Add new layout methods

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, rust
Domain
data-visualization

Research direction

Start with the retworkx layout-functions API documentation and compare the available methods with NetworkX's drawing layout reference, especially planar and Kamada-Kawai layouts. Determine how the new functions should be exposed for use by the drawers; done means the selected additional layout methods are available through the retworkx API and can be leveraged by the drawers.

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Description

enhancement good first issue
What is the expected enhancement?

Right now retworkx has several layout methods available: https://qiskit.org/documentation/retworkx/api.html#layout-functions
but there are some other common examples (like a planar layout and kamada kawai) missing. We should expand the available layout functions so that they can be leveraged with the drawers. We can look at what networkx offers for this functionality to get some good examples: https://networkx.org/documentation/stable/reference/drawing.html#module-networkx.drawing.layout

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