qrisp.QuantumVariable.duplicate#

QuantumVariable.duplicate(name: str | None = None, qs=None, init=False, qubits=None)[source]#

Duplicate a QuantumVariable.

Duplicates the QuantumVariable in the sense that a new QuantumVariable is created with same type and parameters but initialized in the \(\ket{0}\) state.

Parameters:

namestring, optional: A unique name to identify that QuantumVariable. If not given, a name will be generated.
qsQuantumSession, optional: A QuantumSession, where the result should be registered. If not given, a new QuantumSession will be generated.
initbool, optional: If set to True, the init_from method of the result will be called on self. The default is False.
qubitslist[Qubit] | DynamicQubitArray, optional: Qubits to initialize the duplicated quantum variable from. If not provided self.size is used for qubits extraction. The object is used as the duplicate’s register as is (not copied), so passing another QuantumVariable’s reg makes both share it: deleting, extending or reducing the duplicate also affects that QuantumVariable.

Returns:

duplicateType of self: The duplicated QuantumVariable.

Raises:

Exception: If merging the duplicate’s quantum session with qs fails.
TracingModeError: If init is True while tracing, since initializing from another QuantumVariable is not supported in a TracingQuantumSession.
Exception: If init is True and the provided qubits are not fresh.

Examples

We create a QuantumFloat and duplicate:

>>> from qrisp import QuantumFloat
>>> qf_0 = QuantumFloat(4, signed = False)
>>> qf_1 = qf_0.duplicate()
>>> type(qf_1)
qrisp.qtypes.quantum_float.QuantumFloat
>>> qf_1.size
4