text: # This code is part of Qiskit.
  #
  # (C) Copyright IBM 2020.
  #
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  # obtain a copy of this license in the LICENSE.txt file in the root directory
  # of this source tree or at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
  #
  # Any modifications or derivative works of this code must retain this
  # copyright notice, and modified files need to carry a notice indicating
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  """
  Template 6a_1:
  .. parsed-literal::
                ┌───┐     ┌───┐     ┌───┐
      q_0: ──■──┤ X ├──■──┤ X ├──■──┤ X ├
           ┌─┴─┐└─┬─┘┌─┴─┐└─┬─┘┌─┴─┐└─┬─┘
      q_1: ┤ X ├──■──┤ X ├──■──┤ X ├──■──
           └───┘     └───┘     └───┘
  """
  
  from qiskit.circuit.quantumcircuit import QuantumCircuit
  
  
  def template_nct_6a_1():
      """
      Returns:
          QuantumCircuit: template as a quantum circuit.
      """
      qc = QuantumCircuit(2)
      qc.cx(0, 1)
      qc.cx(1, 0)
      qc.cx(0, 1)
      qc.cx(1, 0)
      qc.cx(0, 1)
      qc.cx(1, 0)
      return qc
  