AerProvider

class AerProvider

Bases: ProviderV1

Provider for Aer backends.

Attributes

version = 1

Methods

backends(name=None, filters=None, **kwargs)

Return a list of backends matching the specified filtering.

Parameters:

• name (str) – name of the backend.

• **kwargs – dict used for filtering.

Returns:

a list of Backends that match the filtering

criteria.

Return type:

list[Backend]

get_backend(name=None, **kwargs)

Return a single backend matching the specified filtering.

Parameters:

• name (str) – name of the backend.

• **kwargs – dict used for filtering.

Returns:

a backend matching the filtering.

Return type:

Backend

Raises:

QiskitBackendNotFoundError – if no backend could be found or more than one backend matches the filtering criteria.