chore: update is_hermitian to is_verified_hermitian after PL deprecation (#2157)

PL deprecated this here:
[github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane/pull/8494](PennyLaneAI/pennylane#8494)

[sc-96463]

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Co-authored-by: Yushao Chen (Jerry) <[email protected]>

Author: andrijapau

.dep-versions

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ enzyme=v0.0.186
 
 # For a custom PL version, update the package version here and at
 # 'doc/requirements.txt'
-pennylane=0.43.0
+pennylane=0.44.0.dev17
 
 # For a custom LQ/LK version, update the package version here and at
 # 'doc/requirements.txt'

doc/releases/changelog-dev.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   [(#2128)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/catalyst/pull/2128)
   [(#2133)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/catalyst/pull/2133)
 
-* <h3>Internal changes ⚙️</h3>
+<h3>Internal changes ⚙️</h3>
 
 * Refactor Catalyst pass registering so that it's no longer necessary to manually add new
   passes at `registerAllCatalystPasses`.

doc/requirements.txt

@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ lxml_html_clean
 --extra-index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/
 pennylane-lightning-kokkos==0.43.0
 pennylane-lightning==0.43.0
-pennylane==0.43.0
+pennylane==0.44.0.dev17

frontend/test/pytest/test_adjoint.py

@@ -865,16 +865,16 @@ def test_queue_category_None(self):
         assert op._queue_category is None  # pylint: disable=protected-access
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("value", (True, False))
-    def test_is_hermitian(self, value):
-        """Test `is_hermitian` property mirrors that of the base."""
+    def test_is_verified_hermitian(self, value):
+        """Test `is_verified_hermitian` property mirrors that of the base."""
 
         # pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
         class DummyOp(qml.operation.Operator):
             num_wires = 1
-            is_hermitian = value
+            is_verified_hermitian = value
 
         op = adjoint(DummyOp(0))
-        assert op.is_hermitian == value
+        assert op.is_verified_hermitian == value
 
     def test_batching_properties(self):
         """Test the batching properties and methods."""

frontend/test/pytest/test_quantum_control.py

@@ -800,17 +800,17 @@ class DummyOp(Operator):
         assert op._queue_category == value
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("value", (True, False))
-    def test_is_hermitian(self, value):
-        """Test that `catalyst.ctrl` defers `is_hermitian` to base operator."""
+    def test_is_verified_hermitian(self, value):
+        """Test that `catalyst.ctrl` defers `is_verified_hermitian` to base operator."""
 
         class DummyOp(Operator):
             """DummyOp"""
 
             num_wires = 1
-            is_hermitian = value
+            is_verified_hermitian = value
 
         op = C_ctrl(DummyOp(1), 0)
-        assert op.is_hermitian is value
+        assert op.is_verified_hermitian is value
 
     def test_map_wires(self):
         """Test that we can get and set private wires."""