qiskit.providers.aer.AerProvider

class AerProvider(*args, **kwargs)

Provider for Qiskit Aer backends.

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

Methods

__init__(*args, **kwargs)	Initialize self.
backends([name, filters])	Return a list of backends matching the specified filtering.
get_backend([name])	Return a single backend matching the specified filtering.

backends(name=None, filters=None, **kwargs)

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[BaseBackend]

get_backend(name=None, **kwargs)

Return a single backend matching the specified filtering.

Parameters

• name (str) – name of the backend.

• **kwargs – dict used for filtering.

Returns

a backend matching the filtering.

Return type

BaseBackend

Raises

QiskitBackendNotFoundError – if no backend could be found or more than one backend matches the filtering criteria.