Extending rustiq synthesis plugin to work SparseObservables (backport #14582) #14628
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Summary
In #13301, we introduced a synthesis plugin
PauliEvolutionSynthesisRustiq
for objects of typePauliEvolutionGate
. At the time, theoperator
of a PauliEvolutionGate could be either aPauli
or aSparsePauliOp
(or a list of such objects). Later, in #13836, we extended PauliEvolutionGate to also support operators of typeSparseObservable
, leading to impressive gains for the default synthesis plugin for PauliEvolutionGate. However, we forgot to extendPauliEvolutionSynthesisRustiq
as well. As the result, the following code could run without raising any errors, but produced incorrect output circuits:This PR fixes the above problem by converting within the rustiq plugin
SparseObservables
toSparsePauliOps
(note that this might exponentially increase the number of terms). In addition, the Qiskit Rust interface to rustiq has been extended to raise an error when the pauli input strings are invalid.This is an automatic backport of pull request #14582 done by [Mergify](https://mergify.com).