Quantum computing for high-energy physics: State of the art and challenges

A Di Meglio, K Jansen, I Tavernelli, C Alexandrou… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Quantum computers offer an intriguing path for a paradigmatic change of computing in the
natural sciences and beyond, with the potential for achieving a so-called quantum …

Quantum simulation of fundamental particles and forces

CW Bauer, Z Davoudi, N Klco, MJ Savage - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Key static and dynamic properties of matter—from creation in the Big Bang to evolution into
subatomic and astrophysical environments—arise from the underlying fundamental …

Scalable circuits for preparing ground states on digital quantum computers: The Schwinger model vacuum on 100 qubits

RC Farrell, M Illa, AN Ciavarella, MJ Savage - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
The vacuum of the lattice Schwinger model is prepared on up to 100 qubits of IBM's Eagle-
processor quantum computers. A new algorithm to prepare the ground state of a gapped …

Quantum simulations of hadron dynamics in the Schwinger model using 112 qubits

RC Farrell, M Illa, AN Ciavarella, MJ Savage - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Hadron wave packets are prepared and time evolved in the Schwinger model using 112
qubits of IBM's 133-qubit Heron quantum computer ibm_torino. The initialization of the …

High-energy collision of quarks and mesons in the Schwinger model: From tensor networks to circuit QED

R Belyansky, S Whitsitt, N Mueller, A Fahimniya… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
With the aim of studying nonperturbative out-of-equilibrium dynamics of high-energy particle
collisions on quantum simulators, we investigate the scattering dynamics of lattice quantum …

Progress in trapped-ion quantum simulation

M Foss-Feig, G Pagano, AC Potter… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Trapped ions offer long coherence times and high fidelity, programmable quantum
operations, making them a promising platform for quantum simulation of condensed matter …

Quantum simulation of lattice QCD with improved Hamiltonians

AN Ciavarella - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
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 …