getting a noisy simulation backend with the characteristics of a real one.

[petergthatsme]

I don't know if you guys have a forum or some other place for these sorts of questions - please point me to it, if this isn't it.

I was wondering if there is a simple way to get a noisy backend object that corresponds one of your current machines (i.e. it knows the coupling map, the native gate set, as well as the full noise model) for running simulations.

I was hoping, something along the lines of:

p = RigettiQCSProvider()
backend = p.get_simulator(name='Ankaa-9Q-1', noisy=True)

would work... but that does not seem to be the case. And the docs with relevant calls to get_qc that might do this, seem to be from some old versions of pyquil.

Thanks!