Version 0.4.0 & Qiskit<1.3 compatibility

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Environment

• Qiskit Algorithms version: 0.4.0
• Python version: 3.11
• Operating system: MacOS & Windows
• Qiskit version: 1.2.4

What is happening?

Version 0.4.0 requires qiskit>=1.0 however adapt_vqe (which is required when importing SPSA from qiskit_algorithms.optimizers import SPSA ) requires the evolved_operator_ansatz function which is only available from qiskit>=1.3.

For reference, this is the evolved_operator_ansatz function in qiskit version 1.3 compared to in qiskit version 1.2. Qiksit verison 1.2 only has the EvolvedOperatorAnsatz class while version 1.3 has both the EvolvedOperatorAnsatz class and evolved_operator_ansatz function that can be imported.

Downgrading qiskit-algorithms to version 0.3.1 fixes the error since in this version, the evolved_operator_ansatz is not being imported in adapt_vqe.

Here is the sample error: ImportError: cannot import name 'evolved_operator_ansatz' from 'qiskit.circuit.library'

How can we reproduce the issue?

1. Install qiskit-algorithms==0.4.0 and qiskit==1.2.4. pip install qiskit-algorithms==0.4.0 qiskit==1.2.4

2. Create a python file and try importing SPSA:

from typing import List
from scipy.optimize import minimize, dual_annealing, basinhopping, cobyla, BFGS
from qiskit_algorithms.optimizers import SPSA
from qiskit.result import CorrelatedReadoutMitigator
import scipy.linalg as la

4. Run the python file

What should happen?

You should an error and the traceback should include:

from qiskit.circuit.library import EvolvedOperatorAnsatz, evolved_operator_ansatz
ImportError: cannot import name 'evolved_operator_ansatz' from 'qiskit.circuit.library'

Any suggestions?

Stricter requirements. Requiring qiskit>=1.3 for qiskit-algorithms>=0.4.0