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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…

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We review our efforts in investigating gauge theories with fermions in the adjoint representation of the gauge group by means of numerical simulations. These theories have applications in possible extensions of the Standard Model of…

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We study Rokhsar-Kivelson (RK) dimer and spin ice models realizing $U(1)$-lattice gauge theories in a wide class of quasi-one-dimensional settings, which define a setup for the study of few quantum strings (closed electric field lines)…

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Strongly-coupled gauge theories far from equilibrium may exhibit unique features that could illuminate the physics of the early universe and of hadron and ion colliders. Studying real-time phenomena has proven challenging with…

Computing vacuum states of lattice gauge theories (LGTs) containing fermionic degrees of freedom can present significant challenges for classical computation using Monte-Carlo methods. Quantum algorithms may offer a pathway towards more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Lewis W. Anderson , Martin Kiffner , Tom O'Leary , Jason Crain , Dieter Jaksch

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

We develop a hybrid qubit-qumode framework for simulating quantum electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions. In this approach, fermionic matter fields are represented by qubits, while U(1) gauge fields are encoded in continuous-variable bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Victor Ale , Tommaso Rainaldi , Enrique Rico , Felix Ringer , George Siopsis

Variational minimization of tensor network states enables the exploration of low energy states of lattice gauge theories. However, the exact numerical evaluation of high-dimensional tensor network states remains challenging in general. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-12 Patrick Emonts , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac , Erez Zohar

Real-time dynamics of the Schwinger model provide an effective description of quark confinement out of equilibrium, routinely employed to model hadronization processes in particle-physics event generators. Ab-initio simulations of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Alessio Lerose

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

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…

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Lattice simulation of supersymmetric gauge theories is not straightforward. In some cases the lack of manifest supersymmetry just necessitates cumbersome fine-tuning, but in the worse cases the chiral and/or Majorana nature of fermions…

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Lattice gauge theories are a fascinating and rich class of theories relating to the most fundamental models of particle physics, and as experimental control on the quantum level increases there is a growing interest in non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Simon Panyella Pedersen , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

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

Simulating the real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories, underlying the Standard Model of particle physics, is a notoriously difficult problem where quantum simulators can provide a practical advantage over classical approaches. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Torsten V. Zache , Daniel González-Cuadra , Peter Zoller

Quantum link models are extensions of Wilson-type lattice gauge theories which realize exact gauge invariance with finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Quantum link models not only reproduce the standard features of Wilson's lattice gauge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-03 Yi-Ping Huang , Debasish Banerjee , Markus Heyl

Practical quantum computing holds clear promise in addressing problems not generally tractable with classical simulation techniques, and some key physically interesting applications are those of real-time dynamics in strongly coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Emilie Huffman , Miguel García Vera , Debasish Banerjee

Lattice gauge theory has provided a crucial non-perturbative method in studying canonical models in high-energy physics such as quantum chromodynamics. Among other models of lattice gauge theory, the lattice gauge-Higgs model is a quite…

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