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Hamiltonian simulation is a promising application for quantum computers to achieve a quantum advantage. We present classical algorithms based on tensor network methods to optimize quantum circuits for this task. We show that, compared to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Conor Mc Keever , Michael Lubasch

We study a holographic theory of general spacetimes that does not rely on the existence of asymptotic regions. This theory is to be formulated in a holographic space. When a semiclassical description is applicable, the holographic space is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 Yasunori Nomura , Nico Salzetta , Fabio Sanches , Sean J. Weinberg

Spacetime foam is analyzed within the simplistic model of a set of scalar fields on a flat background. We suggest the formula for the path integral which allows to account for the all possible topologies of spacetime. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-11 A. A. Kirillov , E. P. Savelova

In this work, we propose a generalization of the current most widely used quantum computing hardware metric known as the quantum volume. The quantum volume specifies a family of random test circuits defined such that the logical circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-18 Keith Miller , Charles Broomfield , Ann Cox , Joe Kinast , Brandon Rodenburg

A new principle in quantum gravity, dubbed spacetime complexity, states that gravitational physics emerges from spacetime seeking to optimize the computational cost of its quantum dynamics. Thus far, this principle has been realized at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-29 Rafael Carrasco , Juan F. Pedraza , Andrew Svesko , Zachary Weller-Davies

We formulate quantum mechanics in spacetimes with real-order fractional geometry and more general factorizable measures. In spacetimes where coordinates and momenta span the whole real line, Heisenberg's principle is proven and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-18 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli , Marco Scalisi

In physics, experiments ultimately inform us as to what constitutes a good theoretical model of any physical concept: physical space should be no exception. The best picture of physical space in Newtonian physics is given by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Chuan Sheng Chew , Otto C. W. Kong , Jason Payne

We propose a formulation of the holographic principle, suitable for a background independent quantum theory of cosmology. It is stated as a relationship between the flow of quantum information and the causal structure of a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Fotini Markopoulou , Lee Smolin

An important conjecture within the AdS/CFT correspondence relates holographic spacetime to the quantum computational complexity of the dual quantum field theory. However, the quantitative understanding of this relation is still an open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-02 Johanna Erdmenger , Marius Gerbershagen , Michal P. Heller , Anna-Lena Weigel

The holographic principle and the thermodynamics of de Sitter space suggest that the total number of fundamental degrees of freedom associated with any finite-volume region of space may be finite. The naive picture of a short distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Federico Piazza

A generic spacetime topology contains timelike boundaries. Making use of two such boundaries, we formulate a microscopic holographic dual that captures cosmological spacetime beyond the cosmic horizon patch, including the future wedge. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Batoul Banihashemi , Gauri Batra , Albert Y. T. Law , Eva Silverstein , Gonzalo Torroba

This thesis develops recent work on the so called Volume-Complexity and Action-Complexity conjectures. According to this family of proposals, geometric quantities can be defined in some holographic gravitational theories that can be mapped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Javier Martin-Garcia

We study quantum gravity corrections to the no-boundary wavefunction describing a universe with spatial topology $S^1\times S^2$. It has been suggested that quantum effects become increasingly important when the size of the circle is large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-25 Gustavo J. Turiaci , Chih-Hung Wu

For a field theory with a gravitational dual, following Susskind's proposal we define holographic complexity for a subsystem. The holographic complexity is proportional to the volume of a co-dimension one time slice in the bulk geometry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-18 Mohsen Alishahiha

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize problem-solving through quantum mechanics, but current NISQ devices face limitations in qubit count and error rates, hindering the execution of large-scale quantum circuits. To address these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Waldemir Cambiucci , Regina Melo Silveira , Wilson Vicente Ruggiero

Based upon the holographic principle, Jacobson demonstrated that the spacetime can be viewed as a gas of atoms with a related entropy given by the Bekenstein-Hawking formula. Following this argument, Friedmann equations can be derived by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-13 C. A. S. Silva

Inspired by the universality of computation, we advocate for a principle of spacetime complexity, where gravity arises as a consequence of spacetime optimizing the computational cost of its own quantum dynamics. This principle is explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Juan F. Pedraza , Andrea Russo , Andrew Svesko , Zachary Weller-Davies

In the recent article Phys. Rev. D 100, no. 4, 043533 (2019) a compact phase space generalization of the flat de Sitter cosmology has been proposed. The main advantages of the compactification is that physical quantities are bounded, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Danilo Artigas , Sean Crowe , Jakub Mielczarek

The advent of near-term digital quantum computers could offer us an exciting opportunity to investigate quantum many-body phenomena beyond that of classical computing. To make the best use of the hardware available, it is paramount that we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Luke Causer , Felix Jung , Asimpunya Mitra , Frank Pollmann , Adam Gammon-Smith

The gravity is classically formulated as the geometric curvature of the space-time in general relativity which is completely different from the other well-known physical forces. Since seeking a quantum framework for the gravity is a great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-29 Cao H. Nam