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Three-flavor Collective Neutrino Oscillations on D-Wave's {\tt Advantage} Quantum Annealer

Quantum Physics 2025-02-11 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In extreme environments such as core-collapse supernovae, neutron-star mergers, and the early Universe, neutrinos are dense enough that their self-interactions significantly affect, if not dominate, their flavor dynamics. In order to develop techniques for characterizing the resulting quantum entanglement, I present the results of simulations of Dirac neutrino-neutrino interactions that include all three physical neutrino flavors and were performed on D-Wave Inc.'s {\tt Advantage} 5000+ qubit quantum annealer. These results are checked against those from exact classical simulations, which are also used to compare the Dirac neutrino-neutrino interactions to neutrino-antineutrino and Majorana neutrino-neutrino interactions. The D-Wave {\tt Advantage} annealer is shown to be able to reproduce time evolution with the precision of a classical machine for small numbers of neutrinos and to do so without Trotter errors. However, it suffers from poor scaling in qubit-count with the number of neutrinos.

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@article{arxiv.2405.20436,
  title  = {Three-flavor Collective Neutrino Oscillations on D-Wave's {\tt Advantage} Quantum Annealer},
  author = {Ivan A. Chernyshev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20436},
  year   = {2025}
}

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31 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables