Release 0.14.0

[lsolbach]

Release 0.14.0

Changelog

• simulator enhancements
  • renamed simulator namespace to ideal-simulator
    • transports the role of the simulator
  • renamed noisy-simulator namespace to hardware-simulator
    • transforming noisy simulator in a full quantum hardware simulator
    • use device profiles for max qubits, native gates, topology and noise model
    • optimize circuits for native gate set and topology
  • integrating result extraction in simulators (work in progress)
    done for ideal simulator
• removed native hardware gate sets from operation-registry
  • device profiles provide the information about native gates
• improved noise application in noisy simulator
• added density matrix functions in state, obervables and hamiltonian namespaces
• improved measurement probabilities calculation for observables
• improved vector encoding and accuracy assesment in HHL algorithm
• improved Simon's algorithm
• integrating result extraction in algorithms (work in progress)
  • done for Deutsch, BV, Simon, Grover and QPE
• moved QPE related functions from quantum-period-finging to quantum-phase-estimation
• improved complex linear algebra backends
  • fixed bug in eigen-hermitian in fastmath backend
  • sorted eigen decompositions consistently across functions and backends
  • fixed matrix-log to compute the complex logarithm in the case of negative eigenvalues too
  • added diagonal? to MatrixAlgebra protocol and implementations
• added and improved docstrings
• updated the tutorial

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