merge dev into master part 2 (#1575)

This [PR](#1574) was stale since
March 2025. We dusted it off and merged it into `dev`.

Core wants to get it in for the v0.43 release to get it out of the way.

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Co-authored-by: Christina Lee <chrissie.c.l@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Yushao Chen (Jerry) <chenys13@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: GitHub Nightly Merge Action <actions@github.com>
Co-authored-by: Simone Gasperini <simone.gasperini4@unibo.it>
Co-authored-by: Alex Preciado <alex.preciado@xanadu.ai>
Co-authored-by: Alan Martin <alan.martin@xanadu.ai>
Co-authored-by: Alan Martin <53958929+Alan-eMartin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Isaac De Vlugt <isaacdevlugt@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Isaac De Vlugt <34751083+isaacdevlugt@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Finlay <50180049+doctorperceptron@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mehrdad Malek <39844030+mehrdad2m@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: 11 people

demonstrations_v2/tutorial_how_to_quantum_just_in_time_compile_vqe_catalyst/demo.py

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def cost(params):
 @qml.qjit
 @qml.qnode(dev)
 def cost(params):
-    qml.BasisState.compute_decomposition(hf, wires=range(qubits))
+    qml.BasisState(hf, wires=range(qubits))
     qml.DoubleExcitation(params[0], wires=[0, 1, 2, 3])
     qml.DoubleExcitation(params[1], wires=[0, 1, 4, 5])
     return qml.expval(H)

demonstrations_v2/tutorial_how_to_quantum_just_in_time_compile_vqe_catalyst/metadata.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     "executable_stable": true,
     "executable_latest": true,
     "dateOfPublication": "2024-04-26T00:00:00+00:00",
-    "dateOfLastModification": "2025-09-22T15:48:14+00:00",
+    "dateOfLastModification": "2025-10-16T04:00:00+00:00",
     "categories": [
         "Quantum Machine Learning",
         "Optimization",