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2.5 KiB
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55 lines
2.5 KiB
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upgrade_providers:
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The deprecated :mod:`qiskit.providers.fake_provider` module has been migrated to
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the ``qiskit-ibm-runtime`` Python package. For this reason, the following elements in
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the :mod:`qiskit.providers.fake_provider` have been removed following their deprecation
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in Qiskit 0.46:
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.FakeProvider``
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.FakeProviderForBackendV2``
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.FakeProviderFactory``
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.fake_backends.FakeBackendV2``
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* any fake backend contained in ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.backends`` (accessible through the provider)
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.FakeQasmSimulator``
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.FakeJob``
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.FakeQobj``
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To use the new fake provider module, you can run ``pip install qiskit-ibm-runtime``
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and replace the qiskit import path (``qiskit.providers.fake_provider``) with
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the new import path (``qiskit_ibm_runtime.fake_provider``).
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Migration example::
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# Legacy path
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from qiskit.providers.fake_provider import FakeProvider, FakeSherbrooke
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backend1 = FakeProvider().get_backend("fake_ourense")
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backend2 = FakeSherbrooke()
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# New path
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# run "pip install qiskit-ibm-runtime"
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from qiskit_ibm_runtime.fake_provider import FakeProvider, FakeSherbrooke
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backend1 = FakeProvider().get_backend("fake_ourense")
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backend2 = FakeSherbrooke()
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Additionally, the following fake backends designed for special testing purposes have
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been superseded by the new :class:`.GenericBackendV2` class, and are also removed
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following their deprecation in Qiskit 0.46:
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.fake_backend_v2.FakeBackendV2``
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* ```qiskit.providers.fake_provider.fake_backend_v2.FakeBackendV2LegacyQubitProps``
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.fake_backend_v2.FakeBackend5QV2``
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* ``qiskit.providers.fake_provider.fake_backend_v2.FakeBackendSimple``
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Migration example to the new :class:`.GenericBackendV2` class::
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# Legacy path
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from qiskit.providers.fake_provider import FakeBackend5QV2
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backend = FakeBackend5QV2()
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# New path
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from qiskit.providers.fake_provider import GenericBackendV2
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backend = GenericBackendV2(num_qubits=5)
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# note that this class will generate 5q backend with generic
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# properties that serves the same purpose as FakeBackend5QV2
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# but will generate different results
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