Quantum algorithms for charged particle track reconstruction in the LUXE experiment
Abstract
The LUXE experiment is a new experiment in planning in Hamburg, which will study Quantum Electrodynamics at the strong-field frontier. LUXE intends to measure the positron production rate in this unprecedented regime by using, among others, a silicon tracking detector. The large number of expected positrons traversing the sensitive detector layers results in an extremely challenging combinatorial problem, which can become computationally expensive for classical computers. This paper investigates the potential future use of gate-based quantum computers for pattern recognition in track reconstruction. Approaches based on a quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation and a quantum graph neural network are investigated in classical simulations of quantum devices and compared with a classical track reconstruction algorithm. In addition, a proof-of-principle study is performed using quantum hardware.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2304.01690,
title = {Quantum algorithms for charged particle track reconstruction in the LUXE experiment},
author = {Arianna Crippa and Lena Funcke and Tobias Hartung and Beate Heinemann and Karl Jansen and Annabel Kropf and Stefan Kühn and Federico Meloni and David Spataro and Cenk Tüysüz and Yee Chinn Yap},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.01690},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
15 pages, 12 figures