v0.7.0

Version 0.7.0 (April 7th, 2021)

Summary

This release focuses on contributions from the community.
Many thanks @yhindy for adding a method to parametrically scale noise in circuit, to @Aaron-Robertson and @pchung39 for adding Qiskit executors with depolarizing noise to the utils,
to @purva-thakre for several bug fixes and improvements. Thanks also to @BobinMathew and @marwahaha for typo corrections.

All Changes

• Pin docutils version to solve CI issues (@purva-thakre, gh-626)
• Add qiskit executor example for exact density matrix simulation with depolarizing noise (@Aaron-Robertson, gh-574)
• Replace Qiskit utils with Qiskit executors from docs (@pchung39, @Aaron-Robertson, gh-584)
• Change custom depolarizing channel in PEC (@purva-thakre, gh-615)
• Document codecov fetch depth change and increase codecov action version (@grmlarose, gh-618)
• Fix spelling typo (@marwahaha, gh-616)
• Add link for MEP (@purva-thakre, gh-610)
• Correct a typo in the readme (@BobinMathew, gh-609)
• Add represent_operations_in_circuit_... functions for PEC (@andreamari, gh-515)
• Add qiskit and cirq executor examples gifs to readme (@nathanshammah, gh-587)
• Add parametrized scaling (@yhindyYousef, gh-411)
• Fix mitiq.about() qiskit version (@Aaron-Robertson, gh-598)
• Fix typo in ZNE documentation (@purva-thakre, gh-602)
• Add minimal section on PEC to documentation (@nathanshammah @andreamari, gh-564)
• Various improvements to CI and testing (@rmlarose, gh-583)
• Corrects typo in docs of error mitigation guide (@purva-thakre, gh-585)
• Remove factory equality and fix bug in PolyExpFactory.extrapolate (@rmlarose, gh-580)
• [Bug Fix] Examples (notebooks) in the online documentation now have output code cells (@andreamari, gh-576)
• Update version to dev (@andreamari, gh-572)
• Change custom depolarizing channel in PEC test (@purva-thakre, gh-615)