The Amazon Braket PennyLane plugin offers two Amazon Braket quantum devices to work with PennyLane. The Amazon Braket Python SDK is an open-source library that provides a framework to interact with quantum computing hardware devices and simulators through Amazon Braket. PennyLane is a machine learning library for optimization and automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations. Once the Pennylane-Braket plugin is installed, the provided Braket devices can be accessed straight away in PennyLane, without the need to import any additional packages. While the local device helps with small-scale simulations and rapid prototyping, the remote device allows you to run larger simulations or access quantum hardware via the Amazon Braket service.
Features
- This plugin provides two Braket devices for use with PennyLane
- Runs circuits on the Braket SDK's local simulator
- Runs circuits on the remote Amazon Braket service
- The remote device allows you to run larger simulations or access quantum hardware via the Amazon Braket service
- To see the PennyLane-Braket plugin in action, you can use any of the qubit-based demos from the PennyLane documentation
- Tutorials that showcase the Braket devices can be found on the PennyLane website