Version 0.4.1

Bug fixes

• Remove opening of requirements.txt from within setup.py. This avoids a FileNotFoundError if installing via pip, as Python renames this file during packaging to requires.txt.
  (#53)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Josh Izaac

v0.4.0

Updating the plugin to work with PL version 0.4. Changes

• Adds support for PennyLane version 0.4. This includes:

  • Renaming expectation -> observable in various places in the documentation
  • Device.expectations -> Device.observables
  • Device.pre_expval -> Device.pre_measure
  • Device.post_expval -> Device.

• Adds support for pennylane.var() QNode return type

• Updates the minimum required PennyLane version to 0.4

• Update the documentation to reflect PennyLane v0.4 support

Release 0.2.1

Bug fix release. Allows PennyLane-ProjectQ devices to be used with all newer version of PennyLane, not just version 0.2.0.

Release 0.2

New features since last release

• Adds support for PennyLane v0.2
• Increases the number of supported measurements on the IBM backend by automatically applying operations before the the final measurement (which is always in the PauliZ basis) (#38)
• Adds support for the new PennyLane Identity expectation in all devices provided by this plugin (#36)
• The simulator backend now supports the simulation of finite statistics expectation values if shots!=0, by sampling from the exact probability distribution (#35)

Improvements

• Improved the documentation of specifying credentials via the configuration file (#48)
• Improves the handling of kwargs and the corresponding documentation (#39)
• Corrected and improved documentation of the supported operations

Contributors

This release contains contributions from:

Christian Gogolin

Release 0.1

First public release of PennyLane ProjectQ plugin.

Contributors

This release contains contributions from:

Christian Gogolin, Maria Schuld, Josh Izaac, Nathan Killoran, and Ville Bergholm.