Update qiskit packages

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
qiskit (source)	>=0.44.0 -> >=0.44.1
qiskit-ibm-runtime	>=0.11.3 -> >=0.12.0
qiskit-sphinx-theme	~=1.15.0 -> ~=1.15.2

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Release Notes

Qiskit/qiskit-ibm-runtime (qiskit-ibm-runtime)

v0.12.0: Qiskit IBM Runtime 0.12.0

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Changelog

Deprecated

• Deprecate noise amplification option (#​1035)
• "bss.seconds" deprecation in job.metrics() (#​913)

Added

• Q-CTRL support (#​1017)
• Don't store circuit params automatically (#​1010)
• Remove deprecation warning for unsupported parameters of transpilation settings (#​866)
• Expose job cost estimation values (#​976)
• Raise exception when number of circuits exceeds maximum circuits allowed on backendkend max_circuits (#​939)
• Support updating job tags (#​950)
• Add SimulatorOptions.set_backend method (#​876)

Changed

• Use qiskit-ibm-provider api code (#​871)

Removed

• Remove max circuits validation (#​1031)
• Remove circuit & observable indicies (#​971)
• Use qiskit-ibm-provider api code (#​871)

Fixed

• Correct backend given by RuntimeJob.backend() (#​997)
• Fix bug with custom header in request (#​1000)
• Deserialize circuit metadata (#​993)
• Filter backends by instance when given in QiskitRuntimeService constructor (#​979)
• serialize circuit metadata correctly (#​946)
• Cancelled job should throw exception when trying to get result() (#​930)

Qiskit/qiskit_sphinx_theme (qiskit-sphinx-theme)

v1.15.2: Qiskit Sphinx Theme 1.15.2

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Updates the top header for the qiskit theme to fix the URL for API references.

v1.15.1: Qiskit Sphinx Theme 1.15.1

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A hotfix release to workaround Sphinx 7.2.0 breaking docs builds.

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[psschwei]

closing in favor of #1000