Add support for StatePrep (#77)

* adde support StatePrep * Update requirements-ci.txt * changelog * emojis --------- Co-authored-by: Matthew Silverman <[email protected]>
PennyLaneAI · Aug 22, 2023 · e76df60 · e76df60
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,19 +1,24 @@
-# Release 0.29.0-dev
+# Release 0.32.0-dev
 
 ### New features since last release
 
-### Breaking changes
+### Breaking changes 💔
 
-### Improvements
+### Improvements 🛠
 
-### Documentation
+* Added support for `qml.StatePrep` as a state preparation operation.
+  [(#77)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/PennyLane-IonQ/pull/77)
 
-### Bug fixes
+### Documentation 📝
 
-### Contributors
+### Bug fixes 🐛
+
+### Contributors ✍️
 
 This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
 
+ Jay Soni
+
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 # Release 0.28.0
 

diff --git a/pennylane_ionq/device.py b/pennylane_ionq/device.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def apply(self, operations, **kwargs):
             warnings.warn("Circuit is empty. Empty circuits return failures. Submitting anyway.")
 
         for i, operation in enumerate(operations):
-            if i > 0 and operation.name in {"BasisState", "QubitStateVector"}:
+            if i > 0 and operation.name in {"BasisState", "QubitStateVector", "StatePrep"}:
                 raise DeviceError(
                     f"The operation {operation.name} is only supported at the beginning of a circuit."
                 )