rigetti.qvm

The rigetti.qvm device in the PennyLane-Rigetti plugin integrates PennyLane with the Forest SDK quantum virtual machine.

Recommended for:

• Small-scale qubit state vector simulations.
• Noisy simulations.
• Topology specificity.

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Documentation

To learn more, please visit the device documentation:

• rigetti.qvm documentation

See all PennyLane-Rigetti devices:

• rigetti.numpy_wavefunction
• rigetti.qpu
• rigetti.qvm
• rigetti.wavefunction

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Installation

The rigetti.qvm device can be installed with:

pip install pennylane-rigetti

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

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Device Initialization

Initialize the device in PennyLane with:

import pennylane as qml
dev = qml.device('rigetti.qvm', device='Aspen-8')

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