# PennyLane Lightning

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

PennyLane Lightning 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, Simulator, High Performance, GPU, and Open-Source. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

Lightning is the family of high-performance state-vector and tensor-network quantum simulators written in C++ for PennyLane. Includes lightning.qubit (CPU), lightning.gpu (CUDA), lightning.kokkos (multi-architecture), and lightning.tensor backends for accelerated circuit simulation on laptops, GPUs, and HPC clusters. Apache-2.0.

## 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 (9)

- [PennyLane](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/pennylane/)
- [Catalyst](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/catalyst/)
- [Strawberry Fields](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/strawberry-fields/)
- [MrMustard](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/mrmustard/)
- [The Walrus](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/thewalrus/)
- [Blackbird](https://apis.io/apis/xanadu/blackbird/)
- [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, Simulator, High Performance, GPU, Open-Source

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