amazon-braket-default-simulator-kshitijc 1.11.2.dev0
An open source quantum circuit simulator to be run locally with the Amazon Braket SDK
License: Apache License 2.0
Requires Python: >= 3.7
Keywords: Amazon AWS Quantum

# Amazon Braket Default Simulator

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The Amazon Braket Default Simulator is a Python open source library that provides an implementation of a quantum simulator 
that you can run locally. You can use the simulator to test quantum tasks that you construct for the [Amazon Braket SDK](https://github.com/aws/amazon-braket-sdk-python)
before you submit them to the Amazon Braket service for execution.

## Setting up Amazon Braket Default Simulator Python
You must have the [Amazon Braket SDK](https://github.com/aws/amazon-braket-sdk-python) installed to use the local simulator.
Follow the instructions in the [README](https://github.com/aws/amazon-braket-sdk-python/blob/main/README.md) for setup.

**Checking the version of the default simulator**

You can check your currently installed version of `amazon-braket-default-simulator` with `pip show`:

```bash
pip show amazon-braket-default-simulator
```

or alternatively from within Python:

```
>>> from braket import default_simulator
>>> default_simulator.__version__
```

## Usage
The quantum simulator implementations `StateVectorSimulator` and `DensityMatrixSimulator` plug into the `LocalSimulator` interface in 
[Amazon Braket SDK](https://github.com/aws/amazon-braket-sdk-python), with the `backend` parameters as `"braket_sv"` and `"braket_dm"`, respectively.
Alternatively, to use `StateVectorSimulator`, you can instantiate `LocalSimulator` with no arguments or with `backend="default"`: 

**Executing a circuit using the default simulator**
```python
from braket.circuits import Circuit
from braket.devices import LocalSimulator

device = LocalSimulator()

bell = Circuit().h(0).cnot(0, 1)
print(device.run(bell, shots=100).result().measurement_counts)
```

## Documentation

Detailed documentation, including the API reference, can be found on [Read the Docs](https://amazon-braket-default-simulator-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

**To generate the API Reference HTML in your local environment**

First, install tox:

```bash
pip install tox
```

To generate the HTML, first change directories (`cd`) to position the cursor in the `amazon-braket-default-simulator-python` directory. Then, run the following command to generate the HTML documentation files:

```bash
tox -e docs
```

To view the generated documentation, open the following file in a browser:
`../amazon-braket-default-simulator-python/build/documentation/html/index.html`

## Testing

If you want to contribute to the project, be sure to run unit tests and get a successful result 
before you submit a pull request. To run the unit tests, first install the test dependencies using the following command:

```bash
pip install -e "amazon-braket-default-simulator-python[test]"
```

To run the unit tests:

```bash
tox -e unit-tests
```

You can also pass in various pytest arguments to run selected tests:

```bash
tox -e unit-tests -- your-arguments
```

For more information, please see [pytest usage](https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/usage.html).

To run linters and doc generators and unit tests:

```bash
tox
```

To run the performance tests:

```bash
tox -e performance-tests
```

These tests will compare the performance of a series of simulator executions for your changes against the latest commit on the main branch.
*Note*: The execution times for the performance tests are affected by the other processes running on the system.
In order to get stable results, stop other applications when running these tests.

## License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.