# PennyLane Lightning

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-lightning/  
**Provider:** Xanadu — https://apis.io/providers/xanadu-ai/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/lightning

PennyLane Lightning is one of 14 APIs that [Xanadu](https://apis.io/providers/xanadu-ai/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Simulators, State Vector, Tensor Networks, GPU, and HPC. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

The Lightning plugin family — `lightning.qubit` (C++ CPU), `lightning.gpu` (cuQuantum), and `lightning.kokkos` (multi-architecture HPC) — provides Xanadu's fast state-vector and tensor-network simulators for PennyLane. Designed for 20+ qubit research workflows and HPC integration.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/lightning/en/stable/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning
- **SDKs** — https://pypi.org/project/PennyLane-Lightning/

## Other Xanadu APIs (12)

- [PennyLane](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane/)
- [PennyLane Catalyst](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-catalyst/)
- [PennyLane Plugins](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-plugins/)
- [PennyLane Quantum Chemistry (qchem)](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-qchem/)
- [PennyLane Datasets](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/pennylane-datasets/)
- [Strawberry Fields](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/strawberry-fields/)
- [MrMustard](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/mrmustard/)
- [The Walrus](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/thewalrus/)
- [Jet](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/jet/)
- [FlamingPy](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/flamingpy/)
- [Blackbird Language](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/blackbird/)
- [XIR](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu-ai/xir/)

## Tags

Simulators, State Vector, Tensor Networks, GPU, HPC

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