qiskit/circuit/quantumregister.py

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# pylint: disable=bad-docstring-quotes

"""
Quantum register reference object.
"""
import itertools

from qiskit.circuit.exceptions import CircuitError

from .register import Register
from .bit import Bit


class Qubit(Bit):
    """Implement a quantum bit."""

    __slots__ = ()

    def __init__(self, register=None, index=None):
        """Creates a qubit.

        Args:
            register (QuantumRegister): Optional. A quantum register containing the bit.
            index (int): Optional. The index of the bit in its containing register.

        Raises:
            CircuitError: if the provided register is not a valid :class:`QuantumRegister`
        """

        if register is None or isinstance(register, QuantumRegister):
            super().__init__(register, index)
        else:
            raise CircuitError(
                "Qubit needs a QuantumRegister and %s was provided" % type(register).__name__
            )


class QuantumRegister(Register):
    """Implement a quantum register."""

    # Counter for the number of instances in this class.
    instances_counter = itertools.count()
    # Prefix to use for auto naming.
    prefix = "q"
    bit_type = Qubit


class AncillaQubit(Qubit):
    """A qubit used as ancillary qubit."""

    __slots__ = ()

    pass


class AncillaRegister(QuantumRegister):
    """Implement an ancilla register."""

    # Counter for the number of instances in this class.
    instances_counter = itertools.count()
    # Prefix to use for auto naming.
    prefix = "a"
    bit_type = AncillaQubit