The Pauli gate interchanges and .
This gate acts by the corresponding Pauli matrix, viewed as a unitary operator on one qubit.

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Pauli-X gate by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
The quantum NOT gate swaps the state of and , i.e. it maps:
As a result, this gate also inverts the probability of measuring 0 or 1, e.g.