Updates to two tutorials: QAOA, and Advanced techniques for QAOA

[abbycross]

Continuation of #4805 by @ibrahim-shehzad : Making updates to match the updated tutorial template

Moving to a write-access branch to run the notebook tester

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Also adding in updates from @mrvee-qC-bee to QAOA tutorial (finishing up work started in #5029)

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[nathanearnestnoble]

Thanks for this @ibrahim-shehzad and @abbycross! Ibrahim, some small requests:

• Can we instead break 'learning outcomes' and 'Prerequisites' into two different bolded sections (see updated template for reference)
• Can you make a unique bullet for each prereq, rather than having them in one bullet
• Can we make the learning outcome a bit more specific. Draft example: Utilize advanced techniques which help improve QAOA transpilation and means of improving QAOA optimization performance
• In the small-scale simulator example section, can you reference the initial QAOA tutorial. ~"If you would like to get a simulator based QAOA workflow, please reference ______"

[abbycross]

• Utilize advanced techniques which help improve QAOA transpilation and means of improving QAOA optimization performance
  @ibrahim-shehzad are you good with this suggestion Nate drafted? If so, I can add it - or let me know some new wording. Thanks!

[ibrahim-shehzad]

@abbycross , I would perhaps change this this to

Utilize advanced techniques which help improve QAOA transpilation and provide a means for improving QAOA performance.

What do you think?

[abbycross]

Thanks, looks good to me! And for the suggestion to point to the other QAOA tutorial, is it this one?: (https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/tutorials/quantum-approximate-optimization-algorithm) I don't see that it's specifically using a simulator but it does seem suited for smaller-scale runs...

In the small-scale simulator example section, can you reference the initial QAOA tutorial. ~"If you would like to get a simulator based QAOA workflow, please reference ______"

[nathanearnestnoble]

Yes, that is the correct tutorial @abbycross . That tutorial should be updated by @mrvee-qC-bee (which I believe will be ready soon)

[abbycross]

@mrvee-qC-bee is going to adjust the text to make sure it doesn't suggest you can use sessions with Open Plan, and then this is ready to go from my end!

[abbycross]

@henryzou50 @nathanearnestnoble I think this is ready from my end - any final reviews?

[henryzou50]

@abbycross @mrvee-qC-bee LGTM! Thanks for updates! This is currently failing a CI check which shouldn't be due to this PR, but since it alters the script, it caused the failure. I also noticed this issue in the PR #5064 , but I am not sure on the best way to resolve this. Do you have any idea @abbycross?

[abbycross]

@henryzou50 the API token for checking notebooks expired yesterday and has since been refreshed. I'll rerun the check and it should go green now 🤞

[abbycross]

Since I opened this branch, I'll need @nathanearnestnoble to click approve :)