Authors
Rami Barends, Lucas Lamata, Julian Kelly, L García-Álvarez, Austin G Fowler, Anthony Megrant, Evan Jeffrey, Ted C White, Daniel Sank, Josh Y Mutus, B Campbell, Yu Chen, Zhaoshi Chen, B Chiaro, A Dunsworth, I-C Hoi, C Neill, PJJ O’Malley, Céline Quintana, P Roushan, A Vainsencher, J Wenner, E Solano, John M Martinis
Publication date
2015/7/8
Journal
Nature communications
Volume
6
Issue
1
Pages
7654
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
One of the key applications of quantum information is simulating nature. Fermions are ubiquitous in nature, appearing in condensed matter systems, chemistry and high energy physics. However, universally simulating their interactions is arguably one of the largest challenges, because of the difficulties arising from anticommutativity. Here we use digital methods to construct the required arbitrary interactions, and perform quantum simulation of up to four fermionic modes with a superconducting quantum circuit. We employ in excess of 300 quantum logic gates, and reach fidelities that are consistent with a simple model of uncorrelated errors. The presented approach is in principle scalable to a larger number of modes, and arbitrary spatial dimensions.
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