Storing and Plotting Additional QED-C Metrics

[Neerpatel125]

Description

This PR focuses on storing additional QED-C metrics (circuit depth, width, 2-Qubit gates, etc.) and plotting them. The files generated are stored in __data/ and __images/ after polling.

The execution time and circuit creation time plots have been excluded, and no additional dependencies were added. This will complete the implementation of the selected QED-C benchmarks.

Issue ticket number and link

N/A

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update

How Has This Been Tested?

Each QED-C benchmark was ran and plotted using the local aer_simulator. To reproduce results, run the example schema files for each benchmark -- they will display extra metrics and associated plots. No configuration changes need to be made for testing purposes.

Checklist:

• I have performed a self-review of my code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules (or not applicable)

[Neerpatel125]

I'm not sure how to get the provider_name and device_name when polling.

[vprusso]

Any clever ideas on how to do this, @cosenal ? My initial thought would be to change the arguments for the polling function, but this would require changes to all benchmarks and going forward as well. Maybe supporting some type of *kwargs for polling here is a reasonable approach?

[vprusso]

As we discussed on Friday, this is likely something outside of scope for this MR but something that we should perhaps spin up a separate issue about as this is likely a use-case that will crop up again (@cosenal )

[vprusso]

LGTM, but let's also get @cosenal to give a review of this as well. Nice work, @Neerpatel125 !

[Neerpatel125]

As mentioned in today's meeting, I removed extra_metrics and plot_metrics from the schema files, and the code stores all metrics and plots them by default. We plan to move the plotting to a visualization step after polling or find other alternatives.