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Should the rotation axis in ControlledRotYInstruction be [0,1,0]? #40

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@brunorijsman

In file nv.py classes ControlledRotXInstruction and ControlledRotYInstruction both use axis = [1, 0, 0] as the rotation axis.

It seems to me that ControlledRotYInstruction should use axis = [0, 1, 0] as the rotation axis.

Although this seems "obvious", I don't dare to make the change and issue a pull request, because ControlledRotYInstruction is used twice in transpile.py to implement NV operations _move_electron_carbon and _move_carbon_electron. If ControlledRotYInstruction was really wrong, surely those move operations would not work correctly?

@dataclass
class ControlledRotXInstruction(core.ControlledRotationInstruction):
    id: int = 30
    mnemonic: str = "crot_x"

    def to_matrix(self) -> np.ndarray:
        axis = [1, 0, 0]
        angle = self.angle_num.value * np.pi / 2**self.angle_denom.value
        return get_controlled_rotation_matrix(axis, angle)

    def to_matrix_target_only(self) -> np.ndarray:
        axis = [1, 0, 0]
        angle = self.angle_num.value * np.pi / 2**self.angle_denom.value
        return get_rotation_matrix(axis, angle)


@dataclass
class ControlledRotYInstruction(core.ControlledRotationInstruction):
    id: int = 31
    mnemonic: str = "crot_y"

    def to_matrix(self) -> np.ndarray:
        axis = [1, 0, 0]
        angle = self.angle_num.value * np.pi / 2**self.angle_denom.value
        return get_controlled_rotation_matrix(axis, angle)

    def to_matrix_target_only(self) -> np.ndarray:
        axis = [1, 0, 0]
        angle = self.angle_num.value * np.pi / 2**self.angle_denom.value
        return get_rotation_matrix(axis, angle)

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