A Compact Fermion to Qubit Mapping Part 2: Alternative Lattice Geometries

Abstract

In recent work [arXiv:2003.06939v2] a novel fermion to qubit mapping -- called the compact encoding -- was introduced which outperforms all previous local mappings in both the qubit to mode ratio, and the locality of mapped operators. There the encoding was demonstrated for square and hexagonal lattices. Here we present an extension of that work by illustrating how to apply the compact encoding to other regular lattices. We give constructions for variants of the compact encoding on all regular tilings with maximum degree 4. These constructions yield edge operators with Pauli weight at most 3 and use fewer than 1.67 qubits per fermionic mode. Additionally we demonstrate how the compact encoding may be applied to a cubic lattice, yielding edge operators with Pauli weight no greater than 4 and using approximately 2.5 qubits per mode. In order to properly analyse the compact encoding on these lattices a more general group theoretic framework is required, which we elaborate upon in this work. We expect this framework to find use in the design of fermion to qubit mappings more generally.

arXiv comment35 pages

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