Michael Hucka

Link to RFC: https://tinyurl.com/rfc-cirq-barrier-operation

Status update: 1. Some questions have been posed on the [RFC document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZHdtYegYgm1WtutT97bTuRCgQSsEY7_K_DM0lGf68V0/preview). The author has replied to some, and that is great to see. There are still a couple not...

Apologies for my tardiness on this; I've been in emergency mode on a project since last month. I expect that to end in the middle of next week and I...

## Review checklist for @mhucka ### Conflict of interest - [x] I confirm that I have read the [JOSS conflict of interest (COI) policy](https://github.com/openjournals/joss/blob/master/COI.md) and that: I have no COIs...

I have some comments for the authors, but I'm not sure what the protocol is for doing that. (I did read https://joss.readthedocs.io/ but didn't find instructions regarding this – perhaps...

> @mhucka we went back to the source and have replaced Figs 1 & 2 with versions with larger font size that should be clearer now. I'll use editorialbot to...

> Thanks both @mhucka & @benlansdell ! it looks like both of your review checklists are now complete. Are there any other outstanding issues to fix? Nothing from me.

> I see that we need to change to number.Real for np.float32 values based on comment i PR [#430](https://github.com/quantumlib/ReCirq/pull/430) by Pavol. Should it be changed only for recirq/fermi_hubbard/parameters.py? We haven't...

@dstrain115 This has not had activity for quite some time. For planning purposes, could you say whether you are planning to pursue this further? If so, could you update the...

References used while investigating this: * https://github.com/pyscf/pyscf/blob/265bb15f7f507335397b43ac92bbc95c3bc9524b/pyscf/soscf/newton_ah.py * https://pyscf.org/pyscf_api_docs/pyscf.scf.html#pyscf.scf.RHF * https://github.com/pyscf/pyscf/blob/265bb15f7f507335397b43ac92bbc95c3bc9524b/doc_legacy/source/overview.rst#L81