Release v0.14.0

Changelog

Version 0.14.0 (April 6th, 2022)

Summary

This milestone focused on updating dependencies and making progress on two new features, dynamical decoupling and learning based error mitigation techniques. A number of high priority bugs and issues alo were fixed.

All Changes

• Update pennylane requirement from ~=0.22.1 to ~=0.22.2 (@dependabot, gh-1203)
• Update mypy requirement from ~=0.931 to ~=0.942 (@dependabot, gh-1183)
• Update pennylane-qiskit requirement from ~=0.20.0 to ~=0.22.0 (@dependabot, gh-1170)
• Update pennylane requirement from ~=0.21.0 to ~=0.22.1 (@dependabot, gh-1172)
• Update qiskit requirement from ~=0.34.2 to ~=0.35.0 (@dependabot, gh-1199)
• Update black requirement from ~=22.1 to ~=22.3 (@dependabot @andreamari @crazy4pi314, gh-1191)
• Avoid creation of empty moments when using fold_global (@andreamari, gh-1196)
• Merge pull request #1198 from unitaryfund/1140-raise-error-if-executo (@Misty-W)
• Port changes from old branch - workaround (@Misty-W)
• Merge pull request #1195 from unitaryfund/update-qiskit (@Misty-W)
• Update docs/source/guide/pec-3-options.myst @crazy4pi314 (@Misty-W)
• Merge branch 'master' into update-qiskit (@crazy4pi314)
• Update Cirq to 0.14 (@andreamari, gh-1193)
• fix pec-3-options notebook problem (@andreamari)
• Remove option to squash moments in global folding (@purva-thakre @andreamari, gh-1113)
• update qiskit and fix conversions (@andreamari)
• Idle qubits in conversion (@Aaron-Robertson, gh-1185)
• Add get_circuit_mask() for dynamical decoupling (@Aaron-Robertson, gh-1178)
• Update pydata-sphinx-theme requirement from ~=0.8.0 to ~=0.8.1 (@dependabot, gh-1188)
• Add get_slack_matrix_from_circuit_matrix() function for dynamical decoupling (@andreamari @Aaron-Robertson,gh-1178)
• Fix sphinx dependency problem (@andreamari , gh-1181)
• Create file structure for digital dynamical decoupling (@andreamari, gh-1175)
• adding pages publish step (@crazy4pi314,gh-1135)
• cast gate exponents to float (@andreamari,gh-1174)
• Update release.rst (@andreamari,gh-1145)
• Bump actions/setup-python from 2 to 3 (@dependabot, gh-1149)
• Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 (@dependabot, gh-1151)
• Update amazon-braket-sdk requirement from ~=1.15.0 to ~=1.17.0 (@dependabot, gh-1153)
• fixing install permissions, container user is root (@crazy4pi314 , gh-1147)