# netket.operator.PauliStrings#

class netket.operator.PauliStrings#

A Hamiltonian consisting of the sum of products of Pauli operators.

Inheritance
__init__(hilbert, operators=None, weights=None, *, cutoff=1e-10, dtype=<class 'complex'>)[source]#

Constructs a new PauliStrings operator given a set of Pauli operators. This class has two possible forms for initialization: PauliStrings(hilbert, operators, ...) or PauliStrings(operators, ...). When no hilbert argument is passed, the hilbert defaults to Qubit, where the number of qubits is automatically deduced from the operators.

Parameters

Examples

Constructs a new PauliStrings operator X_0*X_1 + 3.*Z_0*Z_1 with both construction schemes.

>>> import netket as nk
>>> operators, weights = ['XX','ZZ'], [1,3]
>>> op = nk.operator.PauliStrings(operators, weights)
>>> op.hilbert
Qubit(N=2)
>>> op.hilbert.size
2
>>> hilbert = nk.hilbert.Spin(1/2, 2)
>>> op = nk.operator.PauliStrings(hilbert, operators, weights)
>>> op.hilbert
Spin(s=1/2, N=2)

Attributes
H#

Returns the Conjugate-Transposed operator

Return type

AbstractOperator

T#

Returns the transposed operator

Return type

AbstractOperator

dtype#

The dtype of the operator’s matrix elements ⟨σ|Ô|σ’⟩.

Return type

Any

hilbert#

The hilbert space associated to this operator.

Return type

AbstractHilbert

is_hermitian#

Returns true if this operator is hermitian.

Return type

bool

max_conn_size#

The maximum number of non zero ⟨x|O|x’⟩ for every x.

Return type

int

size#

The total number number of local degrees of freedom.

Return type

int

Methods
__call__(v)#

Call self as a function.

Return type

ndarray

Parameters

v (numpy.ndarray) –

apply(v)#
Return type

ndarray

Parameters

v (numpy.ndarray) –

collect()#

Returns a guaranteed concrete instance of an operator.

As some operations on operators return lazy wrappers (such as transpose, hermitian conjugate…), this is used to obtain a guaranteed non-lazy operator.

Return type

AbstractOperator

conj(*, concrete=False)#
Return type

AbstractOperator

conjugate(*, concrete=False)#

Returns the complex-conjugate of this operator.

Parameters

concrete – if True returns a concrete operator and not a lazy wrapper

Return type

AbstractOperator

Returns

if concrete is not True, self or a lazy wrapper; the complex-conjugated operator otherwise

static from_openfermion(hilbert, of_qubit_operator=None, *, n_qubits=None)[source]#

Converts an openfermion QubitOperator into a netket PauliStrings.

The hilbert first argument can be dropped, see __init__ for details and default value

Parameters
Return type

PauliStrings

get_conn(x)#

Finds the connected elements of the Operator. Starting from a given quantum number x, it finds all other quantum numbers x’ such that the matrix element $$O(x,x')$$ is different from zero. In general there will be several different connected states x’ satisfying this condition, and they are denoted here $$x'(k)$$, for $$k=0,1...N_{\mathrm{connected}}$$. :type x: ndarray :param x: An array of shape (hilbert.size) containing the quantum numbers x. :type x: array

Returns

The connected states x’ of shape (N_connected,hilbert.size) array: An array containing the matrix elements $$O(x,x')$$ associated to each x’.

Return type

matrix

Raises

ValueError – If the given quantum number is not compatible with the hilbert space.

Parameters

x (numpy.ndarray) –

Finds the connected elements of the Operator. Starting from a given quantum number x, it finds all other quantum numbers x’ such that the matrix element $$O(x,x')$$ is different from zero. In general there will be several different connected states x’ satisfying this condition, and they are denoted here $$x'(k)$$, for $$k=0,1...N_{\mathrm{connected}}$$.

This is a batched version, where x is a matrix of shape (batch_size,hilbert.size).

Parameters
• x (matrix) – A matrix of shape (batch_size,hilbert.size) containing the batch of quantum numbers x.

• sections (array) – An array of size (batch_size) useful to unflatten the output of this function. See numpy.split for the meaning of sections.

Returns

The connected states x’, flattened together in a single matrix. array: An array containing the matrix elements $$O(x,x')$$ associated to each x’.

Return type

matrix

Finds the connected elements of the Operator.

Starting from a batch of quantum numbers $$x={x_1, ... x_n}$$ of size $$B \times M$$ where $$B$$ size of the batch and $$M$$ size of the hilbert space, finds all states $$y_i^1, ..., y_i^K$$ connected to every $$x_i$$.

Returns a matrix of size $$B \times K_{max} \times M$$ where $$K_{max}$$ is the maximum number of connections for every $$y_i$$.

Parameters

x (ndarray) – A N-tensor of shape $$(...,hilbert.size)$$ containing the batch/batches of quantum numbers $$x$$.

Returns

The connected states x’, in a N+1-tensor and an N-tensor containing the matrix elements $$O(x,x')$$ associated to each x’ for every batch.

Return type

(x_primes, mels)

static identity(hilbert, **kwargs)[source]#
Parameters

hilbert (netket.hilbert.AbstractHilbert) –

n_conn(x, out=None)#

Return the number of states connected to x.

Parameters
• x (matrix) – A matrix of shape (batch_size,hilbert.size) containing the batch of quantum numbers x.

• out (array) – If None an output array is allocated.

Returns

The number of connected states x’ for each x[i].

Return type

array

to_dense()#

Returns the dense matrix representation of the operator. Note that, in general, the size of the matrix is exponential in the number of quantum numbers, and this operation should thus only be performed for low-dimensional Hilbert spaces or sufficiently sparse operators.

This method requires an indexable Hilbert space.

Return type

ndarray

Returns

The dense matrix representation of the operator as a Numpy array.

to_linear_operator()#
to_qobj()#

Convert the operator to a qutip’s Qobj.

Returns

A qutip.Qobj object.

to_sparse()#

Returns the sparse matrix representation of the operator. Note that, in general, the size of the matrix is exponential in the number of quantum numbers, and this operation should thus only be performed for low-dimensional Hilbert spaces or sufficiently sparse operators.

This method requires an indexable Hilbert space.

Return type

csr_matrix

Returns

The sparse matrix representation of the operator.

transpose(*, concrete=False)#

Returns the transpose of this operator.

Parameters

concrete – if True returns a concrete operator and not a lazy wrapper

Return type

AbstractOperator

Returns

if concrete is not True, self or a lazy wrapper; the transposed operator otherwise