What is the controlled-controlled-controlled-Z gate?

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What is the controlled-controlled-controlled-Z gate?

The controlled-controlled-controlled-Z gate, also known as the Toffoli gate, is a three-qubit gate in quantum computing. It performs a controlled-Z operation on the target qubit if and only if both control qubits are in the state |1⟩. If the control qubits are in the state |0⟩, the target qubit remains unchanged. This gate is commonly used in quantum algorithms for various computational tasks, including reversible computing and error correction.