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Quantum Computational Structure of $SU(N)$ Scattering

Quantum Physics 2025-11-14 v1

Abstract

We study scattering of particles which obey an SU(N)SU(N) global symmetry through the lens of quantum computation and quantum algorithms. We show that for scattering between particles which transform in the fundamental or anti-fundamental representations, i.e. qudits, all 2-2 scattering amplitudes can be constructed from only three quantum gates. Further, for any NN, all 2-2 scattering channels are shown to emerge from the span of a Z2\mathbb{Z}_{2} algebra, suggesting that scattering in this context is fundamentally governed by the action of ``bit flips'' on the internal quantum numbers. We frame these findings in terms of quantum algorithms constructed from Linear Combinations of Unitaries and block encoding.

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@article{arxiv.2511.10550,
  title  = {Quantum Computational Structure of $SU(N)$ Scattering},
  author = {Navin McGinnis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.10550},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures, comments welcome!

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