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Quantum simulations of the dynamics of QCD have been limited by the complexities of mapping the continuous gauge fields onto quantum computers. By parametrizing the gauge invariant Hilbert space in terms of plaquette degrees of freedom, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-28 Anthony N. Ciavarella , Christian W. Bauer

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

Quantum simulations of QCD require digitization of the infinite-dimensional gluon field. Schemes for doing this with the minimum amount of qubits are desirable. We present a practical digitization for $SU(3)$ gauge theories via its discrete…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-29 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo F. Bedaque , Ruairí Brett , Henry Lamm

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

We present a minimal implementation of SU($N$) pure Yang-Mills theory in $3+1$ dimensions for digital quantum simulation, designed to enable quantum advantage. Building on the orbifold lattice simulation protocol with logarithmic scaling in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-17 Georg Bergner , Masanori Hanada , Emanuele Mendicelli

In the present work, we propose a scheme for digital formulation of lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermions in 3+1 dimensions. All interactions are obtained as a stroboscopic sequence of two-body interactions with an auxiliary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Julian Bender , Erez Zohar , Alessandro Farace , J. Ignacio Cirac

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

Quantum simulators have the exciting prospect of giving access to real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories, in particular in regimes that are difficult to compute on classical computers. Future progress towards scalable quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-21 T. V. Zache , F. Hebenstreit , F. Jendrzejewski , M. K. Oberthaler , J. Berges , P. Hauke

A quantum simulator of U(1) lattice gauge theories can be implemented with superconducting circuits. This allows the investigation of confined and deconfined phases in quantum link models, and of valence bond solid and spin liquid phases in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 D. Marcos , P. Widmer , E. Rico , M. Hafezi , P. Rabl , U. -J. Wiese , P. Zoller

The quantum simulation of fermionic gauge field theories is one of the anticipated uses of quantum computers in the NISQ era. Recently work has been done to simulate properties of the fermionic Z2 gauge field theory in (1+1) D and the pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Reinis Irmejs , Mari Carmen Banuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

While universal quantum computers remain under development, analog quantum simulators offer a powerful alternative for understanding complex systems in condensed matter, chemistry, and high-energy physics. One compelling application is the…

Matrix models are an important class of systems in string theory and theoretical physics, with applications to random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and black holes. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo simulations and gauge/gravity duality have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Gavin S. Hartnett , Haoran Liao , Enrico Rinaldi

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

Lattice gauge theories, which originated from particle physics in the context of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), provide an important intellectual stimulus to further develop quantum information technologies. While one long-term goal is the…

A Hamiltonian lattice formulation of lattice gauge theories opens the possibility for quantum simulations of the non-perturbative dynamics of QCD. By parametrizing the gauge invariant Hilbert space in terms of plaquette degrees of freedom,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-11-27 Anthony N. Ciavarella , Christian W. Bauer

Simulating real-time dynamics of gauge theories represents a paradigmatic use case to test the hardware capabilities of a quantum computer, since it can involve non-trivial input states preparation, discretized time evolution, long-distance…

The properties of strongly-coupled lattice gauge theories at finite density as well as in real time have largely eluded first-principles studies on the lattice. This is due to the failure of importance sampling for systems with a complex…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael Fromm , Owe Philipsen , Michael Spannowsky , Christopher Winterowd

The study of real-time evolution of lattice quantum field theories using classical computers is known to scale exponentially with the number of lattice sites. Due to a fundamentally different computational strategy, quantum computers hold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Christopher Kane , Dorota M. Grabowska , Benjamin Nachman , Christian W. Bauer

We connect explicitly the classical $O(2)$ model in 1+1 dimensions, a model sharing important features with $U(1)$ lattice gauge theory, to physical models potentially implementable on optical lattices and evolving at physical time. Using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-02-11 Haiyuan Zou , Yuzhi Liu , Chen-Yen Lai , J. Unmuth-Yockey , Li-Ping Yang , A. Bazavov , Z. Y. Xie , T. Xiang , S. Chandrasekharan , S. -W. Tsai , Y. Meurice

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