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Name: PennyLane-Honeywell
Version: 0.10.0
Summary: PennyLane plugin to access the Honeywell Quantum Solutions cloud service.
Home-page: http://xanadu.ai
Maintainer: Xanadu Inc.
License: Apache License 2.0
Description: PennyLane-Honeywell Plugin
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        The PennyLane-Honeywell plugin provides the ability to use Honeywell Quantum Solutions' ion-trap
        quantum computing hardware with PennyLane.
        
        `PennyLane <https://pennylane.ai>`_ provides open-source tools for
        quantum machine learning, quantum computing, quantum chemistry, and hybrid quantum-classical computing.
        
        `Honeywell Quantum Solutions <https://www.honeywell.com/en-us/company/quantum>`_ provides access to
        ion-trap quantum computing hardware over the cloud.
        
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            The PennyLane-Honeywell plugin is currently in *beta* release. Expect some features
            to be updated or change in the future.
        
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        The plugin documentation can be found here: `PennyLane-Honeywell <https://pennylane-honeywell.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__.
        
        Features
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        * Provides a PennyLane device ``honeywell.hqs`` which can be used to access Honeywell Quantum Solutions' online hardware API.
        
        * Supports core PennyLane operations such as qubit rotations, Hadamard, basis state preparations, etc.
        
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        Installation
        ============
        
        PennyLane-Honeywell only requires PennyLane for use, no additional external frameworks are needed.
        The plugin can be installed via ``pip``:
        ::
        
            $ python3 -m pip install pennylane-honeywell
        
        Alternatively, you can install PennyLane-Honeywell from the source code by navigating to the top directory and running
        ::
        
            $ python3 setup.py install
        
        
        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.
        
        Software tests
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        To ensure that PennyLane-Honeywell is working correctly after installation, the test suite can be
        run by navigating to the source code folder and running
        ::
        
            $ make test
        
        
        Documentation
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        To build the HTML documentation, go to the top-level directory and run
        ::
        
            $ make docs
        
        The documentation can then be found in the ``doc/_build/html/`` directory.
        
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        Getting started
        ===============
        
        Once PennyLane-Honeywell is installed, available Honeywell devices can be accessed straight
        away in PennyLane. However, the user will need access credentials for the Honeywell Quantum Solutions (HQS) platform in
        order to use these remote devices. These credentials should be provided to PennyLane via a
        `configuration file or environment variable <https://pennylane.readthedocs.io/en/stable/introduction/configuration.html>`_.
        Specifically, the variable ``HQS_TOKEN`` must contain a valid access key for HQS's online platform.
        
        You can instantiate the HQS device class for PennyLane as follows:
        
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            import pennylane as qml
            dev1 = qml.device("honeywell.hqs", "machine_name", wires=2)
        
        where ``machine_name`` is the specific name of the online device you'd like to access. Contact Honeywell Quantum
        Solutions to receive platform access and machine names.
        
        HQS devices can then be used just like other devices for the definition and evaluation of
        quantum circuits within PennyLane. For more details and ideas, see the
        `PennyLane website <https://pennylane.ai>`_ and refer
        to the `PennyLane documentation <https://pennylane.readthedocs.io>`_.
        
        
        Contributing
        ============
        
        We welcome contributions—simply fork the PennyLane-Honeywell repository, and then make a
        `pull request <https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/>`_ containing your contribution.
        All contributers to PennyLane-Honeywell will be listed as contributors 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 and Honeywell Quantum Solutions' machines.
        
        
        Contributors
        ============
        
        PennyLane-Honeywell is the work of many `contributors <https://github.com/XanaduAI/pennylane-honeywell/graphs/contributors>`_.
        
        If you are doing research using PennyLane, please cite our papers:
        
            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, Nathan Killoran.
            *PennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations.* 2018.
            `arXiv:1811.04968 <https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04968>`_
        
            Maria Schuld, Ville Bergholm, Christian Gogolin, Josh Izaac, and Nathan Killoran.
            *Evaluating analytic gradients on quantum hardware.* 2018.
            `Phys. Rev. A 99, 032331 <https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.032331>`_
        
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        Support
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        - **Source Code:** https://github.com/XanaduAI/pennylane-honeywell
        - **Issue Tracker:** https://github.com/XanaduAI/pennylane-honeywell/issues
        
        If you are having issues, please let us know by posting the issue on our GitHub issue tracker.
        
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        License
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        PennyLane-Honeywell is **free** and **open source**, released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
        
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