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I came across the Qiskit textbook page for the R_z gate. It's classified as a virtual gate. What does that mean exactly? How does this gate differ from the R_x and R_y gate?

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Here is the main reference for virtual Rz gates: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00858

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