qrisp.lock

lock(qubits)

Locks a list of qubits, implying an error will be raised if the user tries to perform any operation involving these qubits.

This can be reversed by calling unlock.

Parameters:

qubitslist[Qubit] or QuantumVariable

The list of Qubits to lock.

Examples

We create a QuantumChar, lock it’s Qubits and attempt to initialize.

>>> from qrisp import QuantumChar, lock
>>> q_ch = QuantumChar()
>>> lock(q_ch)
>>> q_ch[:] = "g"
Exception: Tried to operation on locked qubits