v0.6.0

Summary

The automated workflows for builds and releases are improved and PyPI releases are now automated.
We have more documentation on PEC and have a new tutorial on QAOA with Mitiq, as well as some miscellaneous bug fixes.

All Changes

• Improve CI and release/patch workflow and documentation (@crazy4pi314 gh-566).
• Adding a Mitiq Enhancement Proposal template and process (@crazy4pi314 gh-563).
• Add to the documentation papers citing Mitiq, close gh-424 (@nathanshammah gh-560).
• Added a new tutorial where MaxCut is solved with a mitigated QAOA (@andreamari, gh-562).
• Bumping the version of Qiskit version in dev_requirements (@andreamari gh-554)
• Retain measurement order when folding Qiskit circuits (@rmlarose gh-557)
• Standardize and touch up docs (@rmlarose gh-553)
• Adding make doc-clean command (@crazy4pi314 gh-549)
• Fix and refactor RB circuits function (@rmlarose gh-539)
• Improve GateOperation simplification in exponents (@rmlarose gh-541)

v0.5.0

Summary

The implementation of Probabilistic Error Cancellation is now multi-platform and documented in the docs (for the moment only in the Getting Started section). A new infrastructure based on MyST can now be used for writing the documentation and, in particular, for adding new examples in the Mitiq Examples section.

All Changes

• Adding documentation section for examples, support for Jyupyter notebooks (@crazy4pi314, gh-509).
• Add minimal documentation for PEC in the Getting Started (@andreamari, gh-532).
• Optionally return a dictionary with all pec data in execute_with_pec (@andreamari, gh-518).
• Added local_depolarizing_representations and Choi-based tests (@andreamari, gh-502).
• Add multi-platform support for PEC (@rmlarose, gh-500).
• Added new plot_data and plot_fit methods for factories(@crazy4pi314 @elmandouh, gh-333).
• Fixes random failure of PEC sampling test(@rmlarose, gh-481).
• Exact copying of shell commands, update make target for pdf and update development version(@rmlarose, gh-469).
• Add a new FakeNodesFactory class based on an alternative interpolation method (@elmandouh, gh-444).
• Remove duplication of the reduce method in every (non-adaptive) factory (@elmandouh, gh-470).

v0.4.1

Summary

This release fixes a bug in the docs.

All Changes

• [Bug Fix] Fix IBMQ guide (@rmlarose, gh-488).

v0.4.0

Summary

This release adds new getter methods for fit errors, extrapolation curves, etc. in ZNE factory objects as well as custom types for noisy operations, noisy bases, and decompositions in PEC. It also includes small updates and fixes to the documentation, seeding options for PEC sampling functions, and bug fixes for a few non-deterministic test failures.

All Changes

• Add reference to review paper in docs (@willzeng, gh-423).
• Add unitary folding API to RTD (@rmlarose, gh-429).
• Add theory subsection on PEC in docs (@elmandouh, gh-428).
• Fix small typo in documentation function name (@nathanshammah, gh-435).
• Seed Qiskit simulator to fix non-deterministic test failure (@rmlarose, gh-425).
• Fix formatting typo and include hyperlinks to documentation objects (@nathanshammah, gh-438).
• Remove error in docs testing without tensorflow (@nathanshammah, gh-439).
• Add seed to PEC functions (@rmlarose, gh-432).
• Consolidate functions to generate randomized benchmarking circuits in different platforms, and clean up pyquil utils (@rmlarose, gh-426).
• Add new get methods (for fit errors, extrapolation curve, etc.) to Factory objects (@crazy4pi314, @andreamari, gh-403).
• Update notebook version in requirements to resolve vulnerability found by security bot.(@nathanshammah, gh-445).
• Add brief description of noise and error mitigtation to readme (@rmlarose, gh-422).
• Fix broken links in documentation (@purva-thakre, gh-448).
• Link to stable RTD instead of latest RTD in readme (@rmlarose, gh-449).
• Add option to automatically deduce the number of samples in PEC (@andreamari, gh-451).
• Fix PEC sampling bug (@rmlarose, gh-453).
• Add types for PEC (@rmlarose, gh-408).
• Add warning for large samples in PEC (@sid1993, gh-459).
• Seed a PEC test to avoid non-deterministic failure (@andreamari, gh-460).
• Update contributing docs (@purva-thakre, gh-465).

Thanks @purva-thakre, @sid1993, @elmandouh for their contributions to this release!

v0.3.0

Summary

Factories now support "batched" executors, meaning that when a backend allows for the batch execution of a collection of quantum circuits, factories can now leverage that functionality. In addition, the main focus of this release was implementing probabilistic error cancellation (PEC), which was introduced in Temme2017 as a method for quantum error mitigation. We completed a first draft of the major components in the PEC workflow, and in the next release plan to demonstrate the full end-to-end operation of the new technique.

All Changes

• Fix broken links on the website (@erkska, gh-400).
• Use cirq v0.9.0 instead of cirq-unstable (@karalekas, gh-402).
• Update mitiq.about() (@rmlarose, gh-399).
• Refresh the release process documentation (@karalekas, gh-392).
• Redesign factories, batch runs in BatchedFactory, fix Qiskit utils tests (@rmlarose, @andreamari, gh-381).
• Add note on batched executors to docs (@rmlarose, gh-405).
• Added Tensorflow Quantum executor to docs (@k-m-schultz, gh-348).
• Fix a collection of small build & docs issues (@karalekas, gh-410).
• Add optimal QPR decomposition for depolarizing noise (@karalekas, gh-371).
• Add PEC basic implementation assuming a decomposition dictionary is given (@andreamari, gh-373).
• Make tensorflow requirements optional for docs (@karalekas, gh-417).

Thanks to @erkska and @k-m-schultz for their contributions to this release!

v0.2.0

Announcements

The preprint for Mitiq is live on the arXiv here!

Summary

This release centered on source code reorganization and documentation, as well as wrapping up some holdovers from the initial public release. In addition, the team began investigating probabilistic error cancellation (PEC), which will be the main focus of the following release.

All Changes

• Re-organize scaling code into its own module (@rmlarose, gh-338).
• Add BibTeX snippet for arXiv citation (@karalekas, gh-351).
• Fix broken links in PR template (@rmlarose, gh-359).
• Add limitations of ZNE section to docs (@rmlarose, gh-361).
• Add static extrapolate method to all factories (@andreamari, gh-352).
• Removes barriers in conversions from a Qiskit circuit (@rmlarose, gh-362).
• Add arXiv badge to readme header (@nathanshammah, gh-376).
• Add note on shot list in factory docs (@rmlarose, gh-375).
• Spruce up the README a bit (@karalekas, gh-383).
• Make mypy checking stricter (@karalekas, gh-380).
• Add pyQuil executor examples and benchmarking circuits (@karalekas, gh-339).

v0.1.0

Summary

This marks the first public release of Mitiq on a stable version.

All Changes

• Add the angle module for parameter noise scaling (@yhindy, gh-288).
• Add to the documentation instructions for maintainers to make a new release (@nathanshammah, gh-332).
• Add basic compilation facilities, don't relabel qubits (@karalekas, gh-324).
• Update readme (@rmlarose, gh-330).
• Add mypy type checking to CI, resolve existing issues (@karalekas, gh-326).
• Add readthedocs badge to readme (@nathanshammah, gh-329).
• Add change log as markdown file (@nathanshammah, gh-328).
• Add documentation on mitigating the energy landscape for QAOA MaxCut on two qubits (@rmlarose, gh-241).
• Simplify inverse gates before conversion to QASM (@andreamari, gh-283).
• Restructure library with zne/ subpackage, modules renaming (@nathanshammah, gh-298).
• [Bug Fix] Fix minor problems in executors documentation (@andreamari, gh-292).
• Add better link to docs and more detailed features (@andreamari, gh-306).
• [Bug Fix] Fix links and author list in README (@willzeng, gh-302).
• Add new sections and more explanatory titles to the documentation's guide (@nathanshammah, gh-285).
• Store optimal parameters after calling reduce in factories (@rmlarose, gh-318).
• Run CI on all commits in PRs to master and close #316 (@karalekas, gh-325).
• Add Unitary Fund logo to the documentation html and close #297 (@nathanshammah, gh-323).
• Add circuit conversion error + tests (@rmlarose, gh-321).
• Make test file names unique (@rmlarose, gh-319).
• Update package version from v. 0.1a2, released, to 0.10dev (@nathanshammah, gh-314).

Mitiq v.0.1a2

Mitiq first open source release, also on PyPI.

Mitiq v.0.1a1

This is Mitiq first release!