Lightning-Tensor installation

Lightning-Tensor requires CUDA 12 and the cuQuantum SDK (only the cutensornet library is required). The SDK may be installed within the Python environment site-packages directory using pip or conda or the SDK library path appended to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Please see the cuQuantum SDK install guide for more information.

Install Lightning-Tensor from source

Lightning-Qubit should be installed before Lightning-Tensor (compilation is not necessary):

git clone https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning.git
cd pennylane-lightning
pip install -r requirements.txt
PL_BACKEND="lightning_qubit" python scripts/configure_pyproject_toml.py
SKIP_COMPILATION=True pip install -e . --config-settings editable_mode=compat

Then the cutensornet library can be installed and set a CUQUANTUM_SDK environment variable.

export CUQUANTUM_SDK=$(python -c "import site; print( f'{site.getsitepackages()[0]}/cuquantum')")

The Lightning-Tensor can then be installed with pip:

PL_BACKEND="lightning_tensor" python scripts/configure_pyproject_toml.py
pip install -e . --config-settings editable_mode=compat -vv

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