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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

We use quantum link models to construct a quantum simulator for U(N) and SU(N) lattice gauge theories. These models replace Wilson's classical link variables by quantum link operators, reducing the link Hilbert space to a finite number of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-21 Michael Bögli

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

Quantum computation represents an emerging framework to solve lattice gauge theories (LGT) with arbitrary gauge groups, a general and long-standing problem in computational physics. While quantum computers may encode LGT using only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Giulia Mazzola , Simon V. Mathis , Guglielmo Mazzola , Ivano Tavernelli

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…

For many quantum systems of interest, the classical computational cost of simulating their time evolution scales exponentially in the system size. At the same time, quantum computers have been shown to allow for simulations of some of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Dorota M. Grabowska , Christopher Kane , Benjamin Nachman , Christian W. Bauer

Real-time evolution of quantum field theories using classical computers requires resources that scale exponentially with the number of lattice sites. Because of a fundamentally different computational strategy, quantum computers can in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-12 Christopher F. Kane , Dorota M. Grabowska , Benjamin Nachman , Christian W. Bauer

Efficient quantum state preparation remains a central challenge in first-principles quantum simulations of dynamics in quantum field theories, where the Hilbert space is intrinsically infinite-dimensional. Here, we introduce a large…

As established in the seminal work by Berry et al.[1], expanding the time evolution operator using truncated Taylor series (up to some order $K$) makes a good candidate for simulating Hamiltonian dynamics. Here, we adapt the method but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Michelle Wynne Sze , David Zsolt Manrique , David Muñoz Ramo , Nathan Fitzpatrick

Quantum computing is greatly advanced in recent years and is expected to transform the computation paradigm in the near future. Quantum circuit simulation plays a key role in the toolchain for the development of quantum hardware and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yuan-Hung Tsai , Jie-Hong R. Jiang , Chiao-Shan Jhang

Lattice gauge theories are fundamental to various fields, including particle physics, condensed matter, and quantum information theory. Recent progress in the control of quantum systems allows for studying Abelian lattice gauge theories in…

With a focus on universal quantum computing for quantum simulation, and through the example of lattice gauge theories, we introduce rather general quantum algorithms that can efficiently simulate certain classes of interactions consisting…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-12-27 Zohreh Davoudi , Alexander F. Shaw , Jesse R. Stryker

Quantum simulations of many-body systems offer novel methods for probing the dynamics of the Standard Model and its constituent gauge theories. Extracting low-energy predictions from such simulations rely on formulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Henry Froland , Dorota M. Grabowska , Zhiyao Li

Quantifying quantum resources for simulating the fundamental forces of Nature is sensitive to the mapping of gauge fields onto finite quantum computational architectures. When locally truncating lattice gauge theories in the irreducible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Zoë Webb-Mack , Natalie Klco

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…

A highly anticipated use of quantum computers is the simulation of complex quantum systems including molecules and other many-body systems. One promising method involves directly applying a linear combination of unitaries (LCU) to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Richard Meister , Simon C. Benjamin , Earl T. Campbell

Gauge theories establish the standard model of particle physics, and lattice gauge theory (LGT) calculations employing Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have been pivotal in our understanding of fundamental interactions. The present…

In this work, we address the problem of a resource-efficient formulation of non-Abelian LGTs by focusing on the difficulty of simulating fermionic degrees of freedom and the Hilbert space redundancy. First, we show a procedure that removes…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-19 Emanuele Gaz , Pavel P. Popov , Guy Pardo , Maciej Lewenstein , Philipp Hauke , Erez Zohar

We extend quantum circuit cutting to heterogeneous registers comprising mixed-dimensional qudits. By decomposing non-local interactions into tensor products of local generalised Gell-Mann matrices, we enable the simulation and execution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Manav Seksaria , Anil Prabhakar

Quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories are anticipated to directly probe the real time dynamics of QCD, but scale unfavorably with the required truncation of the gauge fields. Improved Hamiltonians are derived to correct for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-07 Anthony N. Ciavarella