Adding PhasedQubitSparsePauli and PhasedQubitSparsePauliList #14759
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Summary
This PR adds
PhasedQubitSparsePauli
andPhasedQubitSparsePauliList
. These classes are very similar in motivation/functionality asQubitSparsePauli
andQubitSparsePauliList
(which are phase-less), but for the case where we want to store the phases of the Paulis.The phases in
PhasedQubitSparsePauli
andPhasedQubitSparsePauliList
will be stored in the same format asPauli
:Pauli("Y")._phase == 1
(as Y = ((-i)^1)ZX, whereasPauli("Y").phase == 0
.Details and comments
At this stage, the PR is setting up some basic functionality for
PhasedQubitSparsePauli
, and defines an extremely minimalPhasedQubitSparsePauliList
.