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The braket.aws.qubit device is the entry point to Amazon Braket’s plethora of remotely accessible devices, from quantum hardware to high-performance simulator backends.

Recommended for:

  • Advanced state vector simulations.
  • Testing your algorithms directly on real quantum hardware with live access to quantum systems.
  • Integrating with other AWS services for managing jobs, logging, and monitoring.
  • Executing circuits in parallel.

Documentation

To learn more, please visit the device documentation:

  • braket.aws.qubit documentation

See all PennyLane-Braket devices:

  • braket.aws.ahs
  • braket.aws.qubit
  • braket.local.ahs
  • braket.local.qubit

Installation

The braket.aws.qubit device can be installed with:

pip install amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin

For more details on installation and dependencies, visit the PennyLane-Braket installation page.

Device Initialization

Initialize the device in PennyLane with:

import pennylane as qml
s3 = ("my-bucket", "my-prefix")
remote_device = qml.device("braket.aws.qubit", device_arn="arn:aws:braket:::device/quantum-simulator/amazon/sv1", s3_destination_folder=s3, wires=2) 

For more details on device settings and keyword arguments, see the device documentation.


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