Stephen Jordan (Caltech), a friend and collaborator, gave a group meeting to our group about his recent model of quantum computation using Fermions. The model uses a tree-representation to describe Fermionic Young’s diagrams. The details are left to his upcoming papers on quant-ph/.  This model is quite appealing as we quantum chemists think about Fermion symmetry for molecular wave functions in the configuration interaction-type methods. His diagrams look something like:

Stephen Jordan Fermion quantum computation

After his talk, we began trying to find more organic ways of representing these trees and came up with the following representation:

Stephen Jordan and Alan Aspuru-Guzik



One Response to “Fermionic Permutation Quantum Computation.”  

  1. 1 Jon

    Dude, your moves don’t compete with Seth’s MRI dance.


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