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Operation

class qiskit.circuit.Operation

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Bases: ABC

Quantum operation interface.

The minimal interface that any object must fulfil in order to be added to a QuantumCircuit.

Concrete instances of this interface include Gate, Reset, Barrier, Measure, and operators such as Clifford.

The main purpose is to allow abstract mathematical objects to be added directly onto abstract circuits, and for the exact syntheses of these to be determined later, during compilation.

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')
../_images/qiskit-circuit-Operation-1.png

Attributes

name

Unique string identifier for operation type.

num_clbits

Number of classical bits.

num_qubits

Number of qubits.

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