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 - 🏆  [whitepaper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47174-9) which featured in Scientific Report's [Top 100 in Physics](https://www.nature.com/collections/ecehgdfcba/)
 - 📝  [preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01512) which derives `v4`'s optimised algorithms.
 - 🧪  [tests](/tests) which compare QuEST's outputs to non-optimised calculations.
+- 📰  [news](news.md) which summarises QuEST's history and accolades.
 - 📈  [benchmarks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) which are coming soon!
 
 

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+# 📰  News
+
+<!--
+  Random assortment of QuEST-related news, in reverse chronology
+  (this comment must be under the title for valid doxygen rendering)
+
+  @author Tyson Jones
+-->
+
+
+
+## 🏆  Recognitions
+
+
+### 2025
+
+  - QuEST is an invited project to [unitaryHACK 2025](https://unitaryhack.dev/) with challenges [#600](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/issues/600), [#594](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/issues/594), [#599](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/issues/599), [#598](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/issues/598), [#596](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/issues/596) and [#595](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/issues/595)
+  - QuEST is a highlighted integration on the NVIDIA [cuQuantum site](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuquantum-sdk)
+
+
+### 2024
+
+  - QuEST ranks 3rd in Quantum Insider's [Top 63 Quantum Computer Simulators for 2024](https://thequantuminsider.com/2022/06/14/top-63-quantum-computer-simulators-for-2022/)
+
+
+### 2023
+
+  - QuESTlink wins a [Wolfram Innovator Award](https://blog.wolfram.com/2023/11/02/announcing-the-2023-wolfram-innovator-award-winners/)
+
+
+### 2021
+
+  - QuEST features in the final challenge of the [ASC20-21 Student Supercomputer Challenge](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210127005355/en/28-University-Teams-from-Around-the-World-Advance-to-the-Finals-of-the-ASC20-21-Student-Supercomputer-Challenge)
+
+
+### 2020
+
+  - QuEST's [whitepaper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47174-9) ranks 11th in Scientific Reports' [Top 100 in Physics](https://www.nature.com/collections/ecehgdfcba)
+
+
+
+
+## 💪  Major features
+
+
+### 2025
+
+#### v4.2
+
+  - multi-controlled Trotter circuits
+  - non-unitary Trotter circuits (permitting e.g. imaginary-time evolution)
+
+#### [v4.0](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v4.0.0)
+
+  - multi-GPU deployment
+  - automatic deployment
+  - partial tracing
+  - multi-qubit projectors
+  - distance measures
+  - numerical tolerance control
+
+
+### 2023
+
+#### [v3.7](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v3.7.0)
+
+  - cuQuantum integration
+
+#### [v3.6](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v3.6.0)
+
+  - AMD GPU support
+  - diagonal matrices
+
+
+### 2021
+
+#### [v3.4](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v3.4.0)
+
+  - MSVC (Windows) support
+
+#### [v3.3](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v3.3.0)
+
+  - all-outcome probabilities
+  - multi-controlled Pauli rotations
+  - custom phase functions
+  - QFT
+
+
+### 2020
+
+#### [v3.2](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v3.2.0)
+
+  - Trotter-Suzuki circuits
+  - full-state diagonal operators
+
+#### [v3.1](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v3.1.0)
+
+  - unit tests
+  - continuous integration
+
+#### [v3.0](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/3.0.0)
+
+  - general any-sized matrices
+  - general any-sized Kraus maps
+  - inhomogeneous Pauli channels
+  - multi-Pauli expectation values
+  - multi-target Pauli rotations
+  - any-controlled operations
+  - density-matrix inner products
+  - custom error handling
+
+
+### 2019
+
+#### [v2.1](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/2.1.0)
+
+  - CMake build
+  - amplitude damping channel
+
+
+### 2018
+
+#### [v2.0](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v2.0.0)
+
+  - density matrices
+  - dephasing channels
+  - depolarising channels
+  - purity calculation
+  - fidelity calculation
+  - QASM generation
+  - input validation
+
+#### [v1.1](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v1.1.0)
+
+  - `C` and `C++` agnosticism
+  - unification of CPU and GPU backends
+
+#### [v1.0](https://github.com/QuEST-Kit/QuEST/releases/tag/v1.0.0)
+
+  - controlled axis rotations