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Fix incorrect gates implementation and the mapping from qrisp's U1 gate to qiskit's U1; i.e: fix the matrices representing such gates.

This covers RGate, SX, SX_dag gates, and the mapping of the U1 gate when converting from qrisp to qiskit.

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Related Issues

Closes #673, #629
Related to #873

Type of Change

  • Feature (new functionality)
  • Change Request (modification of existing functionality)
  • Bug Fix
  • Refactoring (no behavior change)
  • Performance improvement
  • Documentation
  • CI / Build

Breaking Change?

  • Yes
  • No

If yes, describe the impact and migration path:

What was changed?

  • SX, SX_dag gates now have a global phases applied to obtain the correct matrix.

  • RGate's off-diagonals are updated with +-i factors. Concretely, the theta, phi, lambda params are updated.

  • U1 gate mapping was adjusted by maintaining a 1-1 mapping from U1's qrisp implementation (RZ gate) to an RZ gate in qiskit.

  • Relevant tests are updated

How was it tested?

Existing tests pass, after being updated.

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Checklist

  • My code follows the project's coding standards
  • I have performed a self-review
  • I have added/updated tests (referencing issue Test-IDs)
  • All tests pass locally and in CI
  • I have updated the documentation
  • I have added a changelog entry to changelog-dev.rst
  • Breaking changes are documented with migration path

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  • New Features
    • Added PRX gate support, including a circuit method for applying it and parameter binding that preserves the gate type.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected gate matrices and global-phase handling for rotation and square-root-of-X gates, including controlled operations.
    • Updated Qiskit and PennyLane conversions to preserve expected gate behavior, including U1 conversion.
    • Corrected square-root-of-X dagger behavior and its use in operator basis changes.
  • Deprecations
    • The legacy R gate and circuit method remain available but now emit deprecation warnings and apply PRX operations.

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The PR adds PRXGate and QuantumCircuit.prx, deprecates RGate and QuantumCircuit.r, updates SX-family gate phases and controlled U3 phase synthesis, and revises Qiskit and PennyLane mappings. Tests and documentation cover these changes.

Changes: Standard-Gate Convention Corrections

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gate definitions and circuit API
src/qrisp/circuit/standard_operations.py, src/qrisp/circuit/pass_management/passes/convert_to_prx.py, src/qrisp/circuit/quantum_circuit.py, src/qrisp/core/gate_application_functions.py, src/qrisp/operators/qubit/qubit_operator.py, src/qrisp/jasp/interpreter_tools/interpreters/catalyst_interpreter.py, tests/circuit_tests/operation_tests/test_standard_operations.py, tests/circuit_tests/passes/test_PRXGate.py, tests/circuit_tests/test_quantum_circuit.py, tests/core_tests/test_gate_application_functions.py, tests/operators_tests/test_qubit_operator.py, tests/jax_tests/test_catalyst_interface.py, documentation/source/reference/Circuit Manipulation/QuantumCircuit.rst, documentation/source/general/changelog/changelog-dev.rst
PRXGate is added as a U3Gate subclass with inverse and parameter-binding behavior. RGate and QuantumCircuit.r now warn and use PRX operations; QuantumCircuit.prx is added. SXGate and SXDGGate set global phases of π/4 and −π/4. SX-dagger application and the Y-factor basis change use the updated gate definitions. Tests and documentation cover these changes.
Controlled U3 phase synthesis
src/qrisp/circuit/controlled_operations.py, tests/core_tests/test_controlled_gates.py, tests/circuit_tests/operation_tests/test_u3_gate.py
Controlled U3 synthesis includes the gate global phase in diagonal, RX, RY, and general phase synthesis. Tests compare controlled-gate unitaries with their synthesized definitions.
Qiskit and PennyLane mappings
src/qrisp/interface/converter/*, tests/interface_tests/test_converter_qrisp_to_qml.py, tests/interface_tests/test_qiskit_converter.py, documentation/source/general/changelog/changelog-dev.rst
Qiskit maps u1 to RZGate and maps Qiskit’s u1 operation name to Qrisp p. PennyLane maps sx to qml.SX and prx to qml.Rot with revised parameters. Converter tests cover gate unitaries, controls, inverse gates, and symbolic parameters.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant QuantumCircuit
  participant PRXGate
  participant PennyLaneConverter
  participant PennyLane
  QuantumCircuit->>PRXGate: create prx operation with alpha and beta
  PRXGate->>PennyLaneConverter: provide prx parameters
  PennyLaneConverter->>PennyLane: emit qml.Rot
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Possibly related issues

  • eclipse-qrisp/Qrisp#996 reports controlled U1 and SX behavior tied to global-phase differences. This PR updates controlled phase synthesis and the U1 and SX gate conventions.

Possibly related PRs

  • eclipse-qrisp/Qrisp#932: The PR tests controlled powers of a unitary for phase estimation. This change updates global-phase handling in controlled U3 synthesis.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 2b72c

Converting a controlled PRX gate (including the deprecated R gate) to PennyLane would fail. The documentation build also appears broken by a changelog formatting issue. Fix both before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b424e

The changes correct gate behavior within existing construction and conversion paths. No introduced security vulnerability or increased authority was identified. Risk is low because downstream users can observe different circuit results, and compatibility coverage is not exhaustive.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated propagation is across circuits and framework conversions using the corrected gates. The inspected paths operate on caller-supplied circuit objects; they do not demonstrate new tenant, credential, service, or persistent-store authority. Deployment-wide exposure cannot be quantified without external caller topology.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The base-to-head mapping edits change circuit semantics within existing conversion paths, not the identity or authority of their callers. Inspection found no new attacker-controlled route or bypass of an existing security control in those edits; this conclusion is limited to the inspected repository paths.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 5

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Title check Passed The title identifies the gate implementation and mapping fixes, which are the main changes, though it does not name the affected gates.
Description check Passed The description covers the purpose, related issues, change type, key fixes, and test status. It marks the change as breaking but does not describe the migration path, and it omits the move from RGate …
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #673 requires Qrisp SXGate and SXDGGate to match Qiskit’s global-phase convention, including in controlled use. The PR sets their global phases to π/4 and −π/4, accounts for global phase…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The RGate/PRXGate and U1/RZ changes match the current PR description. The controlled-gate, PennyLane, Catalyst, basis-change, converter, and test changes support the stated gate-matrix and con…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is inconclusive: files from earlier reviews still need to be rechecked within the check's analysis limits. Not blocking.
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The description covers the purpose, related issues, change type, key fixes, and test status. It marks the change as breaking but does not describe the migration path, and it omits the move from RGate and QuantumCircuit.r to PRXGate and QuantumCircuit.prx.

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Issue #673 requires Qrisp SXGate and SXDGGate to match Qiskit’s global-phase convention, including in controlled use. The PR sets their global phases to π/4 and −π/4, accounts for global phase in controlled-gate synthesis, and adds matrix, controlled-gate, and Qiskit round-trip tests.

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The RGate/PRXGate and U1/RZ changes match the current PR description. The controlled-gate, PennyLane, Catalyst, basis-change, converter, and test changes support the stated gate-matrix and conversion fixes. The summary shows no demonstrated unrelated change.

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Thanks for the fixes! The new matrices themselves check out (R, SX/SX† and the controlled SX). I left a few comments below on inverses, the conversions and some related gate code that still needs attention.

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Separate from the gate fixes: while going through this PR I noticed that qiskit_converter.py as a whole could use some love. convert_to_qiskit and convert_from_qiskit are each well over 100 lines and do many different things in a single loop, and create_qiskit_instruction is a very long if/elif chain. The issues found in this PR show how easily things slip through in there.

Could you take this on in a separate follow-up PR? Let's keep this one focused on the gate fixes. Rough goals:

  • shorter, more readable functions, with the individual steps pulled out into smaller helper functions
  • type hints throughout

How exactly you structure it is up to you. Have a look around the other converters for inspiration, and feel free to sketch your idea here or in a draft PR before going all in. Since this should be a pure refactor, it's worth making sure the converter is well covered by tests first, so you can be confident nothing changes behaviour. You'll probably stumble over some dead code along the way, too 🙂

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Separate from the gate fixes: while going through this PR I noticed that qiskit_converter.py as a whole could use some love. convert_to_qiskit and convert_from_qiskit are each well over 100 lines and do many different things in a single loop, and create_qiskit_instruction is a very long if/elif chain. The issues found in this PR show how easily things slip through in there.

Could you take this on in a separate follow-up PR? Let's keep this one focused on the gate fixes. Rough goals:

* shorter, more readable functions, with the individual steps pulled out into smaller helper functions

* type hints throughout

How exactly you structure it is up to you. Have a look around the other converters for inspiration, and feel free to sketch your idea here or in a draft PR before going all in. Since this should be a pure refactor, it's worth making sure the converter is well covered by tests first, so you can be confident nothing changes behaviour. You'll probably stumble over some dead code along the way, too 🙂

Yeah that's what I was working on, I just can't stack pr's yet as i am not a committer :D
I didn't focus on type hints though, good point!

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affected (`PR #941 <https://github.com/eclipse-qrisp/Qrisp/pull/941>`_).
* Fixed the matrices of several standard gates and their conversions:

- ``RGate(theta, phi)`` now implements ``RZ(phi) RX(theta) RZ(-phi)``,

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In IQM language this gate is called PRX. It would probably make sense to not have this duplicated (i.e. remove RGate, move PRXGate into the standard operations).

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After the rtd crash is fixed and the PRX -> R deprecation is done, this should be mergeable :)

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After the rtd crash is fixed and the PRX -> R deprecation is done, this should be mergeable :)

Is the rtd crash something i can fix?
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Minor · Add a blank line before the (PR #949 ...) reference. · changelog-dev.rst:584-585

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Add a blank line before the (PR #949 ...) reference.

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   - ``U1Gate`` now converts to Qiskit's ``RZGate`` instead of ``PhaseGate``,
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Check the docs build locally. I think there might be an issue with something in the docs build which is why RTD build is failing. You should get a better error locally.

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Fix incorrect gates implementation (i.e: use the correct matrices).
This covers RGate, SX, SX_dag gates.
Also the U1 maps to an RZ Gate in qrisp but maps to a phase gate in
qiskit, so necessary global phase is now added when doing the mapping.
After the R gate fix, RGate(theta, phi) and PRXGate(theta, phi) are the
same gate, U3(theta, phi - pi/2, pi/2 - phi). Keeping both meant two
names, two parameter conventions and two converter mappings for one
gate, so PRXGate becomes the single implementation.

Deprecations (both emit QrispDeprecationWarning and keep working):
- RGate is now a thin PRXGate subclass. RGate(theta, phi) builds
  PRXGate(theta, phi), so the operation is named "prx" instead of "r"
  and stores its angles as alpha and beta.
- QuantumCircuit.r forwards to the new QuantumCircuit.prx.

Supporting changes:
- Move PRXGate from passes/convert_to_prx.py to standard_operations.py,
  which convert_to_prx now imports from. Existing imports keep working.
- Give PRXGate default angles of 0 and add it to op_list, so the Qiskit
  converter can register it. RGate is left out of op_list so that
  importing qrisp does not emit the warning. Qiskit's "r" is still
  imported as PRXGate.
- Rename the PennyLane mapping key from "r" to "prx" (same qml.Rot
  formula), since no operation is named "r" anymore.

Tests and docs:
- Move the PRXGate tests from passes/test_PRXGate.py into
  test_standard_operations.py, since they test the gate, not the pass.
  The RGate unitary tests now test PRXGate directly, and TestRGate only
  covers the deprecation.
- Add QuantumCircuit.prx to the docs and a changelog entry.
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SX gate unitary only matches only up to global phase to Qiskit unitary

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