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braket.local.qubit

  • QJIT
  • Small-Moderate Workloads
  • CPU (simulator)
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Windows

The braket.local.qubit device in the PennyLane-Braket plugin enables gate-based simulations using either your local computer or an AWS-hosted Braket notebook instance.

Recommended for:

  • Small-scale state vector simulations.
  • Rapid prototyping before running on paid remote services.
  • Operating directly within the Amazon Braket SDK for streamlined local testing.
  • Compatibility with Catalyst.

Documentation

To learn more, please visit the device documentation:

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Installation

The braket.local.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 device_local = qml.device("braket.local.qubit", wires=2)

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