PennyLane-Honeywell Plugin

Release:0.15.0

The PennyLane-Honeywell plugin provides the ability to use Honeywell Quantum Solutions’ ion-trap quantum computing hardware with PennyLane.

PennyLane provides open-source tools for quantum machine learning, quantum computing, quantum chemistry, and hybrid quantum-classical computing.

Honeywell Quantum Solutions provides access to ion-trap quantum computing hardware over the cloud.

Note

The PennyLane-Honeywell plugin is currently in beta release. Expect some features to be updated or change in the future.

Once the PennyLane-Honeywell plugin is installed, the Honeywell Quantum Solutions online devices can be accessed straight away in PennyLane, without the need to import any additional packages.

Devices

PennyLane-Honeywell provides Honeywell Quantum Solutions hardware devices for PennyLane:

'honeywell.hqs'

Honeywell Quantum Solutions cloud ion-trap hardware.

Remote backend access

The user will need to obtain access credentials for the Honeywell Quantum Solutions platform in order to use these remote devices. These credentials should be provided to PennyLane via a configuration file or environment variable. Specifically, the variable HQS_TOKEN must contain a valid access key for Honeywell’s online platform.