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Preparation of the SU(3) lattice Yang-Mills vacuum with variational quantum methods

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.
 [1];  [2]
  1. University of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); OSTI
  2. University of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Studying QCD and other gauge theories on quantum hardware requires the preparation of physically interesting states. The variational quantum eigensolver provides a way of performing vacuum state preparation on quantum hardware. Here in this work, variational quantum eigensolver is applied to pure SU(3) lattice Yang-Mills on a single plaquette and one dimensional plaquette chains. Bayesian optimization and gradient descent were investigated for performing the classical optimization. Ansatz states for plaquette chains are constructed in a scalable manner from smaller systems using domain decomposition and a stitching procedure analogous to the density matrix renormalization group. Small examples are performed on IBM’s superconducting Manila processor.
Research Organization:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0020970
OSTI ID:
1980058
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1866642
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 105; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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