qsvt-pennylane 0.1.6

Educational utilities and examples for Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT) using PennyLane.

Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT)

Lightweight tools for experimenting with Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT) using PennyLane.

PyPI package: https://pypi.org/project/qsvt-pennylane/

This repository combines:

• a notebook-first introduction to QSVT
• a reusable Python package for bounded polynomial transforms

The focus is on spectral intuition:

how bounded polynomials transform singular values or eigenvalues via block encodings.

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Table of Contents

• Installation

• Quick example

• Package overview

  • Polynomial utilities
  • Polynomial approximation
  • Polynomial templates
  • Polynomial design
  • Reports
  • Matrix helpers
  • Classical spectral reference
  • QSVT simulation utilities

• Documentation

• Notebooks

• CLI

• Scope and philosophy

• Support development

• Author

• License

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Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install qsvt-pennylane

Install from source:

git clone https://github.com/SidRichardsQuantum/Quantum_Singular_Value_Transformation.git
cd Quantum_Singular_Value_Transformation

pip install -e .

Requirements:

• Python ≥ 3.10
• PennyLane ≥ 0.36
• NumPy ≥ 1.23
• Matplotlib ≥ 3.7

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Quick example

Scalar polynomial transform:

from qsvt.qsvt import qsvt_scalar_output

qsvt_scalar_output(
    x=0.5,
    poly=[0,0,1],  ## x²
    encoding_wires=[0],
)

Diagonal transform:

from qsvt.qsvt import qsvt_diagonal_transform

qsvt_diagonal_transform(
    values=[1.0, 0.7, 0.3, 0.1],
    poly=[0,0,1],
    encoding_wires=[0,1,2],
)

Design a bounded sign polynomial:

from qsvt.design import design_sign_polynomial

coeffs = design_sign_polynomial(
    gamma=0.25,
    degree=13,
)

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Package overview

The package provides small, composable utilities for constructing and applying bounded polynomial transforms.

Polynomial utilities

qsvt.polynomials

• Chebyshev polynomials
• polynomial degree and parity
• boundedness checks
• coefficient normalisation

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Polynomial approximation

qsvt.approximation

• Chebyshev fitting
• approximation error metrics
• polynomial evaluation helpers

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Polynomial templates

qsvt.templates

Ready-to-use bounded polynomial families:

• inverse-like polynomials
• sign approximations
• soft threshold filters
• sqrt approximations
• exponential weighting functions
• approximation-quality reports

Useful for quick experiments.

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Polynomial design

qsvt.design

Task-oriented polynomial builders:

• inverse-like transforms
• sign polynomials
• projector polynomials
• sqrt approximations
• power-law transforms
• smooth spectral filters
• approximation-quality reports

Designed for reusable QSVT workflows.

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Reports

qsvt.reports

• convert diagnostics reports to JSON-safe containers
• save and load report JSON files
• plot target, polynomial, and error curves

Useful for recording approximation quality and making report output reusable outside notebooks.

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Matrix helpers

qsvt.matrices

Small Hermitian test matrices:

• diagonal matrices
• rotated diagonal matrices
• involutory matrices

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Classical spectral reference

qsvt.spectral

Reference matrix-function utilities:

• matrix powers
• matrix square roots
• matrix sign
• spectral projectors

Useful for validating polynomial transforms.

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QSVT simulation utilities

qsvt.qsvt

Thin wrappers around PennyLane QSVT:

• scalar QSVT transforms
• diagonal transforms
• block extraction
• classical vs QSVT comparisons
• QSVT transform reports

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Documentation

Full documentation:

• Theory: THEORY.md
• Usage guide: USAGE.md
• API reference: docs/qsvt/api_reference.md
• Package index: docs/qsvt/index.md
• Changelog: CHANGELOG.md

Current release: 0.1.6

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Notebooks

The notebooks provide a guided introduction to QSVT as polynomial functional calculus.

1. scalar intuition
2. singular value filtering
3. QSP polynomials
4. exact linear solvers
5. approximate inverse behaviour
6. polynomial design and approximation
7. matrix powers and roots
8. sign function and projectors
9. reusable polynomial workflows

The examples emphasise:

• bounded polynomial structure
• spectral interpretation
• simple matrices
• reproducible results

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CLI

After installation:

qsvt scalar --x 0.5 --poly "0,0,1"

qsvt diag \
  --values "1.0,0.7,0.3,0.1" \
  --poly "0,0,1" \
  --wires 3

qsvt cheb --degree 3 --x 0.5

qsvt design-report --kind sign --gamma 0.2 --degree 13 \
  --output sign-report.json \
  --plot sign-report.png

qsvt template-report --kind inverse --degree 7 --mu 0.3 \
  --output inverse-report.json

qsvt compatibility-report --poly "0,0,1"

qsvt design-compatibility \
  --kind sign \
  --degree 13 \
  --gamma 0.2

qsvt compare-report \
  --values "1.0,0.7,0.3,0.1" \
  --poly "0,0,1" \
  --wires 3 \
  --output qsvt-report.json

qsvt apply-design \
  --kind sign \
  --values="-0.8,-0.3,0.3,0.8" \
  --degree 13 \
  --gamma 0.2 \
  --wires 3

The report commands print the same JSON diagnostics used by the Python helpers, including fit error and boundedness information. --output writes the report to JSON, and --plot writes a target-vs-polynomial plot for approximation reports.

Compatibility reports distinguish bounded polynomial approximation from PennyLane QSVT synthesis compatibility.

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Scope and philosophy

This repository is intentionally:

• educational
• explicit
• simulator-friendly
• polynomial-focused

The goal is to make QSVT easier to experiment with and understand.

Topics intentionally outside scope:

• circuit optimisation
• resource estimation
• fault tolerance
• amplitude amplification
• state preparation methods

The emphasis is understanding how polynomial transforms act on spectra.

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Support development

If this repository is useful for research, learning, or experimentation, you can support continued development via GitHub Sponsors:

https://github.com/sponsors/SidRichardsQuantum

Sponsorship supports continued work on open-source implementations of quantum algorithms, including polynomial-based quantum signal processing, spectral transforms, and reproducible research tooling.

Support helps maintain accessible reference implementations for experimenting with QSVT, QSP, and matrix functional calculus workflows.

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Author

Sid Richards

GitHub: https://github.com/SidRichardsQuantum

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sid-richards-21374b30b/

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License

MIT License — see LICENSE