Improve reproducibility and consistency of benchmarking workflow #253
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These changes will
Reduce the parallelism in the benchmarking runs to minimize contention that might otherwise impact the results. This includes restricting Qiskit-AER simulations to a maximum of 1 parallel thread and run expected value benchmarks separate in parallel separate from timing benchmarks in parallel.
and forcing just 1 parallel job in the benchmark script itself.Use the locked version of dependencies in the benchmarking runs to avoid an uncontrolled change in a dependent library or transitive dependency.
Ensure only one instance of the benchmark github workflow runs at a time by specifying a concurrency group.
This partially addresses #251