Release 0.9

Summary of changes from 0.8

New features

• Updated the Strawberry Fields gallery, featuring community-submitted content (tutorials, notebooks, repositories, blog posts, research papers, etc.) using Strawberry Fields

• Added the @operation decorator, which allows commonly-used algorithms and subroutines to be declared in blackbird code as one-liner operations

• Added a ThermalLossChannel to the Strawberry Fields API (currently supported by the Gaussian backend)

• Added a poly_quad_expectation method to the state objects for Gaussian and Fock backends

Improvements

• New and improved tests

• Fixed typos in code/documentation

Contributors

This release contains contributions from:

Juan Leni, Arthur Pesah, Brianna Gopaul, Nicolás Quesada, Josh Izaac, and Nathan Killoran.