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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

We calculate the properties of a one-dimensional $Z_2$ lattice gauge theory in different Gauss law sectors, corresponding to different configurations of static charges set by the orientations of the gauge spins. Importantly, in quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-20 Vaibhav Sharma , Erich J Mueller

A recent work considered quantum simulation of Quantum Electrodynamics on a lattice in the Coulomb gauge with gauge degrees of freedom represented in the occupation basis in momentum space. Here we consider the more efficient representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Xiaojun Yao

We construct lattice gauge theories in which the elements of the link matrices are represented by non-commuting operators acting in a Hilbert space. These quantum link models are related to ordinary lattice gauge theories in the same way as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Chandrasekharan , U. -J. Wiese

In this paper, we analyze the circuit complexity for preparing ground states of quantum many-body systems. In particular, how this complexity grows as the ground state approaches a quantum phase transition. We discuss different definitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Sebastián Roca-Jerat , Teresa Sancho-Lorente , Juan Román-Roche , David Zueco

Continuous-variable bosonic systems stand as prominent candidates for implementing quantum computational tasks. While various necessary criteria have been established to assess their resourcefulness, sufficient conditions have remained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Cameron Calcluth , Nicolas Reichel , Alessandro Ferraro , Giulia Ferrini

Inspired by holographic Wilsonian renormalization, we consider coarse graining a quantum system divided between short distance and long distance degrees of freedom, coupled via the Hamiltonian. Observations using purely long distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Cesar Agon , Vijay Balasubramanian , Skyler Kasko , Albion Lawrence

Hamiltonian formulation of lattice gauge theories (LGTs) is the most natural framework for the purpose of quantum simulation, an area of research that is growing with advances in quantum-computing algorithms and hardware. It, therefore,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-13 Zohreh Davoudi , Indrakshi Raychowdhury , Andrew Shaw

Superconducting circuit quantisation conventionally starts from classical Euler-Lagrange circuit equations-of-motion. Invoking the correspondence principle yields a canonically quantised circuit description of circuit dynamics over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Yun-Chih Liao , Ben J. Powell , Thomas M. Stace

We propose a method to construct quantum theory of matter fields in a topology changing universe. Analytic continuation of the semiclassical gravity of a Lorentzian geometry leads to a non-unitary Schr\"{o}dinger equation in a Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sang Pyo Kim

Compressible models extend the domain of simulable systems in quantum computers, but little is known about their precise limits of applicability. Using the theory of compressible matchgate circuits, we identify a class of quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Guillermo Blázquez-Cruz , Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers

It is shown that gauge theories are most naturally studied via a polar decomposition of the field variable. Gauge transformations may be viewed as those that leave the density invariant but change the phase variable by additive amounts. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Girish S. Setlur

We explore the effectiveness of variational quantum circuits in simulating the ground states of quantum many-body Hamiltonians. We show that generic high-depth circuits, performing a sequence of layer unitaries of the same form, can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Joonho Kim , Jaedeok Kim , Dario Rosa

The implementation of the dynamics in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is still an open problem. Here, we discuss a tentative dynamics for the simplest class of graphs in LQG: Two vertices linked with an arbitrary number of edges. We use the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Enrique F. Borja , Jacobo Díaz-Polo , Iñaki Garay , Etera R. Livine

A new kind of gauge theory is introduced, where the minimal coupling and corresponding covariant derivatives are defined in the space of functions pertaining to the functional Schroedinger picture of a given field theory. While, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hans-Thomas Elze

A manifestly Lorentz-covariant formulation of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is given in terms of finite-dimensional representations of the Lorentz group. The formulation accounts for discrete symmetries, such as parity and time-reversal, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Francesco Cianfrani

The problem of gauge invariance in an ultraviolet complete quantum field theory (QFT) with nonlocal interactions is investigated. For local fields that couple through a nonlocal interaction, it is demonstrated that the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-02 J. W. Moffat

We present a numerical study about the confining regime of compact U(1) lattice gauge theory in 4D. To address the problem, we exploit the duality properties of the theory. The main features of this method are presented, and its possible…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Panero

In this paper we analyze the ground state phase diagram of a class of fermionic Hamiltonians by looking at the fidelity of ground states corresponding to slightly different Hamiltonian parameters. The Hamiltonians under investigation can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Cozzini , P. Giorda , P. Zanardi

The concept of \emph{complexity} has become pivotal in multiple disciplines, including quantum information, where it serves as an alternative metric for gauging the chaotic evolution of a quantum state. This paper focuses on \emph{Krylov…