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Three-flavor collective neutrino oscillation simulations on a qubit quantum annealer

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.
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  1. University of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); University of Washington; Los Alamos National Laboratory
Neutrinos are unique among elementary particles in that their flavor-compositions oscillate over time. In extreme environments such as core-collapse supernovae, neutron-star mergers, and the early Universe, neutrinos are dense enough that their self-interactions significantly affect, if not dominate, these oscillations. This has implications for several phenomena within these environments, particularly nucleosynthesis. Simulations of these self-interactions have traditionally approximated neutrinos as having two flavors instead of the physical three. In order to develop techniques for characterizing the resulting quantum entanglement, I present the results of simulations of neutrino-neutrino interactions that include all three physical neutrino flavors and were performed on D-Wave Inc.’s Advantage 5000+ qubit quantum annealer. These results are checked against those from exact classical simulations, which are also used to compare the neutrino-neutrino interactions to neutrino-antineutrino and interactions between Majorana neutrinos, which are their own antiparticles. The D-Wave Advantage annealer is shown to be able to reproduce time evolution with the precision of a classical machine for small numbers of neutrinos and to do so without the Trotter errors present in most simulations of dynamics on quantum devices. Furthermore, it suffers from poor scaling in qubit-count with the number of neutrinos.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); University of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0020970
OSTI ID:
2512958
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2565202
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 111; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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