🔥 drop Python 3.8 support

[burgholzer]

Description

Python 3.8 will reach end of live in October 2024. Qiskit is already issuing deprecation warnings since a couple of releases when using it on Python 3.8. This PR officially drops support for Python 3.8 in mqt-ddsim.

Checklist:

• [x] The pull request only contains commits that are related to it.
• [x] I have added appropriate tests and documentation.
• [x] I have made sure that all CI jobs on GitHub pass.
• [x] The pull request introduces no new warnings and follows the project's style guidelines.

[codecov[bot]]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests :white_check_mark:

Project coverage is 92.3%. Comparing base (4409d5d) to head (4c2166a). Report is 1 commits behind head on main.

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