U gate
(Previously called the U3 gate) The three parameters allow the construction of any single-qubit gate. Has a duration of one unit of gate time.
Composer reference | OpenQASM reference | Q-sphere | Note about q-sphere representations |
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| u(theta, phi, lam) q[0];
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| The q-sphere representation shows the state after the gate operates on the initial equal superposition state where is the number of qubits needed to support the gate. |
In IBM Quantum Composer, the default value for angle is .
