Digital Quantum Simulation of Dynamics in Interacting Fields
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arXiv: 2610.28993v1 · Summary page
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Simulating fields without exhausting the machine
Quantum computers could eventually follow strongly interacting matter through changes that are extremely difficult to calculate classically. A dissertation preprint studies how to make such simulations economical enough to run on limited hardware. One demonstration on an IBM processor follows a heavy quark moving through a one-dimensional lattice of light quarks in a simplified gauge theory, measuring charge distributions and energy loss. This is a model relevant to developing simulation methods, not a full simulation of the strong nuclear force in our three-dimensional world.
Other parts of the work examine compact representations of gauge fields and ways to discard less important contributions to a simulation. In one ground-state preparation experiment, a truncation method reduced circuit depth by about 30 percent, reducing the impact of hardware noise on measured quantities. The common aim is to spend scarce qubits and operations on the physics that matters most, with classical benchmarks used to check the results.
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