# Blackbird

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/blackbird/  
**Provider:** Xanadu — https://apis.io/providers/xanadu/  
**Documentation:** https://quantum-blackbird.readthedocs.io/

Blackbird is one of 10 APIs that [Xanadu](https://apis.io/providers/xanadu/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Quantum Computing, Photonic, Assembly Language, DSL, and Open-Source. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

Blackbird is Xanadu's quantum assembly language and intermediate representation for continuous-variable photonic quantum computation. It is used to program Xanadu's photonic hardware (X-series, Borealis, Aurora) and the Strawberry Fields simulator. Apache-2.0.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://quantum-blackbird.readthedocs.io/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/XanaduAI/blackbird
- **SDKs** — https://pypi.org/project/quantum-blackbird/

## Other Xanadu APIs (9)

- [PennyLane](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/pennylane/)
- [Catalyst](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/catalyst/)
- [PennyLane Lightning](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/pennylane-lightning/)
- [Strawberry Fields](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/strawberry-fields/)
- [MrMustard](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/mrmustard/)
- [The Walrus](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/thewalrus/)
- [PennyLane-Qiskit Plugin](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/pennylane-qiskit/)
- [FlamingPy](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/flamingpy/)
- [Xanadu Cloud Client](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/xanadu-cloud-client/)

## Tags

Quantum Computing, Photonic, Assembly Language, DSL, Open-Source

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