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For computation, I use N working qubits and M ancilla qubits.

qubits = QuantumRegister(N, name='q')
ancilla = QuantumRegister(M, name='anc')
circuit = QuantumCircuit(qubits, ancilla)

Then at the end of a program to get state vector I do:

result = execute(circuit, Aer.backend, shots=shots).result()
return result.get_statevector(circuit)

Because of ancilla qubits are usually used for computation/uncomputation steps it means that the end states of them are $|0..0 \rangle$ (at least in some cases) and I am not interested in them due to unnessasary information about M ancilla qubits contained in get_statevector(circuit).

Is it possible to get state vector so it will show amplitudes only for N working qubit?

I have an idea to solve this equation to find $S_N$ (state vector of N working qubits): $$ S_N \otimes I_M = S_{M+N}$$ but probably qiskit can do it internally.

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I think that the statevector_simulator will always return the statevector for all the qubits in the circuit. You can however add snapshots over a subset of qubits, so you could add this right at the end of your circuit and use the information you get from that instead.

from qiskit.extensions.simulator import snapshot
qc.snapshot("one_qubit", qubits=[0])
qc.snapshot("many_qubits", qubits=[0,2])

backend = Aer.get_backend('statevector_simulator')
result = execute(qc, backend).result()

snapshots = result.data()['snapshots']['statevector'].items()
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    $\begingroup$ is qc a QuantumCircuit instance? $\endgroup$ Sep 2, 2019 at 18:31
  • $\begingroup$ I can't understand the output of result.data()['snapshots']['statevector'][snapshot_name]. Is it possible to get a state vector array with $2^N$ elements where $N$ is the number of working qubits. After the code snippet from your answer I get the following: $\endgroup$ Sep 2, 2019 at 18:47
  • $\begingroup$ [[[1.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0]]] $\endgroup$ Sep 2, 2019 at 18:48
  • $\begingroup$ It has entries for amplitudes for all the qubits, but the qubits which are not asked for are considered to be in the 0 state. This means you can do what you suggested below, and only take the number of amplitudes you need. For example qc = QuantumCircuit(2) qc.h(0) qc.h(1) qc.snapshot("one_qubit", qubits=[0]) qc.snapshot("many_qubits", qubits=[0,1]) returns many_qubits : [[[0.5000000000000001, 0.0], [0.5, 0.0], [0.5, 0.0], [0.4999999999999999, 0.0]]] one_qubit : [[[0.7071067811865476, 0.0], [0.7071067811865475, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0]]] $\endgroup$
    – met927
    Sep 3, 2019 at 12:45
  • $\begingroup$ (It may be easier to copy and paste that code and what it generates somewhere you can read it better!) $\endgroup$
    – met927
    Sep 3, 2019 at 12:47
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If I can be sure that all ancilla qubits are in $ | 0...0 \rangle$ then that their state vector is: \begin{bmatrix} 1 \\ 0 \\ ... \\ 0 \end{bmatrix}

with $2^M\times 1$ dimension.

So I can take the first $2^N $ elements out of result.get_statevector(circuit) to find the state vector of working qubits.

But it's just a partial solution.

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