Rotation gates
A rotation gate is a general-purpose transformation that turns the qubit q radians (with some other constant value f). It forms the basis of many other one-qubit gates as, depending on what value is used for q and f (in particular, the identity gate (q = 0) and the combination of phase shift and NOT gates (q = ¹/2, f = 0) which are discussed below). Since it has varying effects for each values of q, scientists have focused on how to put techniques from a rotation gate to other, more specific uses.
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Created by Brian Patterson
Last Modified 11/22/00