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+
+"""
+\********************************************************************************
+* Copyright (c) 2023 the Qrisp authors
+*
+* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+* terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at
+* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+*
+* This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+* Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
+* Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
+* with the GNU Classpath Exception which is
+* available at https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+*
+* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+********************************************************************************/
+"""
+
+from qrisp.interface.virtual_backend import VirtualBackend
+
+from qiskit import QuantumCircuit
+
+from qiskit_aqt_provider import AQTProvider
+from qiskit_aqt_provider.primitives import AQTSampler
+
+class AQTBackend(VirtualBackend):
+    """
+    This class instantiates a VirtualBackend using an AQT backend.
+    This allows easy access to AQT backends through the qrisp interface.
+
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    backend : AQT backend object, optional
+        An AQT backend object, which runs QuantumCircuits. The default is
+        provider.get_backend("offline_simulator_no_noise").
+    port : int, optional
+        The port to listen. The default is 8079.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+
+    We evaluate a QuantumFloat multiplication on the QASM-simulator.
+
+    >>> from qrisp import QuantumFloat
+    >>> from qrisp.interface import AQTBackend
+    >>> from qiskit_aqt_provider import AQTProvider
+    >>> provider = AQTProvider("ACCESS_TOKEN")
+    >>> example_backend = AQTBackend(backend = provider.get_backend("offline_simulator_no_noise")
+    >>> qf = QuantumFloat(4)
+    >>> qf[:] = 3
+    >>> res = qf*qf
+    >>> res.get_measurement(backend = example_backend)
+    {9: 1.0}
+
+
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, backend=None, port=None):
+        if backend is None:
+
+            # Select an execution backend.
+            # Any token (even invalid) gives access to the offline simulation backends.
+            provider = AQTProvider("ACCESS_TOKEN")
+            backend = provider.get_backend("offline_simulator_no_noise")
+
+
+        # Create the run method
+        def run(qasm_str, shots=None, token=""):
+            if shots is None:
+                shots = 100000
+            # Convert to qiskit
+            from qiskit import QuantumCircuit
+
+            qiskit_qc = QuantumCircuit.from_qasm_str(qasm_str)
+
+            # Make circuit with one monolithic register
+            new_qiskit_qc = QuantumCircuit(len(qiskit_qc.qubits), len(qiskit_qc.clbits))
+            for instr in qiskit_qc:
+                new_qiskit_qc.append(
+                    instr.operation,
+                    [qiskit_qc.qubits.index(qb) for qb in instr.qubits],
+                    [qiskit_qc.clbits.index(cb) for cb in instr.clbits],
+                )
+            
+            # Instantiate a sampler on the execution backend.
+            sampler = AQTSampler(backend)
+
+            # Optional: set the transpiler's optimization level.
+            # Optimization level 3 typically provides the best results.
+            sampler.set_transpile_options(optimization_level=3)
+
+            # Sample the circuit on the execution backend.
+            result = sampler.run(new_qiskit_qc).result()
+
+            quasi_dist = result.quasi_dists[0]
+           
+            # Format to fit the qrisp result format
+            result_dic = {}
+
+            len = len(new_qiskit_qc.qubits) # number of qubits
+            for item in list(quasi_dist.keys()):
+
+                # transform to binary, fill to given length, and then reverse 
+                new_key = bin(item)[2:].zfill(len)[::-1] 
+                result_dic.setdefault(new_key, quasi_dist[item])
+
+            return result_dic
+
+        # Call VirtualBackend constructor
+        if isinstance(backend.name, str):
+            name = backend.name
+        else:
+            name = backend.name()
+
+        super().__init__(run, port=port)
+
+def VirtualAQTBackend(*args, **kwargs):
+    import warnings
+    warnings.warn("Hardware Backend and Access Token TBD")
+    return AQTBackend(*args, **kwargs)
+
+