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We present a digital quantum computation of two-hadron scattering in a $Z_2$ lattice gauge theory in 1+1 dimensions. We prepare well-separated single-particle wave packets with desired momentum-space wavefunctions, and simulate their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Zohreh Davoudi , Chung-Chun Hsieh , Saurabh V. Kadam

Universal aspects of thermalization in interacting many-body systems are challenging to derive microscopically, especially in kinetically constrained models, yet their numerical study beyond $(1+1)$D remains notoriously difficult. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Lukas Homeier , Andrea Pizzi , Hongzheng Zhao , Jad C. Halimeh , Fabian Grusdt , Ana Maria Rey

Simulating strongly coupled gauge theories at finite temperature and density is a longstanding challenge in nuclear and high-energy physics that also has fundamental implications for condensed matter physics. In this work, we use minimally…

Recently developed quantum algorithms suggest that quantum computers can solve certain problems and perform certain tasks more efficiently than conventional computers. Among other reasons, this is due to the possibility of creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rolando D. Somma

In this thesis we present new results relevant to two important problems in quantum information science: the development of a theory of entanglement and the exploration of the use of controlled quantum systems to the simulation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-21 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

Quantum simulation is one of the most promising scientific applications of quantum computers. Due to decoherence and noise in current devices, it is however challenging to perform digital quantum simulation in a regime that is intractable…

Gauge theories are fundamental to our understanding of interactions between the elementary constituents of matter as mediated by gauge bosons. However, computing the real-time dynamics in gauge theories is a notorious challenge for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 E. A. Martinez , C. A. Muschik , P. Schindler , D. Nigg , A. Erhard , M. Heyl , P. Hauke , M. Dalmonte , T. Monz , P. Zoller , R. Blatt

Particle physics underpins our understanding of the world at a fundamental level by describing the interplay of matter and forces through gauge theories. Yet, despite their unmatched success, the intrinsic quantum mechanical nature of gauge…

Universal quantum computers are potentially an ideal setting for simulating many-body quantum dynamics that is out of reach for classical digital computers. We use state-of-the-art IBM quantum computers to study paradigmatic examples of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Adam Smith , M. S. Kim , Frank Pollmann , Johannes Knolle

A measurement-based quantum computer could consist of a local-gapped Hamiltonian system, whose thermal states --at sufficiently low temperature-- are universal resources for the computation. Initialization of the computer would correspond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. H. Aguilar , T. Kolb , D. Cavalcanti , L. Aolita , R. Chaves , S. P. Walborn , P. H. Souto Ribeiro

We establish a setting - atoms in optical superlattices with period 2 - in which one can experimentally probe signatures of the process of local relaxation and apparent thermalization in non-equilibrium dynamics without the need of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Cramer , A. Flesch , I. P. McCulloch , U. Schollwoeck , J. Eisert

The approach to thermal equilibrium, or thermalization, in isolated quantum systems is among the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. Recent theoretical studies have revealed that thermalization in isolated quantum systems has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-23 Takashi Mori , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Eriko Kaminishi , Masahito Ueda

In this work we propose to simulate many-body thermodynamics of infinite-size quantum lattice models in one, two, and three dimensions, in terms of few-body models of only O(10) sites, which we coin as quantum entanglement simulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-23 Shi-Ju Ran , Bin Xi , Cheng Peng , Gang Su , Maciej Lewenstein

Emulating thermal observables on a digital quantum computer is essential for quantum simulation of many-body physics. However, thermalization typically requires a large system size due to incorporating a thermal bath, whilst limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 H. Perrin , T. Scoquart , A. I. Pavlov , N. V. Gnezdilov

The emergence of statistical mechanics from quantum dynamics is a central problem in quantum many-body physics. Deriving observables aligned with the prediction of the canonical ensemble for a quantum system relies on the presence of a bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-05 Nikolay V. Gnezdilov , Andrei I. Pavlov

In these proceedings, we review recent advances in applying quantum computing to lattice field theory. Quantum computing offers the prospect to simulate lattice field theories in parameter regimes that are largely inaccessible with the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-10 Lena Funcke , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn

Can high energy physics be simulated by low-energy, non-relativistic, many-body systems, such as ultracold atoms? Such ultracold atomic systems lack the type of symmetries and dynamical properties of high energy physics models: in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-29 Erez Zohar , J. Ignacio Cirac , Benni Reznik

Quantifying multipartite entanglement in quantum many-body systems and hybrid quantum computing architectures is a fundamental yet challenging task. In recent years, thermodynamic quantities such as the maximum extractable work from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Harsh Sharma , Sampriti Saha , A. S. Majumdar , Manik Banik , Himadri Shekhar Dhar

Quantum simulation is a highly ambitious program in cold atom research currently being pursued in laboratories worldwide. The goal is to use cold atoms in optical lattice to simulate models for unsolved strongly correlated systems, so as to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 Qi Zhou , Tin-Lun Ho

Using dual theories embedded into a larger unphysical Hilbert space along entanglement cuts, we study the Entanglement Structure of $\mathbf{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory in $(2+1)$ spacetime dimensions. We demonstrate Li and Haldane's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Niklas Mueller , Torsten V. Zache , Robert Ott