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PennyLane Lightning

Lightning is the family of high-performance state-vector and tensor-network quantum simulators written in C++ for PennyLane. Includes lightning.qubit (CPU), lightning.gpu (CUDA), lightning.kokkos (multi-architecture), and lightning.tensor backends for accelerated circuit simulation on laptops, GPUs, and HPC clusters. Apache-2.0.

PennyLane Lightning is one of 10 APIs that Xanadu publishes on the APIs.io network.

Tagged areas include Quantum Computing, Simulator, High Performance, GPU, and Open Source. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a GitHub repository, and SDKs.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/lightning/en/stable/

SDKs

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GitHubRepository
https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning
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SDK
https://pypi.org/project/PennyLane-Lightning/

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: xanadu:pennylane-lightning
name: PennyLane Lightning
tags:
- Quantum Computing
- Simulator
- High Performance
- GPU
- Open Source
humanURL: https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/lightning/en/stable/
properties:
- url: https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/lightning/en/stable/
  type: Documentation
- url: https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning
  type: GitHubRepository
- url: https://pypi.org/project/PennyLane-Lightning/
  type: SDK
description: Lightning is the family of high-performance state-vector and tensor-network quantum simulators
  written in C++ for PennyLane. Includes lightning.qubit (CPU), lightning.gpu (CUDA), lightning.kokkos
  (multi-architecture), and lightning.tensor backends for accelerated circuit simulation on laptops, GPUs,
  and HPC clusters. Apache-2.0.