Quantum simulation of colour in perturbative quantum chromodynamics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2023-12-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
Quantum computers are expected to give major speed-ups for the simulation of quantum systems. In this work, we present quantum gates that simulate the colour part of the interactions of quarks and gluons in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD). As a first application, we implement these circuits on a simulated noiseless quantum computer and use them to calculate colour factors for various examples of Feynman diagrams. This work constitutes a first key step towards a quantum simulation of generic scattering processes in perturbative QCD.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2303.04818,
title = {Quantum simulation of colour in perturbative quantum chromodynamics},
author = {Herschel A. Chawdhry and Mathieu Pellen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.04818},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
20 pages, 11 figures. v2: published version