PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qiskit v0.20.0

Release 0.20.0

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New features since last release

• Defined the QiskitDevice.batch_execute method, to allow Qiskit backends to run multiple quantum circuits at the same time. This addition allows submitting batches of circuits to IBMQ e.g., when computing gradients internally. (#156) (#163) (#167)

Improvements

• Added native support for the qml.Identity operation to the Qiskit devices and converters. (#162)

• Added support for the qml.SX operation to the Qiskit devices. (#158)

• Added support for returning job execution times. (#160)

• Added support for Python 3.10. (#170)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Guillermo Alonso-Linaje, David Ittah, Romain Moyard, Antal Száva.