IonQ Provider

Provider for interacting with IonQ backends

class qiskit_ionq.ionq_provider.BackendService(backends)

A service class that allows for autocompletion of backends from provider.

Initialize service

Parameters:

backends (list) – List of backend instances.

class qiskit_ionq.ionq_provider.IonQProvider(token: str = None, url: str = None, custom_headers: dict = None)

Provider for interacting with IonQ backends

credentials

A dictionary containing token and url keys, whose values are an IonQ API Access Token and IonQ API URL, respectively.

Type:

dict[str, str]

get_backend(name=None, gateset='qis', **kwargs)

Return a single backend matching the specified filtering. :param name: name of the backend. :type name: str :param gateset: language used (QIS or native), defaults to QIS. :type gateset: str :param **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.

qiskit_ionq.ionq_provider.resolve_credentials(token: str = None, url: str = None)

Resolve credentials for use in IonQ Client API calls.

If the provided token and url are both None, then these values are loaded from the QISKIT_IONQ_API_TOKEN and QISKIT_IONQ_API_URL environment variables, respectively.

If no url is discovered, then https://api.ionq.co/v0.3 is used.

Parameters:

• token (str) – IonQ API access token.

• url (str, optional) – IonQ API url. Defaults to None.

Returns:

A dict with “token” and “url” keys, for use by a client.

Return type:

dict[str]