Lab 1 · Thursday, October 22, 2026 · 8:00–9:20 AM · 3SC 265
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Session overview
- Set up a PennyLane programming environment
- Build quantum circuits with parameterized gates and observables
- Compute gradients using
qml.grad - Compare circuit syntax in PennyLane, Qiskit, and Cirq
Take-home activity: replicate a Bell-state experiment on a real quantum backend.
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