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Expression of type Gate

from the theory of proveit.physics.quantum.QPE

In [1]:
import proveit
# Automation is not needed when building an expression:
proveit.defaults.automation = False # This will speed things up.
proveit.defaults.inline_pngs = False # Makes files smaller.
%load_expr # Load the stored expression as 'stored_expr'
# import Expression classes needed to build the expression
from proveit.physics.quantum import I
from proveit.physics.quantum.circuits import Gate
In [2]:
# build up the expression from sub-expressions
expr = Gate(operation = I).with_implicit_representation()
expr:
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# check that the built expression is the same as the stored expression
assert expr == stored_expr
assert expr._style_id == stored_expr._style_id
print("Passed sanity check: expr matches stored_expr")
Passed sanity check: expr matches stored_expr
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# Show the LaTeX representation of the expression for convenience if you need it.
print(stored_expr.latex())
\begin{array}{c} \Qcircuit@C=1em @R=.7em{
& & \qw & \qw 
} \end{array}
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stored_expr.style_options()
namedescriptiondefaultcurrent valuerelated methods
representationThe 'implicit' option formats the identity operation as a quantum wire versus an 'explicit' gate (box) applying I.implicitimplicit
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# display the expression information
stored_expr.expr_info()
 core typesub-expressionsexpression
0Operationoperator: 1
operands: 2
1Literal
2NamedExprsoperation: 3
3Literal