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Document reserved gate names
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In Qiskit, the string name attribute of a Gate is used by transpiler passes to determine the type of a gate. A user-defined gate should not use a name that is used by a gate that already exists in Qiskit, because this could break transpiler functionality. Therefore, these existing names should be considered reserved, and we should maintain an explicit list of them.