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Toffoli and Fredkin gates

Definition

All bits are in F2={0,1}, with addition denoted by ⊕ and multiplication by juxtaposition. On three distinct ordered computational-basis wires, define the Toffoli gate T and Fredkin gate F by

T∣a,b,t⟩=∣a,b,t⊕ab⟩,

and

F∣0,a,b⟩=∣0,a,b⟩,F∣1,a,b⟩=∣1,b,a⟩.

These basis actions extend linearly. Wire order is exactly the order displayed; the first two wires of T are controls and the third is its target, while the first wire of F is its control and the other two are conditionally swapped. Negative-control variants mean conjugating the chosen positive control by X before and after the gate. These are fixed arity-three labels in the declared finite gate alphabet, not implicit access to arbitrary multicontrol gates. Their reversibility is established in X, CNOT, Toffoli, and Fredkin are involutions ↗.

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