Prepare 0.11.0 release (#1571)

Following the steps in `CONTRIBUTING.md`, this change moves the old
release notes into the main document and fixes up the remaining release
notes for the new release. The tense and voice of the different notes
were unified and some notes were moved to different categories. It is
hard to say whether updating something not to use an API that was just
deprecated should be a bug fix or an upgrade note. Here the notes lean
toward upgrade notes with only a change that affects existing behavior
(slow performance with old qiskit-ibm-runtime) counting as a bug fix.

Author: wshanks

docs/release_notes.rst

@@ -5,6 +5,64 @@ Release Notes
 .. release-notes::
    :earliest-version: 0.10.0
 
+.. _Release Notes_0.10.0:
+
+0.10.0
+======
+
+.. _Release Notes_0.10.0_Prelude:
+
+Prelude
+-------
+
+.. releasenotes/notes/prelude0.10-39fb8503056ee261.yaml @ b'c7d41beb5693db3b719fb00f7f9611433ac61c15'
+
+The Qiskit Experiments 0.10.0 release adds new features to :class:`.LayerFidelity` that allow it to be used as a parallel direct randomized benchmarking experiment as well. It also includes some small changes to address the way :func:`~qiskit.compiler.transpile` handles the ``basis_gates`` argument in Qiskit 2.0.
+
+
+.. _Release Notes_0.10.0_New Features:
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+.. releasenotes/notes/layerfid_opt_add-a42d6e727e5d44b9.yaml @ b'4c7f2b448d603c2d36e93dfa212d14f05dd8763f'
+
+- :class:`.LayerFidelity` has two new options, ``layer_barrier`` and ``min_delay``.
+  ``layer_barrier`` turns off the barrier between all qubits in the layer,
+  so that layer run becomes simultaneous direct RB. ``min_delay`` allows the
+  user to enforce a minimum delay during the two-qubit layer using a qubit
+  that is not part of the two-qubit gate list. Also added the EPL
+  (error per layer) calculation to the layer analysis output and to the figure.
+
+
+.. _Release Notes_0.10.0_Bug Fixes:
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+.. releasenotes/notes/fine-freq-basis-gates-0c8d6a6f895b0ed5.yaml @ b'a4001c2dd407c11ed648df529c8f99751b5966fb'
+
+- The :class:`.FineFrequency` experiment was modified so that it no longer sets
+  the ``basis_gates`` in its transpile options to default to the gates used
+  in its ``circuits()`` method. If these gates were already in the backend's
+  target, there should be no change in behavior. If the gates were not in the
+  backend's target, then the experiment would have been producing transpiled
+  circuits that did not match the backend's instruction set and so would not
+  run. The ``basis_gates`` setting was a remnant from the previous support
+  for pulse calibrations for which the calibration experient would use the
+  ``basis_gates`` option to know which pulse gate calibrations to attach to
+  the circuits.
+
+.. releasenotes/notes/lf-1q-gates-6402f24811d97d5e.yaml @ b'388dec711df9f3182e922199f9b2c4072aaa35f6'
+
+- :class:`.LayerFidelity` now filters out non-standard one qubit gates from
+  the target when choosing the set to use for transpiling the one qubit
+  Clifford gates. Previously, it would use all one qubit gates in the
+  backend's target. With Qiskit 2.0, transpiling with a non-standard gate in
+  the way that :class:`.LayerFidelity` does leads to an exception. A warning
+  is emitted if a non-standard one qubit gate is filtered out.
+
+
 .. _Release Notes_0.9.0:
 
 0.9.0
@@ -4071,4 +4129,4 @@ API Changes for Experiment Authors
 - A ``model_description`` fields has been added to the
   :class:`qiskit_experiments.curve_analysis.SeriesDef` dataclass. This field
   stores the string representation of the fit model of the curve and will be
-  stored in the experiments analysis result extra field.
+  stored in the experiments analysis result extra field.

releasenotes/notes/add_layer_fidelity_unitary-bad3cc81c0c5f959.yaml

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 ---
 features:
   - |
-    Added a class :class:`.LayerFidelityUnitary` which allows for layer style RB with arbitrary
-    two-qubit gates or circuits in the 2Q layer. A list of qiskit :class:`qiskit.circuit.Gate` 
-    or :class:`qiskit.circuit.CircuitInstruction` objects can be passed into class and then each layer is 
+    A new class :class:`.LayerFidelityUnitary` which allows for layer style RB with arbitrary
+    two-qubit gates or circuits in the 2Q layer was added. A list of qiskit :class:`qiskit.circuit.Gate` 
+    or :class:`qiskit.circuit.CircuitInstruction` objects can be passed into the class and then each layer is 
     randomly sampled from that list. A final SU(2) inversion gate is appended so that the full 
-    circuit is the identity and this is analyzed using the same analysis class 
-    :class:`.LayerFidelityAnalysis`.
+    circuit is the identity and this is analyzed using the same
+    :class:`.LayerFidelityAnalysis` analysis class as :class:`.LayerFidelity`.
 
 fixes:
   - |
-    Updated the validation function for both :class:`.LayerFidelityUnitary` and
-    :class:`.LayerFidelity` that to fix a slowdown for ibm-qiskit-runtime versions
+    The validation function for both :class:`.LayerFidelityUnitary` and
+    :class:`.LayerFidelity` was updated to fix a slowdown for :external+qiskit_ibm_runtime:doc:`qiskit-ibm-runtime <index>` versions
     less than 0.40.0

releasenotes/notes/fine-freq-basis-gates-0c8d6a6f895b0ed5.yaml

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 ---
 features:
   - |
-    For classes (such as :class:`.LayerFidelity`) that use the ``clifford_utils``
-    file, this adds a synthesis option to decompose the 1Q cliffords into
+    For benchmarking classes (such as :class:`.LayerFidelity`) that use the
+    helper methods of :class:`.CliffordUtils`,
+    a synthesis option was added to decompose the 1Q cliffords into
     a fixed gate structure using the syntax
     ``rb_obj.experiment_options.clifford_synthesis_method = '1Q_fixed'``
     using :class:`qiskit.synthesis.OneQubitEulerDecomposer`

releasenotes/notes/fixed_1q_decomp-9a295d248c04b862.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+prelude: >
+    Qiskit Experiments 0.11.0 introduces new device benchmarking features,
+    namely a new layer fidelity variant (:class:`.LayerFidelityUnitary`) and a
+    new Clifford synthesis option for the various benchmarking experiments. It
+    also removes several previously deprecated functions and classes and
+    provides some minor fixes and changes in behavior.

releasenotes/notes/layerfid_opt_add-a42d6e727e5d44b9.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 upgrade:
   - |
     The minimum version of Qiskit was raised from 0.45 to 1.3.
-fixes:
   - |
     :class:`~.QuantumVolume` was updated to avoid using the deprecated
     :class:`qiskit.circuit.library.QuantumVolume` class. The experiment should

releasenotes/notes/lf-1q-gates-6402f24811d97d5e.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
-fixes:
+upgrade:
   - |
-    Adds an extra transpilation step to the 2Q Clifford generation
-    code which reduces the number of single qubit gates per 
-    Clifford. 
+    An extra transpilation step was added to the 2Q Clifford generation
+    code which reduces the number of single qubit gates per two qubit
+    Clifford in the :class:`.StandardRB` and :class:`.InterleavedRB` experiments.