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Quantum simulation of fermionic systems is a promising application of quantum computers, but in order to program them, we need to map fermionic states and operators to qubit states and quantum gates. While quantum processors may be built as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Mark Steudtner , Stephanie Wehner

Lattice gauge theories are fundamental to our understanding of high-energy physics. Nevertheless, the search for suitable platforms for their quantum simulation has proven difficult. We show that the Abelian Higgs model in 1+1 dimensions is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-05 Jin Zhang , J. Unmuth-Yockey , J. Zeiher , A. Bazavov , S. -W. Tsai , Y. Meurice

Quantum computation represents an emerging framework to solve lattice gauge theories (LGT) with arbitrary gauge groups, a general and long-standing problem in computational physics. While quantum computers may encode LGT using only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Giulia Mazzola , Simon V. Mathis , Guglielmo Mazzola , Ivano Tavernelli

Simulation of quantum field theories and fundamental interactions are one of the most challenging tasks in modern particle physics. Classical computers generally fail to reproduce accurate results when it comes to strongly coupled theories…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-23 Gianluca Esposito , Simone Cepollaro , Luigi Cappiello , Alioscia Hamma

Following a suggestion due to Bardeen and Pearson, we formulate an effective light-front Hamiltonian for large-N gauge theory in (2+1)-dimensions. Two space-time dimensions are continuous and the remaining space dimension is discretised on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Dalley , B. van de Sande

Ideas and recent results for light-front Hamiltonian quantisation of lattice gauge theories.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Dalley , B. van de Sande

Lattice Gauge Theory in 4-dimensional Euclidean space-time is generalized to ribbon categories which replace the category of representations of the gauge group. This provides a framework in which the gauge group becomes a quantum group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hendryk Pfeiffer

We provide a universal framework for the quantum simulation of SU(N) Yang--Mills theories on fault-tolerant digital quantum computers adopting the orbifold lattice formulation. As warm-up examples, we also consider simple models, including…

We study SU(3) gauge theory on small lattices in the minimal (qutrit) electric field truncation retaining only the ${\bf 1}, {\bf 3}, {\bf \overline{3}}$ representations for the link variables. Explicit expressions are given for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-16 Vincent Chen , Berndt Müller , Xiaojun Yao

Conventional approaches to lattice gauge theories do not properly consider the topology of spacetime or of its fields. In this paper, we develop a formulation which tries to remedy this defect. It starts from a cubical decomposition of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 A. P. Balachandran , G. Bimonte , G. Landi , F. Lizzi , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho

Using N=1 Supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) as a prototype model, this work presents a formulation of overlap quarks and gluinos on the lattice, with particular emphasis on the construction of chirally symmetric Yukawa terms. By incorporating the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-07-23 Marios Costa , Eleni Ioannou , Haralambos Panagopoulos

The stated overarching goal of the highly active field of quantum simulation of high-energy physics (HEP) is to achieve the capability to study \textit{ab-initio} real-time microscopic dynamics of $3+1$D quantum chromodynamics (QCD).…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-09 Simone Orlando , Guo-Xian Su , Bing Yang , Jad C. Halimeh

Quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories (LGTs) with both dynamical matter and gauge fields provide a promising approach to studying strongly coupled problems beyond classical computational reach. Yet, implementing gauge-invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 S. Saner , O. Băzăvan , D. J. Webb , G. Araneda , C. J. Ballance , R. Srinivas , D. M. Lucas , A. Bermúdez

State-of-the-art algorithms for simulating fermions coupled to gauge fields often rely on integrating fermion degrees of freedom. While successful in simulating QCD at zero chemical potential, at finite density these approaches are hindered…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-05 Joao C. Pinto Barros , Thea Budde , Marina Krstic Marinkovic

Gauge theories are fundamental to our understanding of interactions between the elementary constituents of matter as mediated by gauge bosons. However, computing the real-time dynamics in gauge theories is a notorious challenge for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 E. A. Martinez , C. A. Muschik , P. Schindler , D. Nigg , A. Erhard , M. Heyl , P. Hauke , M. Dalmonte , T. Monz , P. Zoller , R. Blatt

We propose a general scheme for a digital construction of lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermions. In this method, the four-body interactions arising in models with $2+1$ dimensions and higher, are obtained stroboscopically, through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Erez Zohar , Alessandro Farace , Benni Reznik , J. Ignacio Cirac

FermiQCD is a C++ library for fast development of parallel Lattice Quantum Field Theory computations. It has been developed following a top-down fully Object Oriented design approach with focus on simplicity of use. FermiQCD includes: a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-04-11 Massimo Di Pierro , Jonthan M. Flynn

Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) form an intriguing class of theories highly relevant to both high-energy particle physics and low-energy condensed matter physics with the rapid development of engineered quantum devices providing new tools to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-22 Rasmus Berg Jensen , Simon Panyella Pedersen , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

Numerical simulation of lattice gauge theories is an indispensable tool in high energy physics, and their quantum simulation is expected to become a major application of quantum computers in the future. In this work, for an Abelian lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Hiroki Sukeno , Takuya Okuda

Non-perturbative Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory presents opportunities and challenges that bridge particle physics and nuclear physics. Fundamental theories, such as Quantum Chromodynmamics (QCD) and Quantum Electrodynamics…