ionq.simulator

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.

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Documentation

To learn more, please visit the device documentation:

• ionq.simulator documentation

See all PennyLane-IonQ devices:

• ionq.qpu
• ionq.simulator

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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.

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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.