"""
Build a half-adder quantum circuit that takes two bits as input,
encodes them into qubits, then runs the half-adder circuit calculating
the sum and carry qubits, observed over 1000 runs of the experiment
.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder_(electronics)
https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-states/atoms-computation.html#4.2-Remembering-how-to-add-
"""
import qiskit as q
def half_adder(bit0: int, bit1: int) -> q.result.counts.Counts:
"""
>>> half_adder(0, 0)
{'00': 1000}
>>> half_adder(0, 1)
{'01': 1000}
>>> half_adder(1, 0)
{'01': 1000}
>>> half_adder(1, 1)
{'10': 1000}
"""
simulator = q.Aer.get_backend("qasm_simulator")
qc_ha = q.QuantumCircuit(4, 2)
if bit0 == 1:
qc_ha.x(0)
if bit1 == 1:
qc_ha.x(1)
qc_ha.barrier()
qc_ha.cx(0, 2)
qc_ha.cx(1, 2)
qc_ha.ccx(0, 1, 3)
qc_ha.barrier()
qc_ha.measure(2, 0)
qc_ha.measure(3, 1)
job = q.execute(qc_ha, simulator, shots=1000)
return job.result().get_counts(qc_ha)
if __name__ == "__main__":
counts = half_adder(1, 1)
print(f"Half Adder Output Qubit Counts: {counts}")