Pennylane-cirq

Breaking changes 💔

* Python 3.8 support is dropped and Python 3.11 support is added.
[(146)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/146)

Bug fixes 🐛

* The plugin is updated to take `qml.StatePrep` operators, the new name for `qml.QubitStateVector`.
[(146)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/146)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Christina Lee

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Improvements

* Failing tests corrected to reflect the new shots validation in PennyLane
[(138)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/138)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Matthew Silverman

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New features since last release

* Support for adjoint operators has been added.
[(130)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/130)

Breaking changes

* Support for inverse operators has been removed.
Note that the `inv()` method and `inverse` property are removed from PennyLane operators as of PennyLane 0.29.
[(130)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/130)

* Bumps the required PennyLane version to v0.29.0.
[(137)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/137)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Christina Lee, Matthew Silverman

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New features since last release

* Adds support for Python 3.10.
[(123)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/123)

Breaking changes

* Removes support for Python 3.7.
[(123)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/123)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Christina Lee

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New features since last release

* Support `ISWAP`, `SISWAP`, and their adjoints.
[(114)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/114)

* Support a variety of operations raised to a power.
[(115)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/115)

Breaking changes

* Removed the unnecessary `CPhase` and `ISWAP` operations from the
plugin's custom support because PennyLane supports them.
[(115)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/115)

Improvements

* Pass all the qubits as `qubit_order` parameter to force
the simulator not to ignore idle qubits.
[(111)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/111)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Oumarou Oumarou, Matthew Silverman

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Bug fixes

* Defines the missing `returns_state` entry of the
`capabilities` dictionary for devices.
[(107)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/107)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Antal Száva

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