CUGate¶

class CUGate(theta, phi, lam, gamma, label=None, ctrl_state=None)[source]

Controlled-U gate (4-parameter two-qubit gate).

This is a controlled version of the U gate (generic single qubit rotation), including a possible global phase $$e^{i\gamma}$$ of the U gate.

Circuit symbol:

q_0: ──────■──────
┌─────┴──────┐
q_1: ┤ U(ϴ,φ,λ,γ) ├
└────────────┘


Matrix representation:

\begin{align}\begin{aligned}\newcommand{\th}{\frac{\theta}{2}}\\\begin{split}CU(\theta, \phi, \lambda)\ q_0, q_1 = I \otimes |0\rangle\langle 0| + e^{i\gamma} U(\theta,\phi,\lambda) \otimes |1\rangle\langle 1| = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & e^{i\gamma}\cos(\th) & 0 & -e^{i(\gamma + \lambda)}\sin(\th) \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & e^{i(\gamma+\phi)}\sin(\th) & 0 & e^{i(\gamma+\phi+\lambda)}\cos(\th) \end{pmatrix}\end{split}\end{aligned}\end{align}

Note

In Qiskit’s convention, higher qubit indices are more significant (little endian convention). In many textbooks, controlled gates are presented with the assumption of more significant qubits as control, which in our case would be q_1. Thus a textbook matrix for this gate will be:

     ┌────────────┐
q_0: ┤ U(ϴ,φ,λ,γ) ├
└─────┬──────┘
q_1: ──────■───────

$\begin{split}CU(\theta, \phi, \lambda)\ q_1, q_0 = |0\rangle\langle 0| \otimes I + e^{i\gamma}|1\rangle\langle 1| \otimes U3(\theta,\phi,\lambda) = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & e^{i\gamma} \cos(\th) & -e^{i(\gamma + \lambda)}\sin(\th) \\ 0 & 0 & e^{i(\gamma + \phi)}\sin(\th) & e^{i(\gamma + \phi+\lambda)}\cos(\th) \end{pmatrix}\end{split}$

Create new CU gate.

Attributes

 CUGate.ctrl_state Return the control state of the gate as a decimal integer. CUGate.decompositions Get the decompositions of the instruction from the SessionEquivalenceLibrary. CUGate.definition Return definition in terms of other basic gates. CUGate.label Return gate label CUGate.num_ctrl_qubits Get number of control qubits. CUGate.params return instruction params.

Methods

 CUGate.add_decomposition(decomposition) Add a decomposition of the instruction to the SessionEquivalenceLibrary. Assemble a QasmQobjInstruction CUGate.broadcast_arguments(qargs, cargs) Validation and handling of the arguments and its relationship. CUGate.c_if(classical, val) Add classical condition on register classical and value val. CUGate.control([num_ctrl_qubits, label, …]) Return controlled version of gate. CUGate.copy([name]) Copy of the instruction. Return inverted CU gate. Return True .IFF. DEPRECATED: use instruction.reverse_ops(). CUGate.power(exponent) Creates a unitary gate as gate^exponent. Return a default OpenQASM string for the instruction. Creates an instruction with gate repeated n amount of times. For a composite instruction, reverse the order of sub-instructions. Return a numpy.array for the CU gate.