# Create your own n-qubit quantum gate in Qiskit

I need to create the 2-qubit gates that are not supported by Qiskit (Ex: Controlled - F gate). Is there any way to create a class/object and use it as other basic gates?

Example:

qc = qiskit.QuantumCircuit(2,2)
qc.h(0)
qc.cf(0, 1)


Thanks!

One way to achieve this is as follows:

from qiskit import QuantumCircuit

def cf(circuit, qubit1, qubit2):
# Create a circuit that is equivalent to your gate:
qc = QuantumCircuit(2)
qc.cx(0, 1)
qc.csx(1, 0)
qc.cx(0, 1)

# Convert the circuit to a gate:
sr_swap = qc.to_gate(label = '√SWAP')

# Add the gate to your circuit which is passed as the first argument to cf function:
circuit.append(sr_swap, [qubit1, qubit2])

# We need this line to add the method to QuantumCircuit class:
QuantumCircuit.cf = cf


Now, you can use cf as other QuantumCircuit gates:

circ = QuantumCircuit(2)
circ.cf(0, 1)
circ.draw('mpl')


• Thanks, it's work! Nov 7 at 2:20

You can create a circuit that implements the gate you want and then convert that circuit to a gate. Once you have that gate, you can append it to other circuits. For example, you can do the following:

cf = QuantumCircuit(2)
cf.unitary(mat, [0, 1])
cf_gate = cf.to_gate()


Where mat is the unitary matrix that represents the effect of the controlled $$F$$ gate (or any other gate you want). cf_gate will be a Gate as you wanted, and you can append it to other circuits as follows:

qc = QuantumCircuit(2)
qc.append(cf_gate, [0, 1])