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A formally exact discrete multi-resolution representation of quantum field theory on a light front is presented. The formulation uses an orthonormal basis of compactly supported wavelets to expand the fields restricted to a light front. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 W. N. Polyzou

We propose a quantum inverse iteration algorithm which can be used to estimate the ground state properties of a programmable quantum device. The method relies on the inverse power iteration technique, where the sequential application of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Oleksandr Kyriienko

Heisenberg's matrix formulation of quantum mechanics can be generalized to relativistic systems by evolving in light-front time tau = t+z/c. The spectrum and wavefunctions of bound states, such as hadrons in quantum chromodynamics, can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Stanley J. Brodsky

In the light-front (LF) formulation of quantum field theory (QFT), physics is formulated from the perspective of a massless observer necessarily traveling at the speed of light. The LF formulation provides an alternative computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Sam Alterman , Peter J. Love

Quantum computing opens up new possibilities for the simulation of many-body nuclear systems. As the number of particles in a many-body system increases, the size of the space if the associated Hamiltonian increases exponentially. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Isaac Hobday , Paul Stevenson , James Benstead

We present the first application of the Basis Light-Front Quantization method to study a simple chiral model of the nucleon-pion system via an ab initio, non-perturbative, Hamiltonian approach. As a test problem, we consider the physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-09 Weijie Du , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Canonical formulation of quantum field theory on the Light Front (LF) is reviewed. The problem of constructing the LF Hamiltonian which gives the theory equivalent to original Lorentz and gauge invariant one is considered. We describe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Franke , Yu. V. Novozhilov , S. A. Paston , E. V. Prokhvatilov

We show in detail how the Jordan-Wigner transformation can be used to simulate any fermionic many-body Hamiltonian on a quantum computer. We develop an algorithm based on appropriate qubit gates that takes a general fermionic Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ovrum , M. Hjorth-Jensen

We develop a workflow to use current quantum computing hardware for solving quantum many-body problems, using the example of the fermionic Hubbard model. Concretely, we study a four-site Hubbard ring that exhibits a transition from a…

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is used to describe the physics of particles in terms of their fundamental constituents. The Light-Front Field Theory~(LFFT), introduced by Paul Dirac in 1949, is an alternative approach to solve some of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-17 Jurandi Leãoo , J. P. B. C. de Melo

The Hamiltonian eigenvalue problem for bound states of a quantum field theory is formulated in terms of Dirac's light-front coordinates and then approximated by the exponential-operator technique of the standard coupled-cluster method. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-27 J. R. Hiller

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate highly entangled quantum systems, offering a solution to challenges facing classical simulation of Quantum Field Theories (QFTs). This paper presents an alternative to traditional methods for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 James Ingoldby , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko , Simon Williams

Canonical formulation of quantum field theory on the Light Front (LF) is reviewed. The problem of constructing the LF Hamiltonian which gives the theory equivalent to original Lorentz and gauge invariant one is considered. We describe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Franke , Yu. V. Novozhilov , S. A. Paston , E. V. Prokhvatilov

Quantum computers have an exponential speed-up advantage over classical computers. One of the most prominent utilities of quantum computers is their ability to study complex quantum systems in various fields using quantum computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Ritu Dhaulakhandi , Bikash K. Behera

We propose the simulation of quantum-optical systems in the ultrastrong-coupling regime using a variational quantum algorithm. More precisely, we introduce a short-depth variational form to prepare the groundstate of the multimode Dicke…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Agustin Di Paolo , Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos , Ivano Tavernelli , Alexandre Blais

We propose a new method for the nonperturbative solution of quantum field theories and illustrate its use in the context of a light-front analog to the Greenberg--Schweber model. The method is based on light-front quantization and uses the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 S. S. Chabysheva , J. R. Hiller

Nuclear lattice effective field theory has become an important framework for quantum many-body calculations in nuclear physics, yet its classical implementation remains increasingly challenging for more general interactions and larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Zhushuo Liu , Jia-ai Shi , Bing-Nan Lu , Xiaosi Xu

We delve into the use of photonic quantum computing to simulate quantum mechanics and extend its application towards quantum field theory. We develop and prove a method that leverages this form of Continuous-Variable Quantum Computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Steven Abel , Michael Spannowsky , Simon Williams

Quantum simulators offer the potential to utilize the quantum nature of a physical system to study another physical system. In contrast to conventional simulation, which experiences an exponential increase in computational complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Xuliang Du , Yang Shen , Zipeng Wu , Bei Zeng , Sen Yang

As quantum computing approaches its first commercial implementations, quantum simulation emerges as a potentially ground-breaking technology for several domains, including Biology and Chemistry. However, taking advantage of quantum…