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ionq.simulator

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

The ionq.simulator device in the PennyLane-IonQ plugin provides access to trapped-ion quantum hardware emulation.

Recommended for:

  • Ideal, noiseless gate-based trapped-ion simulations.
  • Integration with bespoke IonQ Ising-type gates.
  • Support for core PennyLane operations such as qubit rotations, Hadamard, basis state preparation, etc.
  • All operating systems.

Documentation

To learn more, please visit the device documentation:

  • ionq.simulator documentation

See all PennyLane-IonQ devices:

  • ionq.qpu
  • ionq.simulator

Installation

The ionq.simulator device can be installed with:

pip install pennylane-ionq 

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

Device Initialization

Initialize the device in PennyLane with:

import pennylane as qmlfrom pennylane_ionq import ops
dev = qml.device("ionq.simulator", wires=2)

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

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