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Quantum Machine Learning in High Energy Physics

Quantum Physics 2020-10-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Machine learning has been used in high energy physics for a long time, primarily at the analysis level with supervised classification. Quantum computing was postulated in the early 1980s as way to perform computations that would not be tractable with a classical computer. With the advent of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing devices, more quantum algorithms are being developed with the aim at exploiting the capacity of the hardware for machine learning applications. An interesting question is whether there are ways to apply quantum machine learning to High Energy Physics. This paper reviews the first generation of ideas that use quantum machine learning on problems in high energy physics and provide an outlook on future applications.

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@article{arxiv.2005.08582,
  title  = {Quantum Machine Learning in High Energy Physics},
  author = {Wen Guan and Gabriel Perdue and Arthur Pesah and Maria Schuld and Koji Terashi and Sofia Vallecorsa and Jean-Roch Vlimant},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08582},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Machine Learning: Science and Technology, Focus on Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics collection

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