Quantum Simulation of Conformal Field Theory
Quantum Physics
2021-09-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Conformal field theory, describing systems with scaling symmetry, plays a crucial role throughout physics. We describe a quantum algorithm to simulate the dynamics of conformal field theories, including the action of local conformal transformations. A full analysis of the approximation errors suggests near-term applicability of our algorithm: promising results for conformal field theories with central charge c=1/2 are obtained already with 128 logical qubits.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2109.14214,
title = {Quantum Simulation of Conformal Field Theory},
author = {Tobias J. Osborne and Alexander Stottmeister},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.14214},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
26 pages, 8 figures