Add Sparse Simulator Samples

[kuzminrobin]

Add Sparse Simulator Samples

[tcNickolas]

The first bullet on the list is complete, 7aa6881 updated Sudoku solver sample to use sparse simulator instead of the full state simulator.

[cgranade]

@kuzminrobin: Was there any other work that you were suggesting as part of this feature request, or can this be closed? Thank you!

[tcNickolas]

I imagine #713 and its counterpart for IonQ will contribute to this as well, since they'll show up in the gallery.

[kuzminrobin]

@cgranade,
I believe the last bullet item (with 2 sub-bullets) is still TODO (something that can be done).
However the LT is considering making the sparse simulator a default simulator (and fully dropping the full-state simulator). After which the last bullet item will stop being applicable.

[tcNickolas]

Oddly enough, I've found one case on which the sparse simulator was significantly slower than the full state one. If that's of interest, I try to dig up the example at the end of this week. So maybe dropping the full state sim completely is excessive?

[kuzminrobin]

Would be nice to get more details about "significantly slower". We know that one of the perf tests shows that the SS is about 6 times slower than FSS for the case of dense state. Management's opinion is close to "we can live with that".
The deprecation of FSS is caused by the fact that the support burden is high for FSS (from the recent discussion with @bettinaheim).