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# This code is part of Qiskit.
#
# (C) Copyright IBM 2021, 2022.
#
# This code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. You may
# obtain a copy of this license in the LICENSE.txt file in the root directory
# of this source tree or at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
#
# Any modifications or derivative works of this code must retain this
# copyright notice, and modified files need to carry a notice indicating
# that they have been altered from the originals.

"""Interface for Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution."""

from abc import ABC, abstractmethod

from qiskit.utils.deprecation import deprecate_func
from .evolution_problem import EvolutionProblem
from .evolution_result import EvolutionResult


class ImaginaryEvolver(ABC):
    """Deprecated: Interface for Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution.



    The ImaginaryEvolver interface has been superseded by the

    :class:`qiskit.algorithms.time_evolvers.ImaginaryTimeEvolver` interface.

    This interface will be deprecated in a future release and subsequently

    removed after that.



    """

    @deprecate_func(

        additional_msg=(

            "Instead, use the interface ``qiskit.algorithms.time_evolvers.ImaginaryTimeEvolver``. "

            "See https://qisk.it/algo_migration for a migration guide."

        ),

        since="0.24.0",

    )
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        pass

    @abstractmethod
    def evolve(self, evolution_problem: EvolutionProblem) -> EvolutionResult:
        r"""Perform imaginary time evolution :math:`\exp(-\tau H)|\Psi\rangle`.



        Evolves an initial state :math:`|\Psi\rangle` for an imaginary time :math:`\tau`

        under a Hamiltonian  :math:`H`, as provided in the ``evolution_problem``.



        Args:

            evolution_problem: The definition of the evolution problem.



        Returns:

            Evolution result which includes an evolved quantum state.

        """
        raise NotImplementedError()