MQT Core 2.4.0 Release

👀 What Changed

Quite a big release for MQT Core. Highlights include:

• ⚡ adoption of the new identity-less DD data structure that significantly boosts the overall performance (#358) and several further improvements to the DD package code
• ✨ new optimization pass to collect qubit blocks
• ♻️ refactored and simplified Operation class hierarchy
• 🤖 adoption of uv as a package manager in CI
• 🔧 update to pybind11>=2.12

⚛️ MQT Core

• ♻️ internalize private methods of the circuit optimizer @burgholzer (#585)
• ♻️⚡ optimize implementation of collectBlocks @burgholzer (#584)
• ✨ Collect blocks optimization @burgholzer (#581)
• ⬆️ update to pybind11>=2.12 @burgholzer (#582)
• ♻️ Eliminate nqubits and startingQubit from Operation class hierarchy @burgholzer (#574)
• 🐛 Fix scientific notation in QASM import @burgholzer (#560)

⚖️ MQT Core DD Package

• ♻️ remove redundant start parameter from DD multiplication routine @burgholzer (#576)
• ♻️ streamline makeTwoQubitGateDD method @burgholzer (#572)
• ♻️ streamline makeGateDD method @burgholzer (#571)
• ✨ Removal of identity nodes in matrix DDs @aaronleesander (#358)
• 🐛 Density matrix idenity handling @burgholzer (#569)
• ⚡ optimize conjugate transpose in DD package @burgholzer (#570)
• 🐛 fix check for density matrices in compute tables @burgholzer (#568)
• 🚸 Improved usability for new magnitude addition functionality @burgholzer (#565)
• ✨ add method for computing the conjugate of a vector DD @burgholzer (#566)
• ♻️ Refactor garbage reduction @reb-ddm (#563)
• 🩹 fixes for noise-aware simulation in DDSIM @burgholzer (#551)

🚀 Features and Enhancements

• ✨ ♻️ Adopt UV in CI and refactor reusable workflows @burgholzer (#583)
• ✨ Collect blocks optimization @burgholzer (#581)
• ♻️ remove redundant start parameter from DD multiplication routine @burgholzer (#576)
• ♻️ streamline makeTwoQubitGateDD method @burgholzer (#572)
• ♻️ streamline makeGateDD method @burgholzer (#571)
• ✨ Removal of identity nodes in matrix DDs @aaronleesander (#358)
• ⚡ optimize conjugate transpose in DD package @burgholzer (#570)
• 🚸 Improved usability for new magnitude addition functionality @burgholzer (#565)
• ✨ add method for computing the conjugate of a vector DD @burgholzer (#566)
• ♻️ Refactor garbage reduction @reb-ddm (#563)
• 🚸 allow using raw RST cells in jupyter notebooks @burgholzer (#558)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🐛 Density matrix idenity handling @burgholzer (#569)
• 🐛 fix check for density matrices in compute tables @burgholzer (#568)
• 🐛 Fix scientific notation in QASM import @burgholzer (#560)
• 🩹 fixes for noise-aware simulation in DDSIM @burgholzer (#551)

📄 Documentation

• 🚸 allow using raw RST cells in jupyter notebooks @burgholzer (#558)
• 📝🎨 better dark mode docs @burgholzer (#557)

🤖 CI

• ✨♻️ Adopt UV in CI and refactor reusable workflows @burgholzer (#583)
• 🚚 Move from Cirrus CI back to GitHub Actions @burgholzer (#553)

🧹 Code Quality

• ♻️ internalize private methods of the circuit optimizer @burgholzer (#585)
• ♻️⚡ optimize implementation of collectBlocks @burgholzer (#584)
• 🚨 fix a couple of compiler warnings @burgholzer (#578)

⬆️ Dependencies

10 changes

• ✨ ♻️ Adopt UV in CI and refactor reusable workflows @burgholzer (#583)
• ⬆️ update to pybind11>=2.12 @burgholzer (#582)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#579)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#577)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#573)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#564)
• Bump the github-actions group with 1 update @dependabot (#562)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#561)
• Bump the github-actions group with 1 update @dependabot (#559)
• 🚚 Move from Cirrus CI back to GitHub Actions @burgholzer (#553)

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.4.0