Qiskit Aer 0.8.1

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Fixed

• Normalize statevector save and snapshot for extended stabilizer method (#1221)
• Allow measure sampling with initialize (#1219)
• Add python iterables to to_json conversion method (#1217)
• Fix JSON serialized of empty data (#1218)
• Bug fix for MPS::apply_kraus (#1206)
• Disable GPU methods if no device available (#1213)

Qiskit Aer 0.8.0

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Added

• Add AerSimulator backend (#1194)
• Allow disabling of dependency installation in setup.py (#1135)
• Add instructions to set simulator state (#1163)
• Migrate to new provider interface (#1099)
• Support for saving statevector as ket dictionary (#820)
• Add general SaveState instruction (#1164)
• Add Fusion variations (#1110)
• Add arm64 release wheel jobs (#1162)
• Add SaveUnitary and SaveStabilizer instructions (#1136)
• Add SaveAmplitudes and SaveAmplitudesSquared instructions. (#1129)
• Add SaveProbabilities and SaveProbabilitiesDict instructions (#1117)
• Add SaveStatevector and SaveDensityMatrix instructions (#1116)
• Add new save expectation value instructions (#1101)
• Adding gates to the MPS simulator (#1088)
• Parallel Qiskit Aer (GPU + MPI) by using cache blocking transpiler (#788)
• parallelize fusion transpilation (#1103)
• Enhancement of multi-controlled gates (#1076)
• Compile CUDA on win (#1065)
• Cmake: make conan optional (#999)
• Add PauliGate to density matrix simulator (#1012)
• Multiple Pauli gates operation (#919)

Changed

• Add SaveStatevector and SaveDensityMatrix instructions (#1116)
• Add new save expectation value instructions (#1101)

Fixed

• Fixed bug in apply_kraus in matrix_product_state (#1188)
• Add reading of qubit_lo_freq from pulse Schedule config (#1185)
• Always set config.local to True (#1187)
• Fixed bug in sample_measure_using_probabilities (#1132)
• change default max_memory_mb from half to full system memory (#1152)
• Fix noise sampling for conditional gates (#1154)
• Fix macos tests in CI (#1115)
• Fix bugs in automatic updates of simulator configuration basis gates (#1109)
• Fix noise model basis_gates when constructing from device (#1108)
• Fixed normalization in MPS truncation (#1094)
• Fix condtional instructions using c_if not working for reg of size>=64 on BasicAer backend (#1089)
• Fix bug with nested omp being applied incorrectly (#1055)
• Fixed the tests and the revealed bugs (#1026)
• Corrected qubits ordering in MPS::sample_measure_using_probabilities. (#1011)
• Fixed bug in MPS::apply_kraus (#1003)
• Fix Aer provider to return new backend instances with backends/get_backend. (#1006)
• Fix bug in unsupported instructions error message (#1005)

Qiskit Aer 0.7.6

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Added

• Add arm64 release wheel jobs (#1162)

Fixed

• Fixed bug in sample_measure_using_probabilities (#1132)
• change default max_memory_mb from half to full system memory (#1152)
• Fix noise sampling for conditional gates (#1154)

Qiskit Aer 0.7.5

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Fixes

• Fix numpy compatibility with numpy < 1.20.0 in precompiled wheels (#1131)

Qiskit Aer 0.7.4

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Fixed

• Fix numpy 1.20.0 compatibility (#1115)

Qiskit Aer 0.7.3

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Fixed

• Fix bugs in automatic updates of simulator configuration basis gates (#1109)
• Fix noise model basis_gates when constructing from device (#1108)
• Fixed normalization in MPS truncation (#1094)
• Fix condtional instructions using c_if not working for reg of size>=64 on BasicAer backend (#1089)

Qiskit Aer 0.7.2

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Added

• Cmake: make conan optional (#999)

Fixed

• Fix bug with nested omp being applied incorrectly (#1055)

Qiskit Aer 0.7.1

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Fixed

• Corrected qubits ordering in MPS::sample_measure_using_probabilities. (#1011)
• Fixed bug in MPS::apply_kraus (#1003)
• Fix Aer provider to return new backend instances with backends/get_backend. (#1006)
• Fix bug in unsupported instructions error message (#1005)

Qiskit Aer 0.7.0

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Deprecated

• Add support for phase, sqrt(X), and delay gates to simulators (#951)

Added

• Fix fusion thresholds and defaults (#990)
• Add missing standard gate basis gates (#989)
• Move AVX2 logic into Transformer class and enable SIMD on Unitary, DensityMatrix, SuperOp (#961)
• MPS: Apply kraus (#915)
• Add support for phase, sqrt(X), and delay gates to simulators (#951)
• MPS: Support snapshot_density_matrix (#948)
• Add support for rotation gates to noise model and simulators (#914)
• Add custom Vector class (#932)
• Add qobj header global phase support (#931)
• Kraus noise gate fusion method (#927)

Removed

• Drop support for Python 3.5 (#917)

Fixed

• Fix snapshots being copied rather than moved (#971)
• Add available memory checks for Statevector and Unitary simulators (#969)
• Make controller_wrapper functions functors (#945)
• fix a bug in thread management tests (#918)
• Fix evaluation y expectation (#898)
• Fix bug in StatevectorSimulator preventing AVX2, GPU, and single-precision simulations (#872)

Qiskit Aer 0.6.1

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Fixed

• [Stable] Fix bug in StatevectorSimulator preventing AVX2, GPU, and single-precision simulations (#872) (#873)