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Basics

Introduction to the most important QURI Parts concepts.

📄️ Fermion-qubit mappings

In order to simulate the dynamics of physical systems with a quantum computer, it is necessary to map the Hamiltonian of an electron to the qubit counterpart. Hamiltonians for fermionic systems, as typically used in quantum chemistry, are often expressed using anti-commuting creation and annihilation operators: $ci^{\dagger}$, $ci$ under second quantization. If we can rewrite the creation and annihilation operators as Pauli operators that can act on qubits, we can represent them on a quantum computer.