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evolved_operator decodes the whole evolved operator: it enumerates the index, materialises a key per surviving term, and builds a term dictionary. evolved_operator_coefficients probes the index with the terms the caller names instead, so the decode costs one entry per term requested rather than one per term the operator carries. Reading a few amplitudes out of an evolved state (Schrödinger picture) is the motivating case. The graph contraction is unchanged and still dominant — this removes the per-surviving-term tail, not evolution cost.

Contracts, all pinned by tests: an absent term reads back as 0; there is deliberately no atol, since the caller named its terms and magnitude filtering would silently zero some of them (threshold the result instead); the result is positional, and a repeated term is answered once per occurrence; the empty term agrees with evolved_operator in both pictures — core_term() in Heisenberg, an ordinary index row in Schrödinger; and it is rank-local, exactly as evolved_operator is.

Terms must be canonical, as the constructor's initial_operator keys must be. The engine keys terms by an order-insensitive bitset, so a raw (1, 0) would resolve to the row of (0, 1) and read back its coefficient without the anticommutation sign — which a lookup has no coefficient of its own to carry. Raw sequences are therefore validated through Majorana rather than normalized; use Majorana.from_unsorted and apply the sign it returns.

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  • MonomialPropagator::evolved_operator_coefficients(parameters, terms), built on the operator index's group-prefetch find_batch rather than a for_each enumeration. Under partitions each partition probes on its own master thread into its own vector and the merge runs on the facade thread, as every other partition fan-out in the file does.
  • Bound as evolved_operator_coefficients(terms, parameters=None), returning a complex NumPy array.
  • A _term_slots front-end hook: Majorana indices for MajoranaPropagator (Majorana terms, index tuples or index arrays, with non-canonical ones rejected), symplectic slots for PauliPropagator (Pauli terms). Cross-front-end terms raise TypeError. It is a default rather than an abstract method, so a front-end that does not encode terms still constructs.
  • 11 C++ and 17 Python cases oracled against evolved_operator(atol=0.0), covering both pictures crossed with 1/2/4 partitions. Partitioned Schrödinger is the only configuration where the identity is a hash-partitioned index row, so it is what exercises the empty key against the concurrent merge.
  • test_evolved_operator_coefficients_is_rank_local: the ranks' answers sum to the serial result, plus a check that the split is real — counted against the terms each rank owns rather than its nonzero coefficients, which would drift if an owned term evolved to exactly zero.
  • A "Reading individual terms" section in docs/content/docs/features/evaluation.mdx.

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274/274 C++ ctest and 611 Python tests pass locally, and prek run --all-files is clean over this branch's files. The MPI leg was never executed: the dev environment is a serial build, so test_evolved_operator_coefficients_is_rank_local is reviewed but unrun and CI's [mpi:on] lanes are its first real run. Branched from 7101b33, which main has since moved past, so a rebase before merge would be sensible.

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  • Tests added or updated to cover the changes
  • Documentation updated (docstrings, docs/, CONTRIBUTING.md) if needed
  • CHANGELOG / release notes updated if applicable — N/A, the repository keeps no CHANGELOG

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  • New Features

    • Added evolved_operator_coefficients to retrieve selected evolved-operator coefficients without enumerating the full operator.
    • Supports Majorana, Pauli, and raw index terms, preserving query order and repeated terms.
    • Returns zero for absent terms and supports identity terms, Schrödinger and Heisenberg modes, and rank-local execution.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance covering supported term formats and query behavior.

`evolved_operator` decodes the whole evolved operator: it enumerates the
operator index, materialises a key per surviving term, and builds a term
dictionary. `evolved_operator_coefficients` instead probes the index with
the terms the caller names, so the decode costs one entry per term
*requested* rather than one per term the operator carries. Reading a few
amplitudes out of an evolved state (Schrodinger picture) is the motivating
case. The graph contraction is unchanged, and still the dominant cost.

Contracts: a term the operator does not carry reads back as 0; there is no
atol, since the caller named the terms it wants and magnitude filtering
would silently zero some of them; the result is positional; and it is
rank-local, exactly as `evolved_operator` is.

Terms must be canonical monomials, as the constructor's initial_operator
keys must be. The engine keys terms by an order-insensitive bitset, so a
raw `(1, 0)` would resolve to the row of `(0, 1)` and read back its
coefficient without the anticommutation sign -- which a lookup has no
coefficient of its own to carry. The Majorana front-end therefore
validates raw sequences through `Majorana` rather than normalizing them;
use `Majorana.from_unsorted` and apply the sign it returns.

Under partitions each partition probes on its own master thread into its
own vector, and the merge runs on the facade thread, matching how every
other partition fan-out in the file collects its results.

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Docs preview: https://pr-337.monoprop-docs.pages.dev

The comments and docstrings added with the feature were outliers against
their neighbours: the header block was 12 lines where the file's median
doc block is 1 and its next-longest are 6 and 7, and
`evolved_operator_coefficients` was 36 lines against a module median of 4.

Cut to the contracts a reader cannot infer, dropping the worked examples
and the reasoning that the docs page and the API reference already carry.
The `_term_slots` hooks lose their `Raises:` sections -- they are private,
so `gen_api_dump.py` never renders them, and the same raises were
documented on the public method too. The evaluation page keeps the
overview and defers the contract list to the API reference.

No behaviour change.

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JoshCudbyAlgo and others added 2 commits September 11, 2026 14:32
Naming the rejected term keeps the `pytest.raises` body to a single call
line, so the assertion reads as one statement. No change to what the test
exercises.

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Adds evolved_operator_coefficients to the C++ and Python propagators. The API encodes requested Majorana or Pauli terms, returns coefficients in query order, handles absent and identity terms, and supports partitioned execution. Tests and documentation cover the new behavior.

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Evolved operator coefficient probing

Layer / File(s) Summary
C++ coefficient probe implementation
cpp/include/monoprop/MonomialPropagator.h, cpp/monoprop/detail/monomial_propagator/MonomialPropagator.inl
Adds the public method and implements checked term lookup, graph contraction, partition merging, numerical rounding, and identity handling.
Front-end term encoding and API wiring
src/monoprop/monomial_propagator.py, src/monoprop/majorana_propagator.py, src/monoprop/pauli_propagator.py, src/monoprop/bindings/binder.h, docs/content/docs/features/evaluation.mdx
Adds term encoding for Majorana and Pauli inputs, binds the C++ method, defines result and validation behavior, and documents the API.
Coefficient probing validation
cpp/tests/evolved_operator_coefficients_tests.cpp, tests/test_evolved_operator_coefficients.py, tests/test_monoprop_mpi.py
Tests matching, ordering, absent and repeated terms, identity behavior, validation errors, partitioning, Schrödinger mode, and rank-local results.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PythonCaller
  participant MonomialPropagator
  participant TermEncoder
  participant CppBinding
  participant MPIRanks
  PythonCaller->>MonomialPropagator: provide terms and parameters
  MonomialPropagator->>TermEncoder: encode front-end terms
  TermEncoder->>CppBinding: pass canonical index slots
  CppBinding->>MPIRanks: contract graph and probe local rows
  MPIRanks-->>CppBinding: return local coefficients
  CppBinding-->>PythonCaller: return coefficients in query order
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This change adds a new API for selectively querying evolved-operator coefficients without enumerating all terms, matching the existing enumeration behavior verified in the reviewed tests. One narrow edge case remains: extremely small but legitimate coefficients (below about 5e-13) could be rounded down to exactly zero even though the feature is documented as not filtering by tolerance. This is unlikely to affect typical usage and has a straightforward fix, so it should not block merging but is worth addressing in a follow-up.

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A term the operator does not carry reads back as ``0``, and there is deliberately no
``atol`` -- the caller named its terms, so magnitude filtering would silently zero some of
them. Terms must be canonical; for a Majorana product that is not, use
[Majorana.from_unsorted][monoprop.majorana.Majorana.from_unsorted] and apply the sign it
returns. A repeated term is answered once per occurrence.

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Remove some of this slop

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Deslopped here and elsewhere

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