v0.6.0

v0.6.0 (2019-12-23)

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 #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)

Diff since v0.5.1

Closed issues:

• Unreachable reached (#218)
• Upcoming naming and convension changes for Yao v0.6.0 (#215)
• Examples are broken on master (#212)
• Documentation updates for next release (#205)
• NoParams with empty circuit (#204)
• [RFC] resetto! or collapseto! (#203)
• [Feature request] Specify the parameters of expect' (#202)
• Error in expect' (#201)
• Proposal for the documentation (#198)
• CZ gate should be added to Yao.ConstGate (#197)
• Measure should take rng::AbstractRng as first argument (#194)
• error differentiating over mat using Zygote (#191)
• register package (#179)
• Grover & Shor algorithm example (#175)
• change chain interface (#174)
• Wrong highlight in documents & how to fix it (#171)
• Support for lowering to QASM (#124)
• [Visualization] Serialization Format (#19)

Merged pull requests:

• CompatHelper: bump compat for "YaoBlocks" to "0.10" (#225) (github-actions[bot])
• CompatHelper: bump compat for "YaoBlocks" to "0.9" (#224) (github-actions[bot])
• fix typos in README (#222) (wangleiphy)
• Documentation Fix CSS (#217) (Roger-luo)
• New Documentation (#216) (Roger-luo)
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for "Reexport" at version "0.2" (#211) (github-actions[bot])
• CompatHelper: bump compat for "YaoBase" to "0.12" (#210) (github-actions[bot])
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for "YaoSym" at version "0.2" (#209) (github-actions[bot])
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for "BitBasis" at version "0.6" (#208) (github-actions[bot])
• update benchmarks (#206) (Roger-luo)
• rm warning (#200) (Roger-luo)