Source code for scqubits.core.operators

# operators.py
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# This file is part of scqubits.
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#    Copyright (c) 2019, Jens Koch and Peter Groszkowski
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#    This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
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import numpy as np
import scipy as sp


[docs]def annihilation(dimension): """ Returns a dense matrix of size dimension x dimension representing the annihilation operator in number basis. Parameters ---------- dimension: int Returns ------- ndarray annihilation operator matrix, size dimension x dimension """ offdiag_elements = np.sqrt(range(1, dimension)) return np.diagflat(offdiag_elements, 1)
[docs]def creation(dimension): """ Returns a dense matrix of size dimension x dimension representing the creation operator in number basis. Parameters ---------- dimension: int Returns ------- ndarray creation operator matrix, size dimension x dimension """ return annihilation(dimension).T
[docs]def number(dimension, prefactor=None): """Number operator matrix of size dimension x dimension in sparse matrix representation. An additional prefactor can be directly included in the generation of the matrix by supplying 'prefactor'. Parameters ---------- dimension: int prefactor: float or complex, optional prefactor multiplying the number operator matrix Returns ------- ndarray number operator matrix, size dimension x dimension """ diag_elements = np.arange(dimension) if prefactor: diag_elements *= prefactor return np.diagflat(diag_elements)
[docs]def annihilation_sparse(dimension): """Returns a matrix of size dimension x dimension representing the annihilation operator in the format of a scipy sparse.csc_matrix. Parameters ---------- dimension: int Returns ------- sparse.csc_matrix sparse annihilation operator matrix, size dimension x dimension """ offdiag_elements = np.sqrt(range(dimension)) return sp.sparse.dia_matrix((offdiag_elements, [1]), shape=(dimension, dimension)).tocsc()
[docs]def creation_sparse(dimension): """Returns a matrix of size dimension x dimension representing the creation operator in the format of a scipy sparse.csc_matrix Parameters ---------- dimension: int Returns ------- sparse.csc_matrix sparse annihilation operator matrix, size dimension x dimension """ return annihilation_sparse(dimension).transpose().tocsc()
[docs]def number_sparse(dimension, prefactor=None): """Number operator matrix of size dimension x dimension in sparse matrix representation. An additional prefactor can be directly included in the generation of the matrix by supplying 'prefactor'. Parameters ---------- dimension: int prefactor: float or complex, optional prefactor multiplying the number operator matrix Returns ------- sparse.csc_matrix sparse number operator matrix, size dimension x dimension """ diag_elements = np.arange(dimension, dtype=np.float_) if prefactor: diag_elements *= prefactor return sp.sparse.dia_matrix((diag_elements, [0]), shape=(dimension, dimension), dtype=np.float_)
[docs]def hubbard_sparse(j1, j2, dimension): """The Hubbard operator :math:`|j1\\rangle>\\langle j2|` is returned as a matrix of linear size dimension. Parameters ---------- dimension: int j1, j2: int indices of the two states labeling the Hubbard operator Returns ------- sparse.csc_matrix sparse number operator matrix, size dimension x dimension """ hubbardmat = sp.sparse.dok_matrix((dimension, dimension), dtype=np.float_) hubbardmat[j1, j2] = 1.0 return hubbardmat.asformat('csc')