Qibo 0.1.8-rc0

What's Changed

• adding acat2021 proceedings by @scarrazza in #551
• Adding channels to circuit.draw() by @andrea-pasquale in #550
• Add identity symbol by @stavros11 in #557
• Add support for sparse matrices in Hamiltonians by @stavros11 in #542
• Full state callback by @stavros11 in #559
• Fix sampling when using circuit.add() by @andrea-pasquale in #564
• Raise error if QAOA Hamiltonians have different nqubits by @stavros11 in #565
• Relax probability sum check in UnitaryChannel by @stavros11 in #566
• Add noise model by @andrea-pasquale in #572
• Multi-qubit fusion by @stavros11 in #577
• Add light cone method to circuit by @stavros11 in #578
• Fix pickle for the backend object by @stavros11 in #579
• Fix backend pickle by @stavros11 in #581
• testing distributed circuits with cupy by @scarrazza in #588
• qibotf removal by @scarrazza in #587
• Fix noise model by @andrea-pasquale in #583
• Circuit to unitary matrix by @stavros11 in #585
• Adding TSP class section in doc by @andrea-pasquale in #602
• Hamiltonians refactor by @andrea-pasquale in #595
• Tsp branch by @shangtai in #599
• Circuit result by @stavros11 in #589
• Refactor callbacks by @stavros11 in #593
• Complete channel refactoring by @stavros11 in #594
• Time evolution refactoring by @stavros11 in #603
• Add Tensorflow backend by @stavros11 in #596
• Variational models refactor by @andrea-pasquale in #606
• Distributed circuit refactoring by @stavros11 in #604
• Update docs by @stavros11 in #610
• Fix examples by @stavros11 in #611
• Fixing parallel by @scarrazza in #612
• Add environment flag for default qibo backend by @stavros11 in #613
• Fix coverage by @stavros11 in #614
• Fix tf.math.mod on GPU by @stavros11 in #616
• Backend agnostic circuits by @stavros11 in #584
• Add qibolab backend by @stavros11 in #617
• Delegate CircuitResult.probabilities() to the backend by @stavros11 in #618
• Remove VariationalLayer by @stavros11 in #619
• Add dill tests by @stavros11 in #621
• Fix TSP test by @stavros11 in #620
• Fix docs compilation by @stavros11 in #623
• Add refactored TSP model by @stavros11 in #615
• Fix test failing on GPU by @stavros11 in #624
• Adding CuQuantum version in docs by @andrea-pasquale in #622

New Contributors

• @shangtai made their first contribution in #599

Full Changelog: v0.1.7...v0.1.8-rc0