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We consider two approaches to designing fermion-qubit mappings: (1) ternary tree transformations, which use Pauli representations of the Majorana operators that correspond to root-to-leaf paths of a tree graph and (2) linear encodings of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Mitchell Chiew , Brent Harrison , Sergii Strelchuk

In order to simulate a system of fermions on a quantum computer, it is necessary to represent the fermionic states and operators on qubits. This can be accomplished in multiple ways, including the well-known Jordan-Wigner transform, as well…

Fermion-to-qubit mappings are used to represent fermionic modes on quantum computers, an essential first step in many quantum algorithms for electronic structure calculations. In this work, we present a formalism to design flexible…

We introduce a fermion-to-qubit mapping defined on ternary trees, where any single Majorana operator on an $n$-mode fermionic system is mapped to a multi-qubit Pauli operator acting nontrivially on $\lceil \log_3(2n+1)\rceil$ qubits. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Zhang Jiang , Amir Kalev , Wojciech Mruczkiewicz , Hartmut Neven

This paper introduces the Hamiltonian-Adaptive Ternary Tree (HATT) framework to compile optimized Fermion-to-qubit mapping for specific Fermionic Hamiltonians. In the simulation of Fermionic quantum systems, efficient Fermion-to-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Yuhao Liu , Kevin Yao , Jonathan Hong , Julien Froustey , Ermal Rrapaj , Costin Iancu , Gushu Li , Yunong Shi

The ZX-calculus is a graphical language for suitably represented tensor networks, called ZX-diagrams. Calculations are performed by transforming ZX-diagrams with rewrite rules. The ZX-calculus has found applications in reasoning about…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Alex Townsend-Teague , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis

Quantum computers hold great promise for efficiently simulating Fermionic systems, benefiting fields like quantum chemistry and materials science. To achieve this, algorithms typically begin by choosing a Fermion-to-qubit mapping to encode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Aaron Miller , Adam Glos , Zoltán Zimborás

Quantum simulation of fermionic systems is a promising application of quantum computers, but in order to program them, we need to map fermionic states and operators to qubit states and quantum gates. While quantum processors may be built as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Mark Steudtner , Stephanie Wehner

In ab-initio electronic structure simulations, fermion-to-qubit mappings represent the initial encoding step of the fermionic problem into qubits. This work introduces a physically-inspired method for constructing mappings that…

Simulation of fermionic Hamiltonians with gate-based quantum computers requires the selection of an encoding from fermionic operators to quantum gates, the most widely used being the Jordan-Wigner transform. Many alternative encodings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Michael Williams de la Bastida , Thomas M. Bickley , Peter V. Coveney

Mappings between fermions and qubits are valuable constructions in physics. To date only a handful exist. In addition to revealing dualities between fermionic and spin systems, such mappings are indispensable in any quantum simulation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Charles Derby , Joel Klassen

We introduce a graphical calculus, consisting of a set of fermionic tensors with tensor-network equations, which can be used to perform various computations in fermionic many-body physics purely diagrammatically. The indices of our tensors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Yuanjie Ren , Kaifeng Bu , Andreas Bauer

Mapping fermionic operators to qubit operators is an essential step for simulating fermionic systems on a quantum computer. We investigate how the choice of such a mapping interacts with the underlying qubit connectivity of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Jacob Bringewatt , Zohreh Davoudi

Simulating fermionic systems on a quantum computer requires a high-performing mapping of fermionic states to qubits. A characteristic of an efficient mapping is its ability to translate local fermionic interactions into local qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Mitchell Chiew , Sergii Strelchuk

Fermion-to-qubit mappings play a crucial role in representing fermionic interactions on a quantum computer. Efficient mappings translate fermionic modes of a system to qubit interactions with a high degree of locality while using few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Oliver O'Brien , Sergii Strelchuk

In this paper, we present a new set of local fermion-to-qudit mappings for simulating fermionic lattice systems. We focus on the use of multi-level qudits, specifically ququarts. Traditional mappings, such as the Jordan-Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Rodolfo Carobene , Stefano Barison , Andrea Giachero , Jannes Nys

Quantum simulation of fermionic systems is a leading application of quantum computers. One promising approach is to represent fermions with qubits via fermion-to-qubit mappings. In this work, we present high-distance fermion-to-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ruby Wei , Aqua Chung , Luke Coffman , Su-Kuan Chu , Xun Gao

This paper introduces Fermihedral, a compiler framework focusing on discovering the optimal Fermion-to-qubit encoding for targeted Fermionic Hamiltonians. Fermion-to-qubit encoding is a crucial step in harnessing quantum computing for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Yuhao Liu , Shize Che , Junyu Zhou , Yunong Shi , Gushu Li

We introduce the fermionic ZW calculus, a string-diagrammatic language for fermionic quantum computing (FQC). After defining a fermionic circuit model, we present the basic components of the calculus, together with their interpretation, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Giovanni de Felice , Amar Hadzihasanovic , Kang Feng Ng

Simulating fermionic systems on a quantum computer requires representing fermionic states using qubits. The complexity of many simulation algorithms depends on the complexity of implementing rotations generated by fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Joseph Carolan , Luke Schaeffer
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