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Quantum simulations of High Energy Physics, and especially of gauge theories, is an emerging and exciting direction in quantum simulations. However, simulations of such theories, compared to simulations of condensed matter physics, must…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Erez Zohar , J. Ignacio Cirac , Benni Reznik

Quantum simulations of scalar quantum field theories (QFT) provide important benchmarks for demonstrating quantum advantage. We revisit digitization in the occupation basis, which is typically hindered by unfavorable circuit depth scaling.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Qing-Hong Cao , Ying-Ying Li , Xiaohui Liu , Liang-Qi Zhang , Ke Zhao

This work provides a relativistic, digital quantum simulation scheme for both $2+1$ and $3+1$ dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED), based on a discrete spacetime formulation of theory. It takes the form of a quantum circuit, infinitely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Nathanaël Eon , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Giuseppe Magnifico , Pablo Arrighi

This paper presents a simple model that mimics quantum mechanics (QM) results without using complex wavefunctions or non-localities. The proposed model only uses integer-valued quantities and arithmetic operations, in particular assuming a…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Antonio Sciarretta

Gauge field theories play a central role in modern physics and are at the heart of the Standard Model of elementary particles and interactions. Despite significant progress in applying classical computational techniques to simulate gauge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Zohreh Davoudi , Mohammad Hafezi , Christopher Monroe , Guido Pagano , Alireza Seif , Andrew Shaw

In this study, we propose a quantum-classical hybrid scheme for performing orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) using probabilistic imaginary-time evolution (PITE), designed for the era of fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQC),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Yusuke Nishiya , Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

Quantum algorithms for simulating electronic ground states are slower than popular classical mean-field algorithms such as Hartree-Fock and density functional theory, but offer higher accuracy. Accordingly, quantum computers have been…

Simulation of quantum systems is notoriously challenging for classical computers, while quantum hardware is naturally well-suited for this task. However, the imperfections of contemporary quantum systems poses a considerable challenge in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Yotam Shapira , Jovan Markov , Nitzan Akerman , Ady Stern , Roee Ozeri

It is widely anticipated that a large-scale quantum computer will offer an evermore accurate simulation of nature, opening the floodgates for exciting scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations. Here, we show a complete,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Angus Kan , Yunseong Nam

Analog quantum simulation has the potential to be an indispensable technique in the investigation of complex quantum systems. In this work, we numerically investigate a one-dimensional, faithful, analog, quantum electronic circuit simulator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Ananda Roy , Dirk Schuricht , Johannes Hauschild , Frank Pollmann , Hubert Saleur

Quantum circuits are time dependent diagrams describing the process of quantum computation. Usually, a quantum algorithm must be mapped into a quantum circuit. Optimal synthesis of quantum circuits is intractable and heuristic methods must…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-27 D. Maslov , G. W. Dueck , D. M. Miller , C. Negrevergne

I describe how simulations of lattice QCD using the path integral formulation provide the two basic quantum mechanical properties of QCD, its ground state in which correlation functions are calculated, and Fock state wavefunctions between…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-20 Rajan Gupta

Transport phenomena play a key role in a variety of application domains, and efficient simulation of these dynamics remains an outstanding challenge. While quantum computers offer potential for significant speedups, existing algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Joseph Li , Gengzhi Yang , Jiaqi Leng , Xiaodi Wu

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) describes the structure of hadrons such as the proton at a fundamental level. The precision of calculations in QCD limits the precision of the values of many physical parameters extracted from collider data. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Michael Kreshchuk , William M. Kirby , Gary Goldstein , Hugo Beauchemin , Peter J. Love

Recently, quantum simulation of low-dimensional lattice gauge theories (LGTs) has attracted many interests, which may improve our understanding of strongly correlated quantum many-body systems. Here, we propose an implementation to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-10 Zi-Yong Ge , Rui-Zhen Huang , Zi Yang Meng , Heng Fan

Some of the exciting phenomena uncovered in strongly correlated systems in recent years - for instance quantum topological order, deconfined quantum criticality, and emergent gauge symmetries -- appear in systems in which the Hilbert space…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-07 Attila Szabó , Garry Goldstein , Claudio Castelnovo , Alexei M. Tsvelik

Strongly-coupled gauge theories far from equilibrium may exhibit unique features that could illuminate the physics of the early universe and of hadron and ion colliders. Studying real-time phenomena has proven challenging with…

This study presents a novel quantum algorithm for lattice gas automata simulation with a single time step, demonstrating logarithmic complexity in terms of $CX$ gates. The algorithm is composed of three main steps: collision, mapping, and…

Quantum field theory (QFT) simulations are a potentially important application for noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) computers. The ability of a quantum computer to emulate a QFT, therefore, constitutes a natural application-centric…

We revisit the path integral description of quantum tunneling and lay the groundwork for its generalization to excites states through real-time path integral techniques. For clarity, we focus on the simple toy model of a point particle in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-30 Thomas Steingasser , David I. Kaiser