cirq_ionq.ionq_devices.IonQAPIDevice

A device that uses the QIS gates exposed by the IonQ API.

cirq_ionq.ionq_devices.IonQAPIDevice(
    qubits: Union[Sequence[cirq.LineQubit], int], atol=1e-08
)

When using this device in constructing a circuit, it will convert one and two qubit gates that are not supported by the API into those supported by the API if they have a unitary matrix (support the unitary protocol).

Note that this device does not do any compression of the resulting circuit, i.e. it may result in a series of single qubit gates that could be executed using far fewer elements.

The gates supported by the API are

* <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/XPowGate"><code>cirq.XPowGate</code></a>, <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/YPowGate"><code>cirq.YPowGate</code></a>, <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/ZPowGate"><code>cirq.ZPowGate</code></a>
* <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/XXPowGate"><code>cirq.XXPowGate</code></a>, <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/YYPowGate"><code>cirq.YYPowGate</code></a>, <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/ZZPowGate"><code>cirq.ZZPowGate</code></a>
* <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/CNOT"><code>cirq.CNOT</code></a>, <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/H"><code>cirq.H</code></a>, <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/SWAP"><code>cirq.SWAP</code></a>
* <a href="https://quantumai.google/reference/python/cirq/MeasurementGate"><code>cirq.MeasurementGate</code></a>

qubits The qubits upon which this device acts or the number of qubits. If the number of qubits, then the qubits will be cirq.LineQubits from 0 to this number minus one.
atol The absolute tolerance used for gate calculations and decompositions.

metadata Returns the associated Metadata with the device if applicable.

Methods

is_api_gate

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is_api_gate(
    operation: cirq.Operation
) -> bool

validate_circuit

validate_circuit(
    circuit: cirq.AbstractCircuit
) -> None

Raises an exception if a circuit is not valid.

Args
circuit The circuit to validate.

Raises
ValueError The circuit isn't valid for this device.

validate_moment

validate_moment(
    moment: cirq.Moment
) -> None

Raises an exception if a moment is not valid.

Args
moment The moment to validate.

Raises
ValueError The moment isn't valid for this device.

validate_operation

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validate_operation(
    operation: cirq.Operation
)

Raises an exception if an operation is not valid.

Args
operation The operation to validate.

Raises
ValueError The operation isn't valid for this device.