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Gauge theories are the most successful theories for describing nature at its fundamental level, but obtaining analytical or numerical solutions often remains a challenge. We propose an experimental quantum simulation scheme to study ground…

Non-abelian gauge theories play an important role in the standard model of particle physics, and unfold a partially unexplored world of exciting physical phenomena. In this letter, we suggest a realization of a non-abelian lattice gauge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 Erez Zohar , J. Ignacio Cirac , Benni Reznik

Quantum simulators have the exciting prospect of giving access to real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories, in particular in regimes that are difficult to compute on classical computers. Future progress towards scalable quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-21 T. V. Zache , F. Hebenstreit , F. Jendrzejewski , M. K. Oberthaler , J. Berges , P. Hauke

We present a quantum simulation strategy for a (1+1)D SU(2) non-abelian lattice gauge theory with dynamical matter, a hardcore-gluon Hamiltonian Yang-Mills, tailored to a six-level trapped-ion qudit quantum processor, as recently…

Recent advances in quantum technologies have enabled quantum simulation of gauge theories -- some of the most fundamental frameworks of nature -- in regimes far from equilibrium, where classical computation is severely limited. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Jad C. Halimeh , Niklas Mueller , Johannes Knolle , Zlatko Papić , Zohreh Davoudi

The properties of strongly-coupled lattice gauge theories at finite density as well as in real time have largely eluded first-principles studies on the lattice. This is due to the failure of importance sampling for systems with a complex…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael Fromm , Owe Philipsen , Michael Spannowsky , Christopher Winterowd

A quantum computer, i.e. utilizing the resources of quantum physics, superposition of states and entanglement, could furnish an exponential gain in computing time. A simulation using such resources is called a quantum simulation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Pablo Arnault

A hallmark of the computational campaign in nuclear and particle physics is the lattice-gauge-theory program. It continues to enable theoretical predictions for a range of phenomena in nature from the underlying Standard Model. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-23 Zohreh Davoudi

In the present work, we propose a scheme for digital formulation of lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermions in 3+1 dimensions. All interactions are obtained as a stroboscopic sequence of two-body interactions with an auxiliary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Julian Bender , Erez Zohar , Alessandro Farace , J. Ignacio Cirac

The quantum simulation of fermionic gauge field theories is one of the anticipated uses of quantum computers in the NISQ era. Recently work has been done to simulate properties of the fermionic Z2 gauge field theory in (1+1) D and the pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Reinis Irmejs , Mari Carmen Banuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

We examine the problem of simulating lattice gauge theories on a universal quantum computer. The basic strategy of our approach is to transcribe lattice gauge theories in the Hamiltonian formulation into a Hamiltonian involving only Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tim Byrnes , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Non-abelian gauge theories underlie our understanding of fundamental forces in nature, and developing tailored quantum hardware and algorithms to simulate them is an outstanding challenge in the rapidly evolving field of quantum simulation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Daniel González-Cuadra , Torsten V. Zache , Jose Carrasco , Barbara Kraus , Peter Zoller

The perspectives of numerical simulations in supersymmetric quantum field theories with vector-like gauge symmetries are discussed. A numerical simulation algorithm for SU(2) gauge theory with gluinos is studied and the first results on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Montvay

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

We show how to implement a Rydberg-atom quantum simulator to study the non-equilibrium dynamics of an Abelian (1+1)-D lattice gauge theory. The implementation locally codifies the degrees of freedom of a $\mathbf{Z}_3$ gauge field, once the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-18 Simone Notarnicola , Mario Collura , Simone Montangero

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

We report on progress in full quantum understanding of thermalization in non-Abelian gauge theories. Specifically, we test the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for (2+1)-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-12-22 Xiaojun Yao , Lukas Ebner , Berndt Müller , Andreas Schäfer , Clemens Seidl

The method of synthetic gauge potentials opens up a new avenue for our understanding and discovering novel quantum states of matter. We investigate the topological quantum phase transition of Fermi gases trapped in a honeycomb lattice in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Fadi Sun , Xiao-Lu Yu , Jinwu Ye , Heng Fan , Wu-Ming Liu

Lattice gauge theories describe fundamental phenomena in nature, but calculating their real-time dynamics on classical computers is notoriously difficult. In a recent publication [Nature 534, 516 (2016)], we proposed and experimentally…

Simulating the real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories, underlying the Standard Model of particle physics, is a notoriously difficult problem where quantum simulators can provide a practical advantage over classical approaches. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Torsten V. Zache , Daniel González-Cuadra , Peter Zoller