openfermion.utils.commutator

Compute the commutator of two operators.

Main aliases

openfermion.utils.commutator(
    operator_a, operator_b
)

Used in the tutorials
Introduction to OpenFermion

Args
operator_a, operator_b: Operators in commutator. Any operators are accepted so long as implicit subtraction and multiplication are supported; e.g. QubitOperators, FermionOperators, BosonOperators, or Scipy sparse matrices. 2D Numpy arrays are also supported.

Raises
`TypeError`	operator_a and operator_b are not of the same type.

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Last updated 2025-06-06 UTC.

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