XanaduAI/thewalrus v0.20.0

Release 0.20.0

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New features

• Implementation of gaussian boson sampling and gaussian boson sampling with threshold detectors. (#343)
• New function to produce Bloch-Messiah decomposition of symplectic matrices. (#352)

Improvements

• Added function to extend single mode symplectic to act on multiple modes. (#347)
• Added function to compute grouped (total) click probabilities for GBS setups using threshold detectors. The function uses the positive P-distribution simulation method of Drummond et al.. (#348)

Bug fixes

• Remove redundant call of Qmat, Amat from generate_hafnian_sample. (#343)

Documentation

• The centralized Xanadu Sphinx Theme is now used to style the Sphinx documentation. (#341)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Mikhail Andrenkov (@Mandrenkov), Sebastián Duque (@sduquemesa), Jacob Hastrup (@JacobHast), Antonín Hoskovec (@thonic), Martin Houde (@MHoude2), Benjamin Lanthier (@benjaminlanthier), Dominic Leclerc (@dleclerc33), Filippo Miatto (@ziofil), Will McCutcheon, Brandon Turcotte (@brandonpolymtl), Jiaqi Zhao (@JQZ1111)