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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

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

We propose an implementation of a two-dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory model on a shallow quantum circuit, involving a number of single and two-qubits gates comparable to what can be achieved with present-day and near-future…

Quantum simulations of non-Abelian gauge theories require efficient mappings onto quantum computers and practical state preparation and measurement procedures. A truncation of the Hilbert space of non-Abelian lattice gauge theories with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Anthony N. Ciavarella

The Hamiltonian formulation of lattice gauge theories plays a central role in quantum simulations of gauge theories, and understanding their spectrum and other properties is expected to become crucial in the upcoming years. The relevant…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-20 Thea Budde , Marina Kristć Marinković , Joao C. Pinto Barros

The many-body problem is ubiquitous in the theoretical description of physical phenomena, ranging from the behavior of elementary particles to the physics of electrons in solids. Most of our understanding of many-body systems comes from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-16 M. Dalmonte , S. Montangero

We describe methods to construct digital quantum simulation algorithms for quantum spin systems on a regular lattice with local interactions. In addition to tools such as the Trotter-Suzuki expansion and graph coloring, we also discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Guido Burkard

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…

Simulating the time evolution of quantum field theories given some Hamiltonian $H$ requires developing algorithms for implementing the unitary operator e^{-iHt}. A variety of techniques exist that accomplish this task, with the most common…

We study the Hamiltonian formulation of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory with staggered fermions in a (2+1)-dimensional small lattice system. We construct a gauge-invariant and finite-dimensional Hilbert space for the theory by applying the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhen-Xuan Yang , Hidefumi Matsuda , Xu-Guang Huang , Kouji Kashiwa

We propose an analog quantum simulator for simulating real time dynamics of $(1+1)$-d non-Abelian gauge theory well within the existing capacity of ultracold atom experiments. The scheme calls for the realization of a two-state ultracold…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-09-30 Raka Dasgupta , Indrakshi Raychowdhury

Quantum simulation of the dynamics of a lattice gauge theory demands imposing on-site constraints. Ideally, the dynamics remain confined within the physical Hilbert space, where all the states satisfy those constraints. For non-Abelian…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-04-19 Emil Mathew , Indrakshi Raychowdhury

We show in this paper that a strong and easy connection exists between quantum error correction and Lattice Gauge Theories (LGT) by using the Gauge symmetry to construct an efficient error-correcting code for Abelian LGTs. We identify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 L. Spagnoli , A. Roggero , N. Wiebe

In this article, we review some of the recent developments towards the future goal of quantum computing or quantum simulating lattice QCD. This includes a novel theoretical framework developed for non-Abelian gauge theories that is the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-07-21 Indrakshi Raychowdhury

Lattice field theory, along with its algorithmic and hardware ecosystems, has been at the forefront of computational particle and nuclear physics. It continues to deliver impressive results on the hadronic spectrum, structure, decays, and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-05-21 Zohreh Davoudi

We develop a quantum simulator architecture that is suitable for the simulation of $U(1)$ Abelian gauge theories such as quantum electrodynamics. Our approach relies on the ability to control the hopping of a particle through a barrier by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 A. S. Dehkharghani , E. Rico , N. T. Zinner , A. Negretti

Lattice gauge theories are fundamental to such distinct fields as particle physics, condensed matter, and quantum information science. Their local symmetries enforce the charge conservation observed in the laws of physics. Impressive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Hannes Riechert , Jad C. Halimeh , Valentin Kasper , Landry Bretheau , Erez Zohar , Philipp Hauke , Fred Jendrzejewski

Quantum simulation of non-Abelian gauge theories requires careful handling of gauge redundancy. We address this challenge by presenting universal principles for treating gauge symmetry that apply to any quantum simulation approach,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Masanori Hanada , Shunji Matsuura , Andreas Schafer , Jinzhao Sun

The general problem of finding the ground state energy of lattice Hamiltonians is known to be very hard, even for a quantum computer. We show here that this is the case even for translationally invariant systems. We also show that a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. G. H. Vollbrecht , J. I. Cirac

We propose an orbifold lattice formulation of QCD suitable for quantum simulations. We show explicitly how to encode gauge degrees of freedom into qubits using noncompact variables, and how to write down a simple truncated Hamiltonian in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 Georg Bergner , Masanori Hanada , Enrico Rinaldi , Andreas Schafer