Controlled quantum gates are gates that have two types of input qubits:
These gates can be understood as doing a certain unitary operation only if the control qubits are enabled or disabled.
The first example to look at is the CNOT gate.
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The black dot means "control qubit", and "U" means an arbitrary Unitary operation.
When the operand has a conventional symbol, e.g. the Figure "Quantum NOT gate symbol" for the quantum NOT gate to form the CNOT gate, that symbol is used in the operand instead.
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The Hadamard gate takes or (quantum states with probability 1.0 of measuring either 0 or 1), and produces states that have equal probability of 0 or 1.
Some authors use the convention of:
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