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Cirq <https://quantumai.google/cirq>
__ is a Python library for writing, manipulating, and optimizing quantum
circuits and running them against quantum computers and simulators.
This module is cirq-rigetti, which provides everything you'll need to run Cirq quantum algorithms on Rigetti quantum computers.
Documentation
To get started with Rigetti quantum computing services, checkout the following guide and tutorial:
Access and authentication <https://quantumai.google/cirq/rigetti/access>
__Getting started guide <https://quantumai.google/cirq/tutorials/rigetti/getting_started>
__
Installation
To install the stable version of only cirq-rigetti, use pip install cirq-rigetti
.
To install the pre-release version of only cirq-rigetti, use pip install cirq-rigetti~=1.0.dev
.
Note, that this will install both cirq-rigetti and cirq-core.
To get all the optional modules installed, you'll have to use pip install cirq
or pip install cirq~=1.0.dev
for the pre-release version.
Development
Please see Cirq development documentation <../docs/dev/development.md>
_.