Resurrect Lindblad Evolution and Add Sequential Propagation

[SRaent]

What

Ideally reinserts lindbladian evolution Added sequential propagators that use less ram

Why

Linbladian evolution was in the code but not accessible. Reduces code complexity and nested ifs. Closes Issue #215

How

A new function in the Model takes care of returning Hamiltonians or Liouvillian superoperators according to model.lindbladian. In this way propagation.pwc() basically just needs to do the exponentiation.

Remarks

Checks on signals (e. g. passing times) are supposed to be moved to the Generator and might be faulty now.

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This pull request introduces 1 alert when merging 4f50fef27e24fec357f59454677a8ddaa351c324 into 003824cad98b98acfaaa94c7f585828023341031 - view on LGTM.com

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This pull request introduces 2 alerts when merging c6e109eb807b5690691064a1333299ccc6405318 into 003824cad98b98acfaaa94c7f585828023341031 - view on LGTM.com

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• 2 for Unused local variable

[lazyoracle]

@SRaent Can you add tests for the lindbladian evolution? In the future we would want to know if some work done elsewhere breaks this important functionality.