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Fermionic quantum computation

Sergey Bravyi, Alexei Kitaev

abstract: We define a model of quantum computation with local fermionic modes (LFMs) -- sites which can be either empty or occupied by a fermion. With the standard correspondence between the Foch space of $m$ LFMs and the Hilbert space of $m$ qubits, simulation of one fermionic gate takes $O(m)$ qubit gates and vice versa. We show that using different encodings, the simulation cost can be reduced to $O(\log m)$ and a constant, respectively. Nearest-neighbors fermionic gates on a graph of bounded degree can be simulated at a constant cost. A universal set of fermionic gates is found. We also study computation with Majorana fermions which are basically halves of LFMs. Some connection to qubit quantum codes is made.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0003137
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
18 pages, Latex; one reference added
doi:
10.1006/aphy.2002.6254
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0003137
journal_ref:
Annals of Physics, Vol. 298, Iss. 1 (2002) pp.210-226
created:
2000-03-29
updated:
2000-03-31

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