get list of measured bistrings from Aquila

[balewski]

For some analysis, say evaluation of stability of the HW, one needs to see the bistrings from all shots, presented as a list.
Currently you provide only the summary in the form of dictionary of all unique bistrings and the number of occurences. It is done by get_counts():
https://amazon-braket-sdk-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/braket/tasks/analog_hamiltonian_simulation_quantum_task_result.html#AnalogHamiltonianSimulationQuantumTaskResult.get_counts
Can you provide also new function get_shots(), which would differ very little from get_counts(), namely instead of accumulating the dictionary:

state_counts = Counter()
 for shot in self.measurements:
 ...
      state_counts.update((state,))
return dict(state_counts)

it would append a list:

state_list = []
 for shot in self.measurements:
 ...
      state_list.append(state)
return state_list

I can hack it for now, but this type of functionality is of general use. E.g. it is available in Qiskit or TKet.
Thanks, Jan

[kshitijc]

Thank you for raising this issue @balewski! We would be glad to include this functionality. Since you have already hacked it together, would you like to contribute it to the SDK?

[balewski]

I'm not that skilled with code commit. Here is my hacked version - use it as you like Jan #...!...!.................. def hacked_get_shots(measurements): state_list=[] states = ["e", "r", "g"] for shot in measurements: if shot.status == AnalogHamiltonianSimulationShotStatus.SUCCESS: pre = shot.pre_sequence post = shot.post_sequence # converting presequence and postsequence measurements to state_idx state_idx = [ 0 if pre_i == 0 else 1 if post_i == 0 else 2 for pre_i, post_i in zip(pre, post) ] state = "".join(map(lambda s_idx: states[s_idx], state_idx)) state_list.append(state) return state_list

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[kshitijc]

Thanks a lot Jan! This is super helpful. Since this doesn't block you, I'll keep this open if someone else would like to contribute this to the SDK.