3–6 Feb 2026
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Local fermion-to-qudit mappings

5 Feb 2026, 17:05
20m
Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti

Auditorium U12 - Guido Martinotti

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Edificio U12, Via Vizzola, 5, 20126 Milano (MI)

Speaker

Rodolfo Carobene (University of Milano-Bicocca and INFN Milano-Bicocca)

Description

We present a family of local fermion-to-qudit mappings that exploit four-level systems to encode fermionic degrees of freedom with local qudit operators. By tailoring the mappings to both spinless and spinful fermions, we achieve lower qudit weight and shallower circuit constructions compared with standard fermion encodings such as the Jordan–Wigner transformation. The resulting representations preserve locality while maintaining compatibility with currently accessible multi-level hardware, particularly superconducting qudits. We benchmark the approach through Trotterized simulations of archetypal models—including the spinless t−V model and the two-dimensional Fermi–Hubbard model, demonstrating reductions in two-qudit gate counts without added computational overhead. These results indicate that qudit-based architectures provide a scalable and resource-efficient pathway for simulating interacting fermionic systems.

References

Local fermion-to-qudit mappings: A practical recipe for four-level systems: https://doi.org/10.1103/bcs4-hxl3

Sessions Quantum Simulation
Invited No

Author

Rodolfo Carobene (University of Milano-Bicocca and INFN Milano-Bicocca)

Co-authors

Dr Andrea Giachero (INFN Milano-Bicocca) Dr Jannes Nys (ETH Zürich) Dr Stefano Barison (IBM Quantum)

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