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Quantum integration of elementary particle processes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-10 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We apply quantum integration to elementary particle-physics processes. In particular, we look at scattering processes such as e+eqqˉ{\rm e}^+{\rm e}^- \to q \bar q and e+eqqˉW{\rm e}^+{\rm e}^- \to q \bar q' {\rm W}. The corresponding probability distributions can be first appropriately loaded on a quantum computer using either quantum Generative Adversarial Networks or an exact method. The distributions are then integrated sing the method of Quantum Amplitude Estimation which shows a quadratic speed-up with respect to classical techniques. In simulations of noiseless quantum computers, we obtain per-cent accurate results for one- and two-dimensional integration with up to six qubits. This work paves the way towards taking advantage of quantum algorithms for the integration of high-energy processes.

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@article{arxiv.2201.01547,
  title  = {Quantum integration of elementary particle processes},
  author = {Gabriele Agliardi and Michele Grossi and Mathieu Pellen and Enrico Prati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.01547},
  year   = {2022}
}

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19 pages, 6 pdf figures. Matches published version

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