v0.40.0

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Highlights

🔉 A new quantum error-mitigation technique is available in Mitiq!
Layerwise Richardson Extrapolation is now available through mitiq.lre.execute_with_lre.
Documentation is also available in the user guide, with more advanced docs and demonstrations coming in the next release.
Special thanks to Purva Thakre for this contribution!

🥇 We had two first time contributions from @ecarlander and @mbrotos!
Thank you both for your contributions!

🛡️ A helpful error message is raised when passing data of the incorrect type to the MeasurementResult class, where before it silently gave confusing results.

✨ Enhancements

• LRE Executors (#2499) [@purva-thakre]
• LRE Inference Functions (#2447) [@purva-thakre]
• Raise TypeError when a dictionary is passed to MeasurementResult constructor (#2523) [@natestemen]

📓 Documentation

• Add theory, intro and use case pages of LRE user guide (#2522) [@purva-thakre]
• add QOSS survey banner (#2533) [@natestemen]
• Update broken link in the readme (#2528) [@purva-thakre]
• Move class documentation to class docstrings (#2525) [@natestemen]
• QSE docs cleanup (#2490) [@natestemen]
• Add tags to tutorials (#2467) [@purva-thakre]
• Correct CDR and VNCDR acronyms in example (#2479) [@bdg221]
• added roadmap link to readme (#2468) [@ecarlander]
• Update ibmq-backends.md (#2474) [@mbrotos]

🧑🏽‍💻 Developer Improvements

• Remove make requirements (#2481) [@purva-thakre]
• Fix flaky REM test / refactor (#2464) [@natestemen]

📦 Dependency Updates

• Bump pyscf from 2.6.2 to 2.7.0 (#2518) [@dependabot]
• Bump pyqrack from 1.30.24 to 1.30.30 (#2521) [@dependabot]
• Bump pyqrack from 1.30.22 to 1.30.24 (#2497) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit requirement from ~=1.2.1 to ~=1.2.2 (#2507) [@dependabot]
• Bump qibo from 0.2.10 to 0.2.12 (#2506) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit-aer requirement from ~=0.15.0 to ~=0.15.1 (#2504) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit requirement from ~=1.2.0 to ~=1.2.1 (#2503) [@dependabot]
• Bump pyqrack from 1.30.20 to 1.30.22 (#2489) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit-aer requirement from ~=0.14.2 to ~=0.15.0 (#2484) [@dependabot]
• Bump pyqrack from 1.30.8 to 1.30.20 (#2487) [@dependabot]
• Update cirq-core requirement from <1.4.0,>=1.0.0 to >=1.0.0,<1.5.0 (#2390) [@dependabot]
• Update qiskit requirement from ~=1.1.1 to ~=1.2.0 (#2482) [@dependabot]
• Update scipy requirement from <=1.14.0,>=1.10.1 to >=1.10.1,<=1.14.1 (#2477) [@dependabot]
• Bump pyqrack from 1.30.0 to 1.30.8 (#2476) [@dependabot]
• Bump sphinx from 7.2.6 to 8.0.2 (#2455) [@dependabot]
• Bump qibo from 0.2.9 to 0.2.10 (#2458) [@dependabot]