diff --git a/docs/guide.rst b/docs/guide.rst
index 8115739..9e5f851 100644
--- a/docs/guide.rst
+++ b/docs/guide.rst
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Basic quantum circuit execution follows the regular Qiskit workflow. A quantum c
 
    circuit = qiskit.QuantumCircuit(2)
    circuit.h(0)
-   circuit.cnot(0, 1)
+   circuit.cx(0, 1)
    circuit.measure_all()
 
 .. warning:: AQT backends currently require a single projective measurement as last operation in a circuit. The hardware implementation always targets all the qubits in the quantum register, even if the circuit defines a partial measurement.
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ In this Bell state, the expectation value of the the :math:`\sigma_z\otimes\sigm
 
    bell_circuit = qiskit.QuantumCircuit(2)
    bell_circuit.h(0)
-   bell_circuit.cnot(0, 1)
+   bell_circuit.cx(0, 1)
 
    observable = SparsePauliOp.from_list([("ZZ", 1)])
    result = estimator.run(bell_circuit, observable).result()
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index d42f7be..10be1b8 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Define a circuit that generates 2-qubit Bell state and sample it on a simulator
    # Define a circuit.
    circuit = QuantumCircuit(2)
    circuit.h(0)
-   circuit.cnot(0, 1)
+   circuit.cx(0, 1)
    circuit.measure_all()
 
    # Select an execution backend.
diff --git a/examples/quickstart-sampler.py b/examples/quickstart-sampler.py
index fdda405..9cb1855 100644
--- a/examples/quickstart-sampler.py
+++ b/examples/quickstart-sampler.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # Define a circuit
 circuit = QuantumCircuit(2)
 circuit.h(0)
-circuit.cnot(0, 1)
+circuit.cx(0, 1)
 circuit.measure_all()
 
 # Select an execution backend
diff --git a/test/test_resource.py b/test/test_resource.py
index 52c317c..facb19a 100644
--- a/test/test_resource.py
+++ b/test/test_resource.py
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ def test_offline_simulator_detects_invalid_circuits(
     """
     qc = QuantumCircuit(2)
     qc.h(0)
-    qc.cnot(0, 1)
+    qc.cx(0, 1)
     qc.measure_all()
 
     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="^Operation 'h' not in basis gate set"):