Support Qiskit parametrized circuits

[josh146]

Qiskit now support building parametrized quantum circuits, see https://qiskit.org/documentation/terra/custom_gates.html#parameterized-gates.

The advantage of parametrized circuits is that Qiskit only needs to compile it once, and then can re-use the same parametrized circuit for different parameter values. This can lead to a significant speedup when working with variational quantum circuits.

Once PennyLaneAI/pennylane#221 is implemented in core PennyLane, the plugin will be able to access the dictionary mapping parameters to operations. The Qiskit plugin will then be able to construct a parametrized circuit, and simply reuse this circuit for different parameter values (until the QNode requests a different circuit topology).

[antalszava]

@josh146 this seems to be available by now, right?

[josh146]

I don't believe so (unless I am mistaken) -- it looks like the plugin is still simply building a new numeric program every time:

pennylane-qiskit/pennylane_qiskit/qiskit_device.py

Line 248 in 1e152c7

par = operation.parameters