sf.engine
Warning
Unless you are a Strawberry Fields developer, you likely do not need
to use these classes directly.
See the Engine class for
details on creating a Strawberry Fields engine.
This module implements BaseEngine and its subclasses that are responsible for
communicating quantum programs represented by Program objects
to a backend that could be e.g., a simulator or a hardware quantum processor.
One can think of each BaseEngine instance as a separate quantum computation.
Classes
BaseEngine(backend, *[, backend_options])
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Abstract base class for quantum program executor engines. |
LocalEngine(backend, *[, backend_options])
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Local quantum program executor engine. |
BosonicEngine(backend, *[, backend_options])
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Local quantum program executor engine for programs executed on the bosonic backend. |
Class Inheritance Diagram
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