Partonic collinear structure by quantum computing
Abstract
We present a systematic quantum algorithm, which integrates both the hadronic state preparation and the evaluation of real-time light-front correlators, to study parton distribution functions (PDFs). As a proof of concept, we demonstrate the first direct simulation of the PDFs in the 1+1 dimensional Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. We show the results obtained by exact diagonalization and by quantum computation using classical hardware. The agreement between these two distinct methods and the qualitative consistency with QCD PDFs validate the proposed quantum algorithm. Our work suggests the encouraging prospects of calculating QCD PDFs on current and near-term quantum devices. The presented quantum algorithm is expected to have many applications in high energy particle and nuclear physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.03865,
title = {Partonic collinear structure by quantum computing},
author = {Tianyin Li and Xingyu Guo and Wai Kin Lai and Xiaohui Liu and Enke Wang and Hongxi Xing and Dan-Bo Zhang and Shi-Liang Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.03865},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, published version in PHYSICAL REVIEW D (Letter)