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

Core component package changes

YaoBase changes

generic batch kron (#18) (Roger-luo)
make batched kron more general (#16) (GiggleLiu)

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)

YaoBlocks changes

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)

External dependencies

LuxurySparse

fix 1.3 compat (#25) (Roger-luo)
fix QuantumBFS/Yao.jl#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)

Documentation Improvements