Release v0.12.0

Changelog

Version 0.12.0 (January 21st, 2022)

Summary

This release contains a considerable overhaul of the documentation organization and content:

• The guide is now divided into Core concepts and a new presentation of the quantum errror mitigation techniques (ZNE, PEC and CDR). Each technique contains subsections that explain with code snippets how to use them in Mitiq (gh-1021, gh-1004 gh-1031, gh-1099). Also the API doc has been extended and improved. Many thanks to @purva-thakre @Misty-W for their help on rewriting the documentation and reviewing the pull requests.
• An example on how to use ZNE to improve the calculations of the energy potential landscape of molecular Hydrogen using VQE was added by @andreamari.

New features

• GHZ circuits were added to the benchmark subpackage by @Rahul-Mistri.
• Airspeed-velocity (asv) has been added to the CI by @rmlarose.

All Changes

• Add core concepts guide page (@crazy4pi314, @nathanshammah, @andreamari, gh-1053)
• Add cdr-2-use-case.myst (gh-1099) (@andreamari, @nathanshammah)
• CDR documentation reorg (@nathanshammah, @andreamari, @crazy4pi314, gh-1031)
• Add molecular Hydrogen example (@andreamari, gh-1087)
• Update pydata-sphinx-theme requirement from ~=0.7.2 to ~=0.8.0 (@dependabot, gh-1091)
• Use raw.execute in asv benchmarks and remove GHZ circuits from asv (@rmlarose)
• Added GHZ circuits to benchmark (@Rahul-Mistri, gh-1089)
• Update scipy requirement from ~=1.7.2 to ~=1.7.3 (@dependabot
  , gh-1084)
• PR to trigger CI and fix a broken link (@andreamari, gh-1082)
• Fix readthedocs by changing a LaTex equation (@andreamari, @nathanshammah, gh-1077)
• Add asv benchmarking framework (@rmlarose, gh-1047)
• Update zne-3-options.myst (@andreamari, gh-1075)
• Update API doc with REM, executors and observables (@nathanshammah, gh-1050)
• ZNE Guide Reorg (@crazy4pi314, @Misty-W, @purva-thakre, @nathanshammah, @andreamari, gh-1021)
• Fix broken link on master. (@andreamari, gh-1069)
• Update mypy requirement from ~=0.910 to ~=0.930 (@dependabot, gh-1065)
• Docs: add AkashNarayanan as a contributor for infra (@allcontributors, gh-1059)
• Fixes #1034 release docs update (@crazy4pi314, @nathanshammah, gh-1054)
• Docs: add DSamuel1 as a contributor for code (@allcontributors, @Misty-W, gh-1056)
• Docs: add Misty-W as a contributor for code, example (@allcontributors, gh-1055)
• Docs: update README.md (@allcontributors)
• Update PEC docs (@andreamari, @nathanshammah, @rmlarose, gh-1004)
• Revert "Update mypy requirement from ~=0.910 to ~=0.920 (@nathanshammah, gh-1052)
• Update mypy requirement from ~=0.910 to ~=0.920 (@dependabot, gh-1051)
• Update pytest-xdist[psutil] requirement from ~=2.4.0 to ~=2.5.0 (@dependabot, gh-1044)
• Update amazon-braket-sdk requirement from ~=1.11.0 to ~=1.11.1 (@dependabot, gh-1042)
• Update pennylane requirement from ~=0.19.0 to ~=0.19.1 (@dependabot, gh-1029)
• Update amazon-braket-sdk requirement from ~=1.9.5 to ~=1.11.0 (@dependabot, gh-1038)