AerProvider#

class AerProvider[source]#

Bases: ProviderV1

Provider for Aer backends.

Deprecated since version 1.1: The class qiskit.providers.provider.Provider is deprecated as of qiskit 1.1. It will be removed no earlier than 3 months after the release date. The abstract Provider and ProviderV1 classes are deprecated and will be removed in 2.0. You can just remove it as the parent class and a get_backend method that returns the backends from self.backend.

Attributes

version = 1#

Methods

backends(name=None, filters=None, **kwargs)[source]#

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)[source]#

Return a single backend matching the specified filtering.

Deprecated since version 1.1: The method qiskit.providers.provider.ProviderV1.get_backend() is deprecated as of qiskit 1.1. It will be removed no earlier than 3 months after the release date. The abstract Provider and ProviderV1 classes are deprecated and will be removed in 2.0. You can just remove it as the parent class and a get_backend method that returns the backends from self.backend.

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.