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 and later, Jens Koch and Peter Groszkowski
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from typing import Union

import numpy as np
import scipy as sp

from numpy import ndarray
from scipy.sparse.csc import csc_matrix
from scipy.sparse.dia import dia_matrix


[docs]def annihilation(dimension: int) -> ndarray: """ Returns a dense matrix of size dimension x dimension representing the annihilation operator in number basis. """ offdiag_elements = np.sqrt(range(1, dimension)) return np.diagflat(offdiag_elements, 1)
[docs]def creation(dimension: int) -> ndarray: """ Returns a dense matrix of size dimension x dimension representing the creation operator in number basis. """ return annihilation(dimension).T
[docs]def number(dimension: int, prefactor: Union[float, complex] = None) -> ndarray: """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 ---------- prefactor: prefactor multiplying the number operator matrix Returns ------- number operator matrix, size dimension x dimension """ diag_elements = np.arange(dimension, dtype=np.float_) if prefactor: diag_elements *= prefactor return np.diagflat(diag_elements)
[docs]def annihilation_sparse(dimension: int) -> csc_matrix: """Returns a matrix of size dimension x dimension representing the annihilation operator in the format of a scipy sparse.csc_matrix. """ offdiag_elements = np.sqrt(range(dimension)) return sp.sparse.dia_matrix( (offdiag_elements, [1]), shape=(dimension, dimension) ).tocsc()
[docs]def creation_sparse(dimension: int) -> csc_matrix: """Returns a matrix of size dimension x dimension representing the creation operator in the format of a scipy sparse.csc_matrix """ return annihilation_sparse(dimension).transpose().tocsc()
[docs]def number_sparse( dimension: int, prefactor: Union[float, complex] = None ) -> dia_matrix: """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 ---------- prefactor: prefactor multiplying the number operator matrix Returns ------- 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: int, j2: int, dimension: int) -> csc_matrix: """The Hubbard operator :math:`|j1\\rangle>\\langle j2|` is returned as a matrix of linear size dimension. Parameters ---------- dimension: j1, j2: indices of the two states labeling the Hubbard operator Returns ------- 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")
def sigma_x() -> np.ndarray: return np.asarray([[0.0, 1.0], [1.0, 0.0]]) def sigma_y() -> np.ndarray: return np.asarray([[0.0, -1j], [1j, 0.0]]) def sigma_z() -> np.ndarray: return np.asarray([[1.0, 0.0], [0.0, -1.0]]) def sigma_plus() -> np.ndarray: return np.asarray([[0.0, 1.0], [0.0, 0.0]]) def sigma_minus() -> np.ndarray: return sigma_plus().T