On Monday, Jan. 13, at 11 a.m., Hall C Winter Collaboration Meeting Featured Speaker Michael N. Bishof will present "Using quantum hardware to explore nuclear physics" in CEBAF Center Auditorium and via Zoom. The lab community is invited to attend or tune in to this event.
Abstract: Strongly interacting many-body quantum systems are computationally inefficient to model due to the exponential scaling of resources required with system size and QCD is no exception. The fermionic sign problem and a non-trivial interplay of dynamics at different energy scales make calculations at finite density and real-time dynamical phenomena intractable for even today’s exa-scale computers. Quantum computers present an opportunity to address classically intractable problems by leveraging state-superposition and entanglement to achieve information densities that scale exponentially with system size. However, achieving a large-scale, fault- tolerant, universal quantum computer remains challenging with today’s state-of-the-art quantum hardware. Quantum simulation offers an alternative approach to gaining insight into classically intractable theories by pairing precise (though imperfect) control of a quantum system with aspects of the system’s natural behavior. In this talk, I will review leading quantum hardware platforms with an emphasis on how they have been applied to calculations in nuclear physics. I will also report on our progress developing and co-designing a quantum simulation platform that is tailored to address non-perturbative phenomena in QCD. Our work builds upon recent advances in the manipulation of neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays.
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