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Topological gravity is the reduction of Einstein's theory to spacetimes with vanishing curvature, but with global degrees of freedom related to the topology of the universe. We present an exact Hamiltonian lattice theory for topological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Henri Waelbroeck , Jose Antonio Zapata

The question of gauge-covariance in the non-Abelian gauge-field formulation of two space-dimensional systems with spin-orbit coupling relevant to spintronics is investigated. Although, these are generally gauge-fixed models, it is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 M. S. Shikakhwa , S. Turgut , N. K. pak

We present a first real-time study of hadronic scattering in a $(1+1)$-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory with fundamental fermions using tensor-network techniques. Working in the gaugeless Hamiltonian formulation, we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-09 João Barata , Juan Hormaza , Zhong-Bo Kang , Wenyang Qian

The Hamiltonian approach can be used successfully to study the real-time evolution of a non-Abelian lattice gauge theory on the available noisy quantum computers. In this work, results from the real-time evolution of SU(2) pure gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-10-24 Sarmed A Rahman , Randy Lewis , Emanuele Mendicelli , Sarah Powell

The simulation of real-time dynamics in lattice gauge theories is particularly hard for classical computing due to the exponential scaling of the required resources. On the other hand, quantum algorithms can potentially perform the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Simon V. Mathis , Guglielmo Mazzola , Ivano Tavernelli

Far-from-equilibrium dynamics of SU(2) gauge theory with Wilson fermions is studied in 1+1 space-time dimensions using a real-time lattice approach. Lattice improved Hamiltonians are shown to be very efficient in simulating Schwinger pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-05 D. Spitz , J. Berges

Gauge theories describe the fundamental forces in the standard model of particle physics and play an important role in condensed matter physics. The constituents of gauge theories, for example charged matter and electric gauge field, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Julius Mildenberger , Wojciech Mruczkiewicz , Jad C. Halimeh , Zhang Jiang , Philipp Hauke

The simulation of various properties of quantum field theories is rapidly becoming a testing ground for demonstrating the prowess of quantum algorithms. Some examples include the preparation of ground states, as well as the investigation of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-07-31 Sandip Maiti , Debasish Banerjee , Bipasha Chakraborty , Emilie Huffman

We investigate lattice simulations of scalar and nonabelian gauge fields in Minkowski space-time. For SU(2) gauge-theory expectation values of link variables in 3+1 dimensions are constructed by a stochastic process in an additional (5th)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Berges , Sz. Borsanyi , D. Sexty , I. -O. Stamatescu

The Hamiltonian limit of lattice gauge theories can be found by extrapolating the results of anisotropic lattice computations, i.e., computations using lattice actions with different temporal and spatial lattice spacings ($a_t\neq a_s$), to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-20 L. Funcke , C. F. Groß , K. Jansen , S. Kühn , S. Romiti , C. Urbach

Dual superconductivity is believed to be a promising mechanism for quark confinement and has been investigated on a lattice effectively by a particular gauge called the maximal Abelian (MA) gauge. We propose a new formulation of SU(3)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-10-18 A. Shibata , S. Kato , K. -I. Kondo , T. Murakami , T. Shinohara , S. Ito

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

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

Understanding the non-equilibrium dynamics of gauge theories remains a fundamental challenge in high-energy physics. Indeed, most large scale experiments on gauge theories intrinsically rely on very far-from equilibrium dynamics, from…

As a first step towards a quantitative understanding of the SU(4)/Sp(4) composite Higgs model through lattice calculations, we discuss the low energy effective field theory resulting from the SU(4) $\to$ Sp(4) global symmetry breaking…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Ed Bennett , Deog Ki Hong , Jong-Wan Lee , C. -J. David Lin , Biagio Lucini , Maurizio Piai , Davide Vadacchino

We argue that a simple qubit-regularized $\mathrm{SU}(2)$ lattice gauge theory (LGT) on a plaquette chain serves as a pseudo-one-dimensional toy model for Yang-Mills (YM) theory in three spatial dimensions. We map the chain Hamiltonian to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-22 Rui Xian Siew , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Tanmoy Bhattacharya

In this work we extend the notion of universal quantum Hamiltonians to the setting of translationally-invariant systems. We present a construction that allows a two-dimensional spin lattice with nearest-neighbour interactions, open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Stephen Piddock , Johannes Bausch

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…

Emergence of fundamental forces from gauge symmetry is among our most profound insights about the physical universe. In nature, such symmetries remain hidden in the space of internal degrees of freedom of subatomic particles. Here we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-19 Kunal K. Das , Miroslav Gajdacz

We present an algorithm for simulation of $SU(2)$ lattice gauge theory under the MA gauge and first numerical results for the theory without abelian monopoles. The results support the idea that nonperturbative interaction arises between…

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