Is there any function I can call to visualize a stim circuit?
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Since v1.10, you can use stim.Circuit.diagram to visualize the circuit.
import stim
circuit = stim.Circuit("""
QUBIT_COORDS(0, 0) 0
QUBIT_COORDS(0, 1) 1
QUBIT_COORDS(1, 0) 2
QUBIT_COORDS(1, 1) 3
R 0 1 2 3
H 0 2
CNOT 0 1
CNOT 2 3
M 0 1 2 3
""")
print(circuit.diagram())
q0: -QUBIT_COORDS(0,0)-R-H-@-M:rec[0]- | q1: -QUBIT_COORDS(0,1)-R---X-M:rec[1]- q2: -QUBIT_COORDS(1,0)-R-H-@-M:rec[2]- | q3: -QUBIT_COORDS(1,1)-R---X-M:rec[3]-
You can also get an SVG image of the timeline:
circuit.to_diagram(type="timeline-svg")
In Jupyter notebooks this SVG will display inline. Otherwise you have to print it to a .svg file then open it.
or a 3d model, optionally embedded into a viewer that can be opened in a web browser:
# for this one you really want to have specified qubit coords
circuit.to_diagram(type="timeline-3d-html")
In Jupyter notebooks this viewer will display inline in the cell output. Otherwise you have to print it to a .html file then open it.
The diagram types that are currently available are:
timeline-text
timeline-svg
timeline-3d
timeline-3d-html
match-graph-svg
match-graph-3d
match-graph-3d-html
detector-slice-text
detector-slice-svg
You can also use the stimcirq package to convert into a cirq circuit and get diagrams that way (e.g. with the cirq_web package).
answered Apr 1, 2022 at 5:43
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$\begingroup$ I notice when I have detectors in a stim circuit, the 3d visualization of
cirq_webcan not work properly. Is that true I must delete all the detectors for visualization withcirq_web? $\endgroup$– InmCommented Apr 1, 2022 at 6:33 -
$\begingroup$ @Inm That sounds like a bug in
cirq_webto me; it should be ignoring operations with no targets. But yes, filtering out the bad instructions would avoid the problem. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 1, 2022 at 8:21 -
$\begingroup$ @Inm I reported the bug: github.com/quantumlib/Cirq/issues/5172 $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 1, 2022 at 8:28
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You can use stimcirq to convert your Stim circuit into a Cirq circuit then visualize it:
import stim
import stimcirq
cirq_circuit = stimcirq.stim_circuit_to_cirq_circuit(stim_circuit)
print(cirq_circuit)
answered Apr 1, 2022 at 5:38