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Visualizing effective potentials and using the IBM-Q to study quantum field theory models in 0+1 dimensions

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This work explores the utility of two novel techniques applied to studying quantum field theory, namely quantum computing and visualizing effective potentials. We studied the ground state properties of the anharmonic oscillator and the Wess-Zumino model using the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm. We performed calculations for three and four qubit systems using IBM’s open source quantum computing simulation software. Using effective potentials, we study a simple dark mat-ter system with a Higgs and dark Higgs like particle interacting through a porthole fermion.
Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (SC-21)
DOE Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1619259
Report Number(s):
BNL-209524-2018-PUCP
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English