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Lattice QCD calculations have been conducted using large-scale classical computers based on the Lagrangian formalism of field theory for the past 40 years. On the other hand, the advent of quantum computers has brought increasing attention…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-09 Etsuko Itou

We provide a universal framework for the quantum simulation of SU(N) Yang--Mills theories on fault-tolerant digital quantum computers adopting the orbifold lattice formulation. As warm-up examples, we also consider simple models, including…

A new algorithm for simulating compact U(1) lattice gauge theory in three dimensions is presented which is based on global changes in the configuration space. We show that this algorithm provides an effective way to extract partition…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Alet , B. Lucini , M. Vettorazzo

Quantum computers offer the potential to simulate nuclear processes that are classically intractable. With the goal of understanding the necessary quantum resources to realize this potential, we employ state-of-the-art…

We propose a digital quantum simulator of non-Abelian pure-gauge models with a superconducting circuit setup. Within the framework of quantum link models, we build a minimal instance of a pure $SU(2)$ gauge theory, using triangular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 A. Mezzacapo , E. Rico , C. Sabín , I. L. Egusquiza , L. Lamata , E. Solano

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

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

Using a Fermi-Bose mixture of ultra-cold atoms in an optical lattice, we construct a quantum simulator for a U(1) gauge theory coupled to fermionic matter. The construction is based on quantum links which realize continuous gauge symmetry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Banerjee , M. Dalmonte , M. Müller , E. Rico , P. Stebler , U. -J. Wiese , P. Zoller

The prospect of quantum simulating lattice gauge theories opens exciting possibilities for understanding fundamental forms of matter. Here, we show that trapped ions represent a promising platform in this context when simultaneously…

The modern description of elementary particles, as formulated in the Standard Model of particle physics, is built on gauge theories. Gauge theories implement fundamental laws of physics by local symmetry constraints. For example, in quantum…

To gain deeper insight into the dynamics of complex quantum systems we need a quantum leap in computer simulations. We can not translate quantum behaviour arising with superposition states or entanglement efficiently into the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-28 Axel Friedenauer , Hector Schmitz , Jan Tibor Glückert , Diego Porras , Tobias Schätz

Simulating non-equilibrium phenomena in strongly-interacting quantum many-body systems, including thermalization, is a promising application of near-term and future quantum computation. By performing experiments on a digital quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Niklas Mueller , Tianyi Wang , Or Katz , Zohreh Davoudi , Marko Cetina

We propose a general scheme for a digital construction of lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermions. In this method, the four-body interactions arising in models with $2+1$ dimensions and higher, are obtained stroboscopically, through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Erez Zohar , Alessandro Farace , Benni Reznik , J. Ignacio Cirac

In this paper, we investigate a digitised SU$(2)$ lattice gauge theory in the Hamiltonian formalism. We use partitionings to digitise the gauge degrees of freedom and show how to define a penalty term based on finite element methods to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-03-06 Timo Jakobs , Marco Garofalo , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Johann Ostmeyer , Simone Romiti , Carsten Urbach

Lattice Gauge Theories form a very successful framework for studying nonperturbative gauge field physics, in particular in Quantum Chromodynamics. Recently, their quantum simulation on atomic and solid-state platforms has been discussed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Erez Zohar

We show how a quantum computer may efficiently simulate a disordered Hamiltonian, by incorporating a pseudo-random number generator directly into the time evolution circuit. This technique is applied to quantum simulation of few-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-25 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo F. Bedaque , Scott Lawrence

Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

Quantum technologies offer the prospect to efficiently simulate sign-problem afflicted regimes in lattice field theory, such as the presence of topological terms, chemical potentials, and out-of-equilibrium dynamics. In this work, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-20 Angus Kan , Lena Funcke , Stefan Kühn , Luca Dellantonio , Jinglei Zhang , Jan F. Haase , Christine A. Muschik , Karl Jansen

We reformulate the Hamiltonian approach to lattice gauge theories such that, at the classical level, the gauge group does not act canonically, but instead as a Poisson-Lie group. At the quantum level, it then gets promoted to a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 G. Bimonte , A. Stern , P. Vitale

We present a comprehensive discussion on lattice techniques for the simulation of scalar and gauge field dynamics in an expanding universe. After reviewing the continuum formulation of scalar and gauge field interactions in Minkowski and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Daniel G. Figueroa , Adrien Florio , Francisco Torrenti , Wessel Valkenburg