Added Support for Windows

• New Bloch3d class for plotting 3D Bloch spheres using Mayavi.
• Added partial transpose function.
• Added continous variable functions for calculating correlation and covariance matrices, the Wigner covariance matrix and the logarithmic negativity for for multimode fields in Fock basis.

• Function based time-dependent Hamiltonians now keep the correct phase.
• mcsolve no longer prints to the command line if ntraj=1.

• New method for generating Wigner functions based on Laguerre polynomials.
• coherent(), coherent_dm(), and thermal_dm() can now be expressed using analytic values.
• Unittests now use nose and can be run after installation.
• Added iswap and sqrt-iswap gates.
• Functions for quantum process tomography.
• Window icons are now set for Ubuntu application launcher.
• The propagator function can now take a list of times as argument, and returns a list of corresponding propagators.

SVN-2571: mesolver now correctly uses the user defined rhs_filename in Odeoptions().

SVN-2566: rhs_generate() now handles user defined filenames properly.

SVN-2565: Density matrix returned by propagator_steadystate is now Hermitian.

SVN-2548: eseries_value returns real list if all imag parts are zero.

SVN-2518: mcsolver now gives correct results for strong damping rates.

SVN-2513: Odeoptions now prints mc_avg correctly.

SVN-2516: Do not check for PyObj in mcsolve when gui=False.

SVN-2514: Eseries now correctly handles purely complex rates.

SVN-2485: thermal_dm() function now uses truncated operator method.

SVN-2428: Cython based time-dependence now Python 3 compatible.

SVN-2391: Removed call to NSAutoPool on mac systems.

SVN-2389: Progress bar now displays the correct number of CPU's used.

SVN-2385: Qobj.diag() returns reals if operator is Hermitian.

SVN-2376: Text for progress bar on Linux systems is no longer cutoff.

• QuTiP now includes solvers for both Floquet and Bloch-Redfield master equations.
• The Lindblad master equation and monte-carlo solvers allow for time-dependent collapse operators.
• It is possible to automatically compile time-dependent problems into c-code using Cython (if installed).
• Python functions can be used to create arbitrary time-dependent Hamiltonians and collapse operators.
• Solvers now return Odedata objects containing all simulation results and parameters, simplifying the saving of simulation results.
• mesolve and mcsolve can reuse Hamiltonian data when only the initial state, or time-dependent arguments, need to be changed.
• QuTiP includes functions for creating random quantum states and operators.
• The generation and manipulation of quantum objects is now more efficient.
• Quantum objects have basis transformation and matrix element calculations as built-in methods.
• The quantum object eigensolver can use sparse solvers.
• The partial-trace (ptrace) function is up to 20x faster.
• The Bloch sphere can now be used with the Matplotlib animation function, and embedded as a subplot in a figure.
• QuTiP has built-in functions for saving quantum objects and data arrays.
• The steady-state solver has been further optimized for sparse matrices, and can handle much larger system Hamiltonians.
• The steady-state solver can use the iterative bi-conjugate gradient method instead of a direct solver.
• There are three new entropy functions for concurrence, mutual information, and conditional entropy.
• Correlation functions have been combined under a single function.
• The operator norm can now be set to trace, Frobius, one, or max norm.
• Global QuTiP settings can now be modified.
• QuTiP includes a collection of unit tests for verifying the installation.
• Demos window now lets you copy and paste code from each example.

SVN-2101: Fixed bug pointed out by Brendan Abolins.

SVN-1796: Qobj.tr() returns zero-dim ndarray instead of float or complex.

SVN-1463: Updated factorial import for scipy version 0.10+

SVN-1347: Allow custom naming of Bloch sphere.

SVN-1450: Fixed text alignment issues in AboutBox.

SVN-1448: Added fix for SciPy V>0.10 where factorial was moved to scipy.misc module.

SVN-1447: Added tidyup function to tensor function output.

SVN-1442: Removed openmp flags from setup.py as new Mac Xcode compiler does not recognize them.

SVN-1435: Qobj diag method now returns real array if all imaginary parts are zero.

SVN-1434: Examples GUI now links to new documentation.

SVN-1415: Fixed zero-dimensional array output from metrics module.

SVN-1218: Fixed issue where Monte-Carlo states were not output properly.

THIS POINT-RELEASE INCLUDES VASTLY IMPROVED TIME-INDEPENDENT MCSOLVE AND ODESOLVE PERFORMANCE

SVN-1183: Added linear entropy function.

SVN-1179: Number of CPU's can now be changed.

SVN-1184: Metrics no longer use dense matrices.

SVN-1184: Fixed Bloch sphere grid issue with matplotlib 1.1.

SVN-1183: Qobj trace operation uses only sparse matrices.

SVN-1168: Fixed issue where GUI windows do not raise to front.

THIS RELEASE NOW REQUIRES THE GCC COMPILER TO BE INSTALLED

SVN-1054: tidyup function to remove small elements from a Qobj.

SVN-1051: Added concurrence function.

SVN-1036: Added simdiag for simultaneous diagonalization of operators.

SVN-1032: Added eigenstates method returning eigenstates and eigenvalues to Qobj class.

SVN-1030: Added fileio for saving and loading data sets and/or Qobj's.

SVN-1029: Added hinton function for visualizing density matrices.

SVN-1091: Switched Examples to new Signals method used in PySide 1.0.6+.

SVN-1090: Switched ProgressBar to new Signals method.

SVN-1075: Fixed memory issue in expm functions.

SVN-1069: Fixed memory bug in isherm.

SVN-1059: Made all Qobj data complex by default.

SVN-1053: Reduced ODE tolerance levels in Odeoptions.

SVN-1050: Fixed bug in ptrace where dense matrix was used instead of sparse.

SVN-1047: Fixed issue where PyQt4 version would not be displayed in about box.

SVN-1041: Fixed issue in Wigner where xvec was used twice (in place of yvec).

Initial release.