Pennylane-qulacs

New features since last release

Improvements 🛠

Breaking changes 💔

Deprecations 👋

Documentation 📝

Bug fixes 🐛

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

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Bug fixes 🐛

* Fix deprecated import path for `QubitDevice`.
[(74)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qulacs/pull/74)

Breaking changes 💔

* Remove support for Python 3.9.
[(78)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qulacs/pull/78)

* Upgrade minimum supported version of PennyLane to 0.38.0.
[(80)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qulacs/pull/80)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Astral Cai
Yushao Chen
Mudit Pandey

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New features since last release

* Added support for `Prod` observables.
[(64)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qulacs/pull/64)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Astral Cai

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Breaking changes

* Support for Python 3.8 has been removed, and support for 3.11 has been added.
[(55)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qulacs/pull/55)

Improvements

* Added support for `qml.StatePrep` as a state preparation operation.
[(54)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qulacs/pull/54)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Mudit Pandey,
Jay Soni

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Improvements

* Removed support for in-place inversion of operations (e.g. `qml.PauliX(0).inv()`). Users should
use `qml.adjoint` instead.
[(46)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qulacs/pull/46)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Albert Mitjans Coma

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Breaking changes

* Removes testing for Python 3.7.
[(43)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qulacs/pull/43)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Christina Lee

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