Release v0.16.0

Changelog

Version 0.16.0 (June 3rd, 2022)

Summary

This release officially adds support for the digital dynamical decoupling (DDD) technique which is now fully documented and so ready to be applied by Mitiq users. This is still very new technique and so, if you notice any bugs, please let us know by
opening issues on GihHub.
A further notable addition is the function generate_quantum_volume_circuit() by @nickdgardner, extending the Mitiq benchmarking module with quantum volume
circuits.

Congratulations to the new member of the Mitiq team @natestemen and special thanks to the external contributors @Aaron-Robertson, @nickdgardner, @ZhaoyiLi-HekJukZaaiZyuJan and @amirebrahimi!

All Changes

• Add section 2 (use case) on DDD to user guide (@nathanshammah, gh-1304)
• Update DDD options documentation (third section) (@andreamari, gh-1327)
• Add additional options subsection for DDD (third section) (@Aaron-Robertson, gh-1326)
• Add theory subsection for DDD (fifth section) (@andreamari, @natestemen, gh-1311)
• Update amazon-braket-sdk requirement from ~=1.19.0 to ~=1.24.0 (@dependabot gh-1324, gh-1310, gh-1306, gh-1303, gh-1297, gh-1278, gh-1271)
• Ensure lists in documentation are displayed properly (@natestemen, gh-1322)
• Add quantum volume circuits to benchmarking module (@nickdgardner, gh-1281)
• Update readme table with DDD (@andreamari, gh-1318)
• Test PR for unitaryhack test bounty (@nathanshammah, gh-1317)
• Fixes unexpected error from repeated rule (@Aaron-Robertson, gh-1316)
• Update mypy requirement from ~=0.950 to ~=0.960 (@dependabot, gh-1314)
• Use single URL when referring to google style (@natestemen, gh-1309)
• Update close-stale.yml (@andreamari, gh-1295)
• Update contributing docs (@amirebrahimi, gh-1305)
• Add fourth section of DDD docs (@andreamari, gh-1276)
• Fix citation file (@natestemen, gh-1299)
• Write the first sub-section of the DDD guide: How do I use DDD? (@Misty-W, gh-1277)
• Update qiskit requirement from ~=0.36.1 to ~=0.36.2 (@dependabot, gh-1302)
• Rename test_randomized_benchmaking.py to test_randomized_benchmarking.py (@nickdgardner, gh-1284)
• Fix broken links in docs (@andreamari, gh-1282)
• Create file structure (@andreamari, gh-1275)
• Update pennylane requirement from ~=0.23.0 to ~=0.23.1 (@dependabot, gh-1274)
• Fixed typo in documentation formula (@ZhaoyiLi-HekJukZaaiZyuJan, gh-1246)
• Update version to 0.16dev (@nathanshammah, gh-1268)