Release v0.31.0

Changelog

Version 0.31.0

Released November 2, 2023

Summary

This release contains several documentation improvements and some new additions. Quantum subspace expansion (QSE) is added to the user guide (thanks @bubakazouba). Thanks to our first time contributors @dubeyPraY for a new tutorial on using PennyLane and Mitiq in calculating the energy landscape of a simple variational circuit and @kozhukalov for adding the PEC noise level and calculated error to the calibration logs. We also removed support for python 3.8.

All changes

• Second incremental speed up of Mitiq tests [@Misty-W]
• More general conversion decorator and fix conversion bug in PEC (#2064) [@andreamari]
• Added Example for Mitiq in simple landscape for Pennylane (#2048) [@dubeyPraY]
• Indicate under active development on master (#2054) [@Misty-W]
• 2029 update contributing docs.md for references thumbnails viewing rtd build (#2053) [@bdg221]
• Add noise level to the PEC calibration log (#2045) [@kozhukalov]
• 2024 reduce documentation build time after classical shadows added (#2058) [@bdg221]
• Clean up GitHub CI (#2069) [@natestemen]
• remove binder directory (#2071) [@natestemen]
• drop support for python 3.8 (#2068) [nate stemen]
• Include calculated error in calibrator logs (#2038) [@kozhukalov]
• Adds QSE user guide (#1976) [@bubakazouba]

Dependency updates

• Bump openfermion from 1.5.1 to 1.6.0 (#2078) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit-aer requirement from ~=0.12.2 to ~=0.13.0 (#2076) [@dependabot]
• Bump pandas from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 (#2077) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit requirement from ~=0.44.2 to ~=0.44.3 (#2073) [@dependabot]
• Update scipy requirement from <=1.11.2,>=1.5.0 to >=1.5.0,<=1.11.3 (#2031) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit-ibm-provider requirement from ~=0.7.1 to ~=0.7.2 (#2072) [@dependabot]
• Update amazon-braket-sdk requirement from ~=1.55.1 to ~=1.59.2 (#2070) [@dependabot]
• Bump pyscf from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0 (#2055) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit requirement from ~=0.44.1 to ~=0.44.2 (#2041) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit-ibm-provider requirement from ~=0.7.0 to ~=0.7.1 (#2059) [@dependabot]
• Bump matplotlib from 3.7.3 to 3.8.0 (#2020) [@dependabot]
• Bump pandas from 2.0.3 to 2.1.1 (#2023) [@dependabot]
• Update pennylane-qiskit requirement from ~=0.31.0 to ~=0.32.0 (#1980) [@dependabot]
• Update seaborn requirement from ~=0.12.2 to ~=0.13.0 (#2037) [@dependabot]

New Contributors

• @kozhukalov made their first contribution in #2038
• @dubeyPraY made their first contribution in #2048

Full Changelog: v0.30.0...v0.31.0