Operation
class qiskit.circuit.Operation
Bases: ABC
Quantum Operation Interface Class. For objects that can be added to a QuantumCircuit
. These objects include Gate
, Reset
, Barrier
, Measure
, and operators such as Clifford
. The main purpose is to add an Operation
to a QuantumCircuit
without synthesizing it before the transpilation.
Example
Add a Clifford and a Toffoli gate to a QuantumCircuit.
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit
from qiskit.quantum_info import Clifford, random_clifford
qc = QuantumCircuit(3)
cliff = random_clifford(2)
qc.append(cliff, [0, 1])
qc.ccx(0, 1, 2)
qc.draw('mpl')

Attributes
name
Unique string identifier for operation type.
num_clbits
Number of classical bits.
num_qubits
Number of qubits.
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