of_qubits, "cr") quantum_circuit = QuantumCircuit(qr, cr) counter = number_of_qubits for i in range(counter): quantum_circuit.h(number_of_qubits - i - 1) counter -= 1 for j in range(counter): quantum_circuit.cp(np.pi / 2 ** (counter - j), j, counter) for k in range(number_of_qubits // 2): quantum_circuit.swap(k, number_of_qubits - k - 1) # measure all the qubits quantum_circuit.measure(qr, cr) # simulate with 10000 shots backend = Aer.get_backend("qasm_simulator") job = execute(quantum_circuit, backend, shots=10000) return job.result().get_counts(quantum_circuit) if __name__ == "__main__": print( f"Total count for quantum fourier transform state is: \ {quantum_fourier_transform(3)}" )