%0 Journal Article %T Hardware-efficient fermionic simulation with a cavity每QED system %J - %D 2018 %R https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-018-0065-3 %X In digital quantum simulation of fermionic models with qubits, non-local maps for encoding are often encountered. Such maps require linear or logarithmic overhead in circuit depth which could render the simulation useless, for a given decoherence time. Here we show how one can use a cavity每QED system to perform digital quantum simulation of fermionic models. In particular, we show that highly nonlocal Jordan每Wigner or Bravyi每Kitaev transformations can be efficiently implemented through a hardware approach. The key idea is using ancilla cavity modes, which are dispersively coupled to a qubit string, to collectively manipulate and measure qubit states. Our scheme reduces the circuit depth in each Trotter step of the Jordan每Wigner encoding by a factor of N2, comparing to the scheme for a device with only local connectivity, where N is the number of orbitals for a generic two-body Hamiltonian. Additional analysis for the Fermi每Hubbard model on an Nˋ℅ˋN square lattice results in a similar reduction. We also discuss a detailed implementation of our scheme with superconducting qubits and cavities %U https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-018-0065-3