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This is more of a proof-of-concept PR.
It tries to address #1474 by defining a set of core operations a backend should implement to be
qibo
compliant. Notably, the usualbackend.np
pattern is removed here. As a consequence, many of the methods from theNumpyBackend
are moved to theAbstractBackend
as they are completely general and backend agnostic once the core operations are defined.Actually, it might even be a good idea to move some of them from the backend to some more suitable place. For instance, several methods that implement operations on quantum states might be moved directly to the
qibo.result.QuantumState
object, similarly for Hamiltonians and others.Checklist: