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"""Identity gate."""

import numpy
from qiskit.circuit.gate import Gate


[docs]class IGate(Gate):
    r"""Identity gate.

    Identity gate corresponds to a single-qubit gate wait cycle,
    and should not be optimized or unrolled (it is an opaque gate).

    **Matrix Representation:**

    .. math::

        I = \begin{pmatrix}
                1 & 0 \\
                0 & 1
            \end{pmatrix}

    **Circuit symbol:**

    .. parsed-literal::
             ┌───┐
        q_0: ┤ I ├
             └───┘
    """

[docs]    def __init__(self, label=None):
        """Create new Identity gate."""
        super().__init__('id', 1, [], label=label)

[docs]    def inverse(self):
        """Invert this gate."""
        return IGate()  # self-inverse

[docs]    def to_matrix(self):
        """Return a numpy.array for the identity gate."""
        return numpy.array([[1, 0],
                            [0, 1]], dtype=complex)