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We present a novel method to combine QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) with parton shower (PS) simulations, that can be applied to the production of heavy systems in hadronic collisions, such as colour singlets or a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-11 Pier Francesco Monni , Paolo Nason , Emanuele Re , Marius Wiesemann , Giulia Zanderighi

Quantum chemistry simulations that accurately predict the properties of materials are among the most highly anticipated applications of quantum computing. It is widely believed that simulations running on quantum computers will allow for…

We consider idealized parton shower event generators that treat parton spin and color exactly, leaving aside the choice of practical approximations for spin and color. We investigate how the structure of such a parton shower generator is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-21 Zoltan Nagy , Davison E. Soper

High-energy particle collisions can convert energy into matter through the inelastic production of new particles. Quantum computers are an ideal platform for simulating the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of collisions and the formation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Roland C. Farrell , Nikita A. Zemlevskiy , Marc Illa , John Preskill

Recent developments in QCD phenomenology have spurred on several improved approaches to Monte Carlo event generation, relative to the post--LEP state of the art. In this brief review, the emphasis is placed on approaches for 1) consistently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Z. Skands

Parton showers are crucial components of high-energy physics calculations. Improving their modelling of QCD is an active research area since shower approximations are stumbling blocks for precision event generators. Naively, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-13 Leif Gellersen , Stefan Prestel , Michael Spannowsky

Quantum simulation represents the most promising quantum application to demonstrate quantum advantage on near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers, yet available quantum simulation algorithms are prone to errors and thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Shin Sun , Li-Chai Shih , Yuan-Chung Cheng

We present a new event generator for the simulation of both neutral- and charged-current deep inelastic scattering (DIS) at next-to-leading order in QCD matched to parton showers using the POWHEG method. Our implementation builds on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Andrea Banfi , Silvia Ferrario Ravasio , Barbara Jäger , Alexander Karlberg , Felix Reichenbach , Giulia Zanderighi

The accuracy of parton-shower simulations is often a limiting factor in the interpretation of data from high-energy colliders. We present the first formulation of parton showers with accuracy one order beyond state-of-the-art…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-14 Silvia Ferrario Ravasio , Keith Hamilton , Alexander Karlberg , Gavin P. Salam , Ludovic Scyboz , Gregory Soyez

We present a new formalism for parton shower simulation of QCD jets, which incorporates the following features: invariance under boosts along jet axes, improved treatment of heavy quark fragmentation, angular-ordered evolution with soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Stefan Gieseke , Philip Stephens , Bryan Webber

The computational cost of exact methods for quantum simulation using classical computers grows exponentially with system size. As a consequence, these techniques can only be applied to small systems. By contrast, we demonstrate that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 Ivan Kassal , Stephen P. Jordan , Peter J. Love , Masoud Mohseni , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Quantum computers are expected to give major speed-ups for the simulation of quantum systems. In these conference proceedings, we discuss quantum algorithms for the simulation of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) processes. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Mathieu Pellen

Quantum computers have the potential to simulate chemical systems beyond the capability of classical computers. Recent developments in hybrid quantum-classical approaches enable the determinations of the ground or low energy states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Chee-Kong Lee , Jonathan Wei Zhong Lau , Liang Shi , Leong Chuan Kwek

Quantum computational fluid dynamics (QCFD) offers a promising alternative to classical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) by leveraging quantum algorithms for higher efficiency. This paper introduces a comprehensive QCFD method, including…

Theoretical predictions for high-energy collision processes at particle colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), rely on calculations in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), which are often computationally challenging. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Mathieu Pellen

Major obstacles remain to the implementation of macroscopic quantum computing: hardware problems of noise, decoherence, and scaling; software problems of error correction; and, most important, algorithm construction. Finding truly quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Nathan Thompson , James Steck , Elizabeth Behrman

We have developed a Monte Carlo event generator for non-resonant diphoton ($\gamma\gamma$) production at hadron collisions in the framework of GR@PPA, which consistently includes additional one-jet production. The jet-matching method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Shigeru Odaka , Yoshimasa Kurihara

Quantum computing has become a promising computing approach because of its capability to solve certain problems, exponentially faster than classical computers. A $n$-qubit quantum system is capable of providing $2^{n}$ computational space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Saikat Basu , Amit Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti , Susmita Sur-Kolay

Numerical simulation of strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SFQED) processes is an essential step towards current and future high-intensity laser experiments. The complexity of SFQED phenomena and their stochastic nature make them…

We apply quantum integration to elementary particle-physics processes. In particular, we look at scattering processes such as ${\rm e}^+{\rm e}^- \to q \bar q$ and ${\rm e}^+{\rm e}^- \to q \bar q' {\rm W}$. The corresponding probability…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-10 Gabriele Agliardi , Michele Grossi , Mathieu Pellen , Enrico Prati