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Draft: Make Gate submodules responsible for circuit-to-device compilation

Daniel J. Weigand requested to merge prototype_compile_in_gate into main

Explanation of changes

factory func and kwargs are properties of the submodule, instead of the QuantumDevice itself

Motivation of changes

  • better separation of concerns
  • facilitates small changes (swap a gate implementation for another, without writing a whole new QuantumDevice)

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