qiskit-community / qiskit-braket-provider

Qiskit-Braket provider to execute Qiskit programs on quantum computing hardware devices through Amazon Braket.
https://qiskit-community.github.io/qiskit-braket-provider/
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Include all gates in simulator targets #147

Closed speller26 closed 5 months ago

speller26 commented 5 months ago

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Prior to this change, simulator targets and QPU targets alike were limited to up to 2q gates. Although no Braket devices are subject to these restrictions, this restriction still makes sense for QPUs because there is no analog of coupling map (and corresponding properties) for 3+ qubits. However, Braket simulators do not have a notion of coupling map, and gates can be applied to any qubit without impacting result quality. As such, this change removes this restriction for simulators.