openfermion.circuits.jw_slater_determinant

Obtain a Slater determinant.

openfermion.circuits.jw_slater_determinant(
    slater_determinant_matrix
)

The input is an \(N_f \times N\) matrix \(Q\) with orthonormal rows. Such a matrix describes the Slater determinant

\[ b^\dagger_1 \cdots b^\dagger_{N_f} \lvert \text{vac} \rangle, \]

where

\[ b^\dagger_j = \sum_{k = 1}^N Q_{jk} a^\dagger_k. \]

slater_determinant_matrix The matrix \(Q\) which describes the Slater determinant to be prepared.

The Slater determinant as a sparse matrix.