docs: clarify method purpose (backport #13312) #13321
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Summary
Fixes #13051.
Details and comments
Update the doc string for the Pauli operator method
conjugate
to clarify that it returns the complex conjugate and not the conjugate transpose.This is an automatic backport of pull request #13312 done by [Mergify](https://mergify.com).