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Spin-2

  • Small-Moderate Workloads
  • Quantum Hardware
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The quantuminspire.qi (with 'Spin-2' backend) device in the PennyLane-QuantumInspire plugin hosts a 2-qubit semiconductor electron spin processor with two qubits (q0, q1) which are connected.

Recommended for small-scale workflows that run on real hardware.


Documentation

  • Spin-2 documentation

See all PennyLane-QuantumInspire devices:

  • quantuminspire.qi (with 'QX single-node simulator' backend)
  • quantuminspire.qi (with 'Spin-2' backend)
  • quantuminspire.qi (with 'Starmon-5' backend)

Installation

The quantuminspire.qi (with 'Spin-2' backend) device can be installed with:

pip install pennylane-quantuminspire

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


Device Initialization

Initialize the device in PennyLane with:

import pennylane as qml dev = qml.device('quantuminspire.qi', wires=2, backend='Spin-2')

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

PennyLane

PennyLane is an open-source software framework for quantum machine learning, quantum chemistry, and quantum computing, with the ability to run on all hardware. Built with ❤️ by Xanadu.

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