v0.26.0

Summary

Highlights from this release include functions for applying Pauli Twirling of CNOT and CZ gates, support for noise scaling by circuit layer in ZNE, functions to generate Quantum Phase Estimation benchmarking circuits, and a new example composing two Mitiq techniques: REM and ZNE.
Special thanks to UF Ambassadors Purva Thakre and Aaron Robertson for their contributions to this release!

The use of the Pauli Twirling module is demonstrated in the following code cell^*.

from mitiq import pt
twirled_value = pt.execute_with_pauli_twirling(circuit, expval_executor)

^*Thorough testing and documentation of Pauli Twirling to follow in future releases.
If any bugs or inconsistencies are encountered, please open an issue.

All changes

• CNOT twirling (#1802) [@natestemen]
• Compose REM + ZNE in Mitiq (#1745) [@Misty-W]
• bump nbsphinx (#1821) [@natestemen]
• Update pennylane requirement from ~=0.29.1 to ~=0.30.0 (#1819) [@dependabot[bot]]
• Update amazon-braket-sdk requirement from ~=1.37.1 to ~=1.38.0 (#1817) [@dependabot[bot]]
• Update amazon-braket-sdk requirement from ~=1.37.0 to ~=1.37.1 (#1804) [@dependabot[bot]]
• Support noise scaling by layer (#1767) [@vprusso]
• Remove version specificity from codecov/codecov-action (#1801) [@dependabot[bot]]
• Update pyquil requirement from ~=3.4.1 to ~=3.5.0 (#1793) [@dependabot[bot]]
• use 1.7.0 link for grove (#1803) [@natestemen]
• Remove allcontributors (#1791) [@natestemen]
• Update qiskit tutorial with ddd functions (#1762) [@Misty-W]
• Add calibration workflow to README (#1778) [@natestemen]
• Make W-state circuits available to use in Calibration (#1792) [@Misty-W]
• W State and QPE Benchmarking circuits in API Doc (#1785) [@purva-thakre]
• Update pyquil requirement from ~=3.4.0 to ~=3.4.1 (#1786) [@dependabot[bot]]
• Uprade python support to 3.11 (#1663) [@natestemen]
• Update pyquil requirement from ~=3.3.5 to ~=3.4.0 (#1784) [@dependabot[bot]]
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 (#1781) [@dependabot[bot]]
• Quantum Phase Estimation Benchmarking Circuit (#1775) [@purva-thakre]