feature: Add delay and barrier for circuits #1002
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Issue #, if available:
#974
Description of changes:
Starting with the changes from #993 and performing the additional work required to merge to
main
.The biggest outstanding items are:
Barrier
andDelay
should likely inherit fromCompilerDirective
rather thanGate
, since they are instructions that affect the compilation of a program rather than the quantum state. See this comment thread.DurationGate
class and the existingAngledGate
class that should be reduced. See this comment thread.barrier()
with no qubit arguments should add a barrier on all qubits (i.e.,barrier;
in OpenQASM). See this comment thread.Testing done:
tox
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