Simulating hadronic physics on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices using basis light-front quantization
Abstract
The analogy between quantum chemistry and light-front quantum field theory, first noted by Wilson, serves as motivation to develop light-front quantum simulation of quantum field theory. We demonstrate how calculations of hadron structure can be performed on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework. Within BLFQ, relativistic quantum field theories take a form that permits direct application of methods for digital quantum simulation of quantum chemistry, which can be readily scaled into the quantum advantage regime. We calculate the light-front wave functions of pions using an effective light-front Hamiltonian in a basis representation on a current quantum processor. We use the variational quantum eigensolver to find the ground-state energy and the corresponding wave function, which is subsequently used to calculate pion mass radius, decay constant, elastic form factor, and charge radius.
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1786240
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1869191
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019452; FG02-87ER40371; SC0018223; AC02-06CH11357; DGE-1842474
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review A Journal Volume: 103 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; bound states; quantum computation; quantum simulation; hadrons; light mesons; mesons; form factors; techniques; variational approach
Citation Formats
Kreshchuk, Michael, Jia, Shaoyang, Kirby, William M., Goldstein, Gary, Vary, James P., and Love, Peter J. Simulating hadronic physics on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices using basis light-front quantization. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.103.062601.
Kreshchuk, Michael, Jia, Shaoyang, Kirby, William M., Goldstein, Gary, Vary, James P., & Love, Peter J. Simulating hadronic physics on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices using basis light-front quantization. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.062601
Kreshchuk, Michael, Jia, Shaoyang, Kirby, William M., Goldstein, Gary, Vary, James P., and Love, Peter J. Thu .
"Simulating hadronic physics on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices using basis light-front quantization". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.062601.
@article{osti_1786240,
title = {Simulating hadronic physics on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices using basis light-front quantization},
author = {Kreshchuk, Michael and Jia, Shaoyang and Kirby, William M. and Goldstein, Gary and Vary, James P. and Love, Peter J.},
abstractNote = {The analogy between quantum chemistry and light-front quantum field theory, first noted by Wilson, serves as motivation to develop light-front quantum simulation of quantum field theory. We demonstrate how calculations of hadron structure can be performed on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework. Within BLFQ, relativistic quantum field theories take a form that permits direct application of methods for digital quantum simulation of quantum chemistry, which can be readily scaled into the quantum advantage regime. We calculate the light-front wave functions of pions using an effective light-front Hamiltonian in a basis representation on a current quantum processor. We use the variational quantum eigensolver to find the ground-state energy and the corresponding wave function, which is subsequently used to calculate pion mass radius, decay constant, elastic form factor, and charge radius.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.103.062601},
journal = {Physical Review A},
number = 6,
volume = 103,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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