PennyLane-Cirq Plugin ######################

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The PennyLane-Cirq plugin integrates the Cirq quantum computing framework with PennyLane's quantum machine learning capabilities.

PennyLane <https://pennylane.readthedocs.io>__ is a cross-platform Python library for quantum machine learning, automatic differentiation, and optimization of hybrid quantum-classical computations.

Cirq <https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq>__ is a software library for quantum computing.

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The plugin documentation can be found here: <https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/cirq>__.

Features

• Provides access to built-in Cirq backends including cirq.simulator and cirq.mixedsimulator

• Provides access to Pasqal's neutral-atom devices via cirq.pasqal

• Provides access to the simulators qsim and qsimh via the cirq.qsim and cirq.qsimh devices

• Support for all PennyLane core functionality

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Installation

This plugin requires Python version 3.9 or above, as well as PennyLane and Cirq. Installation of this plugin, as well as all dependencies, can be done using pip:

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$ pip install pennylane-cirq

Alternatively, you can install PennyLane-Cirq from the source code <https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq>__ by navigating to the top directory and running:

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$ python setup.py install

Dependencies

PennyLane-Cirq requires the following libraries be installed:

* `Python <http://python.org/>`__ >= 3.9

as well as the following Python packages:

* `PennyLane <http://pennylane.readthedocs.io/>`__ >= 0.17
* `Cirq <https://cirq.readthedocs.io/>`__ >= 0.10.0

To use the qsim and qsimh devices, the qsim-Cirq interface ``qsimcirq`` is required:

* `qsimcirq <https://github.com/quantumlib/qsim/blob/master/docs/cirq_interface.md>`__

It can be installed using ``pip``:

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    $ pip install qsimcirq

If you currently do not have Python 3 installed, we recommend
`Anaconda for Python 3 <https://www.anaconda.com/download/>`__, a distributed version of Python packaged
for scientific computation.


Tests
~~~~~

To test that the PennyLane-Cirq plugin is working correctly you can run

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    $ make test

in the source folder.

Documentation

To build the HTML documentation, go to the top-level directory and run:

.. code-block:: bash

$ make docs

The documentation can then be found in the doc/_build/html/ directory.

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Contributing

We welcome contributions - simply fork the repository of this plugin, and then make a pull request <https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/>__ containing your contribution. All contributers to this plugin will be listed as authors on the releases.

We also encourage bug reports, suggestions for new features and enhancements, and even links to cool projects or applications built on PennyLane.

Authors

PennyLane-Cirq is the work of many contributors <https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/graphs/contributors>__.

If you are doing research using PennyLane and PennyLane-Cirq, please cite our paper <https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04968>__:

Ville Bergholm, Josh Izaac, Maria Schuld, Christian Gogolin, M. Sohaib Alam, Shahnawaz Ahmed,
Juan Miguel Arrazola, Carsten Blank, Alain Delgado, Soran Jahangiri, Keri McKiernan, Johannes Jakob Meyer,
Zeyue Niu, Antal Száva, and Nathan Killoran.
*PennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations.* 2018. arXiv:1811.04968

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Support

• Source Code: https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq
• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/issues
• PennyLane Forum: https://discuss.pennylane.ai

If you are having issues, please let us know by posting the issue on our Github issue tracker, or by asking a question in the forum.

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License

The PennyLane-Cirq plugin is free and open source, released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>__.

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