Encodings
HamiltonianSkeleton Type
A precomputed encoding skeleton separating Pauli structure from integral coefficients.
Computing a qubit Hamiltonian has two independent parts:
Structure — which Pauli strings appear for each operator product (depends only on the encoding and system size). Coefficients — the integral values that scale each term (depends on the molecular geometry / parameters).
The skeleton captures part (1) once, then applyCoefficients evaluates part (2) cheaply for any coefficient set. This is ideal for potential energy surface scans where the basis set (and encoding structure) is fixed but integral values vary with geometry.
Record fields
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Description
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Full Usage:
NumQubits
Field type: uint32
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Number of qubits in the system.
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One-body entries: a†_i a_j encoded as Pauli strings.
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Two-body entries: a†_i a†_j a_l a_k encoded as Pauli strings.
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