HamiltonianCosts Type
Comprehensive cost metrics for a Hamiltonian in Pauli basis.
These metrics are encoding-dependent — comparing them across encodings reveals which encoding minimises a given cost for a particular molecule.
Record fields
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IdentityCoeff
Field type: float
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Coefficient of the all-identity term (global energy offset).
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LambdaNorm
Field type: float
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LCU 1-norm: Σ|cₖ|. Governs qubitization query complexity.
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MaxPauliWeight
Field type: int
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Maximum Pauli weight (non-identity count) across all terms.
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MeanPauliWeight
Field type: float
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Mean Pauli weight across all terms.
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QubitCount
Field type: int
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Number of qubits the Hamiltonian acts on.
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TermCount
Field type: int
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Number of distinct Pauli terms (after like-term combination).
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TotalPauliWeight
Field type: int
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Sum of Pauli weights across all terms. Proxy for total CNOT cost in Trotter.
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