Yao v0.6.0 Release Notes

New Features

Symbolic Computation Support via SymEngine.
automatic differentiation support with reversibility based optimization
better CUDA performance in CuYao
unitary channel support in YaoBlocks#101
better measure with operators in YaoBlocks#100
yao script a mark up language for quantum circuit in YaoBlocks#92
new fidelity grad and operator fidelity grad. YaoBlocks#109

Documentation Improvements

new website! yaoquantum.org
new tutorial! tutorials.yaoquantum.org
new benchmark! yaoquantum.org/benchmark

Core component package changes

YaoBase changes

generic batch kron (#18) (Roger-luo)
make batched kron more general (#16) (GiggleLiu)
Fix measure dispatch (#22) (GiggleLiu)
fix measure (#20) (GiggleLiu)
add curried version of partial_tr (#19) (Roger-luo)

YaoArrayRegister changes

Closed issues:

instruct! ambiguity error in julia1.2 (#28)
The jldoctest fails (#26)

Merged pull requests:

fix type error when ctrl is an empty tuple (#35) (Roger-luo)
propagate inbounds (#34) (Roger-luo)
Transposed storage (#30) (GiggleLiu)
fix return type (#33) (Roger-luo)
fix partial bra * ket (#32) (Roger-luo)
add support for symbolic (#31) (Roger-luo)
Fix measure dispatch (#42) (GiggleLiu)
Fix collapseto (#40) (GiggleLiu)
Fix transpose copy (#39) (GiggleLiu)
Val(:H) instruct (#37) (GiggleLiu)

YaoBlocks changes

Fix rotation (#93) (Roger-luo)
fix repeat dispatch (#88) (GiggleLiu)
fix a typo (#85) (GiggleLiu)
fix measure, symad (#84) (GiggleLiu)
fix repeat performance issue (#83) (Roger-luo)
add Cz gate (#82) (Roger-luo)
run formatter (#65) (Roger-luo)
fix put(chain...) backward (#80) (GiggleLiu)
Fix sparsecheck on 1.3 (#77) (Roger-luo)
make expect syntax consistent (#74) (Roger-luo)
add more docs (#73) (Roger-luo)
automatic differentiation (#71) (GiggleLiu)
loose type constraints to support symbolic computation (#69) (Roger-luo)
Tree manipulation (#68) (GiggleLiu)
fix put(chain...) backward (#80) (GiggleLiu)
Noise (#104) (Roger-luo)
add unitary channel (#101) (Roger-luo)
better measure with op (#100) (GiggleLiu)
concentrate -> subroutine (#96) (Roger-luo)
New dump load (#92) (GiggleLiu)
transposed storage (#91) (GiggleLiu)
Dispatch Hadamard gate to specialized functions (#89) (GiggleLiu)
fix a typo (#85) (GiggleLiu)
add support to pair in chain (#72) (Roger-luo)

External dependencies

LuxurySparse

fix 1.3 compat (#25) (Roger-luo)
fix QuantumBFS#201 (#24) (Roger-luo)
add randn! and rand! and zero (#23) (GiggleLiu)
fix-nightly-ambiguity-error (#22) (GiggleLiu)
fix-diag to sparse conversion (#21) (GiggleLiu)
Specialize Broadcast (#33) (Roger-luo)
polish sparse interface, new hadamard product (#29) (GiggleLiu)