PennyLane-AQT Plugin¶
- Release
0.40.0-dev
The PennyLane-AQT plugin provides the ability to use Alpine Quantum Technologies’ ion-trap quantum computing backends with PennyLane.
PennyLane provides open-source tools for quantum machine learning, quantum computing, quantum chemistry, and hybrid quantum-classical computing.
Alpine Quantum Technologies is an ion-trap quantum computing company offering access to quantum computing devices over the cloud.
Once the PennyLane-AQT plugin is installed, the two provided AQT devices can be accessed directly using PennyLane, without the need to import any additional packages.
Devices¶
PennyLane-AQT provides two AQT devices for PennyLane:
Both devices support the same operations, including AQT’s
custom rotation and Mølmer-Sørenson-type gates.
Remote backend access¶
The user will need access credentials for the AQT platform in order to
use these remote devices. These credentials should be provided to PennyLane via a
configuration file or environment variable.
Specifically, the variable AQT_TOKEN must contain a valid access key for AQT’s online platform.