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Fix Qblox Backend: Acquisition memory on the device is not cleared if running the same experiment twice (#349, follow-up to !438, #108, QAE-224)

Daniel J. Weigandrequested to merge
hotfix_qblox_acquisition into main

Explanation of changes

This is a small fix for unintended behavior with qblox hardware.

Because we no longer use json files with random names in the qblox backend, the sequence is not reuploaded if the program did not change between experiments. This can have the unexpected behavior that the data from separate runs is averaged.

Motivation of changes

Due to #349 (closed), qblox hardware cannot be used with cb7fbdae or later. This restores the old behavior. In the future, we can expand the capabilities by allowing to keep acquisition data with a flag. But that would be a separate MR

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Edited by Kelvin Loh

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