What does setting the noisy=True flag do? (the detailed version...)

[mxn.wls]

Forest pyqvm backend

[josh]

Hi @mxn.wls!

The noisy keyword argument in the forest.pyqvm backend simply initializes a pyQVM quantum computer, with noisy=True. It is equivalent to the following pyQuil command:

qc = get_qc("9q-pyqvm", noisy=True)

For more details on the get_qc command and the pyQVM noise models, please see the pyQuil documentation:

• http://docs.rigetti.com/en/stable/apidocs/quantum_computer.html

• http://docs.rigetti.com/en/stable/apidocs/autogen/pyquil.noise.decoherence_noise_with_asymmetric_ro.html#pyquil.noise.decoherence_noise_with_asymmetric_ro