Pasqal Device

You can instantiate a simulator for Pasqal’s neutral-atom devices in PennyLane as follows:

import pennylane as qml

dev = qml.device("cirq.pasqal", wires=2, control_radius=1.5)

This device can then be used just like other devices for the definition and evaluation of QNodes within PennyLane.

The Pasqal device supports unique features of Pasqal’s quantum computing hardware provided via Cirq, namely the ThreeDQubit and the notion of a control_radius.

from cirq_pasqal import ThreeDQubit
qubits = [ThreeDQubit(x, y, z)
          for x in range(2)
          for y in range(2)
          for z in range(2)]
dev = qml.device("cirq.pasqal", control_radius = 2., qubits=qubits, wires=len(qubits))

@qml.qnode(dev)
def circuit(x):
    qml.RX(x, wires=[0])
    qml.CNOT(wires=[0, 1])
    return qml.expval(qml.PauliZ(wires=1))

circuit(0.3)

Note that if not specified, ThreeDGridQubits are automatically arranged in a linear arrangement along the first coordinate axis, separated by a distance of control_radius / 2. That is, (0, 0, 0), (control_radius/2, 0, 0), (control_radius, 0, 0).

For more details about Pasqal devices, consult the Cirq docs.

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