Source code for qiskit.circuit.library.standard_gates.dcx

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"""Double-CNOT gate."""

import numpy as np
from qiskit.circuit.gate import Gate
from qiskit.circuit.quantumregister import QuantumRegister


[docs]class DCXGate(Gate): r"""Double-CNOT gate. A 2-qubit Clifford gate consisting of two back-to-back CNOTs with alternate controls. .. parsed-literal:: ┌───┐ q_0: ──■──┤ X ├ ┌─┴─┐└─┬─┘ q_1: ┤ X ├──■── └───┘ This is a classical logic gate, equivalent to a CNOT-SWAP (CNS) sequence, and locally equivalent to an iSWAP. .. math:: DCX\ q_0, q_1 = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix} """ def __init__(self): """Create new DCX gate.""" super().__init__('dcx', 2, []) def _define(self): """ gate dcx a, b { cx a, b; cx a, b; } """ from .x import CXGate q = QuantumRegister(2, 'q') self.definition = [ (CXGate(), [q[0], q[1]], []), (CXGate(), [q[1], q[0]], []) ]
[docs] def to_matrix(self): """Return a numpy.array for the DCX gate.""" return np.array([[1, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1], [0, 1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1, 0]], dtype=complex)