v0.45.0

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(Full Changelog)

Highlights

• Many tutorials are now updated with modern Qiskit code, ready to run on the latest IBM devices thanks to @bdg221!
• A new tutorial demonstrating how to use UCC in conjunction with Mitiq that shows how compilation and mitigation work well together.
• The Virtual Distillation technique now has a complete user guide along with API-docs.

✨ Enhancements

• Update get_scale_factors for static scale factors (Update get_scale_factors for static scale factors #2727) [@bdg221]
• Use uv and pyproject.toml for dependencies and configs (Use uv and pyproject.toml for dependencies and configs #2724) [@bdg221] (this will not impact users of mitiq, but it makes development much easier! Come try it out :))

📓 Documentation

• add Virtual Distillation documentation (add Virtual Distillation documentation #2760) [@FarLab]
• add VD to api-doc (add VD to api-doc #2761) [@natestemen]
• Update tutorials for IBM hardware (Update tutorials for IBM hardware #2759) [@bdg221]
• Add tutorial demonstrating basic usage of mitiq & ucc (Add tutorial demonstrating basic usage of mitiq & ucc #2728) [@natestemen]
• Update README.md (chore: added a license badge #2718) [@lifechange777]
• fix shadows path (Fix shadows module path in readme #2717) [@natestemen]

📦 Dependency Updates

• Bump pyscf from 2.8.0 to 2.9.0 (Bump pyscf from 2.8.0 to 2.9.0 #2725) [@dependabot[bot]]

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