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most citedPreparation of the SU(3) Lattice Yang-Mills Vacuum with Variational Quantum Methods

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17 papers

quant-ph2026

Scattering amplitudes from quantum hardware a la RESOs

Raul A Briceno, Ivan M Burbano, Anthony N Ciavarella +3

We report the first quantum-hardware implementation of Real-time Estimators for Scattering Observables (RESOs). The physical model is a one-dimensional lattice theory of non-relati…

hep-lat2026

Quantum Simulations of Two-Dimensional Non-Abelian Adjoint String Breaking

Anthony N. Ciavarella, Roland de Putter, Ed Younis +1

Quantum computers offer the potential to directly probe the dynamics of strongly coupled quantum field theories. As a step towards reaching this potential, local Krylov-based trunc…

hep-lat2026

Large Nc Truncations for SU(Nc) Lattice Yang-Mills Theory with Fermions

Neel S. Modi, Anthony N. Ciavarella, Jad C. Halimeh +1

Quantum simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) require a representation of gauge fields and fermions on the finitely many degrees of freedom available on a quantum computer. W…

quant-ph2025

Truncation uncertainties for accurate quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories

Anthony N. Ciavarella, Siddharth Hariprakash, Jad C. Halimeh +1

The encoding of lattice gauge theories onto quantum computers requires a discretization of the gauge field's Hilbert space on each link, which presents errors with respect to the K…

hep-lat2025

Real-time Estimators for Scattering Observables: A full account of finite volume errors for quantum simulation

Ivan M. Burbano, Marco A. Carrillo, Rana Urek +2

The real-time correlators of quantum field theories can be directly probed through new approaches to simulation, such as quantum computing and tensor networks. This provides a new…

hep-lat2025

Efficient Truncations of SU() Lattice Gauge Theory for Quantum Simulation

Anthony N. Ciavarella, I. M. Burbano, Christian W. Bauer

Quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories offer the potential to directly study the non-perturbative dynamics of quantum chromodynamics, but naive analyses suggest that they re…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Generic Hilbert Space Fragmentation in Kogut--Susskind Lattice Gauge Theories

Anthony N. Ciavarella, Christian W. Bauer, Jad C. Halimeh

At the heart of quantum many-body physics lies the understanding of mechanisms that avoid quantum thermalization in an isolated system quenched far from equilibrium. A prominent ex…

hep-lat2024

Quantum Simulation of Large N Lattice Gauge Theories

Anthony N. Ciavarella, Christian W. Bauer

A Hamiltonian lattice formulation of lattice gauge theories opens the possibility for quantum simulations of the non-perturbative dynamics of QCD. By parametrizing the gauge invari…

quant-ph2024

String Breaking in the Heavy Quark Limit with Scalable Circuits

Anthony N. Ciavarella

Quantum simulations of non-Abelian gauge theories require efficient mappings onto quantum computers and practical state preparation and measurement procedures. A truncation of the…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Quantum Simulation of SU(3) Lattice Yang Mills Theory at Leading Order in Large N

Anthony N. Ciavarella, Christian W. Bauer

Quantum simulations of the dynamics of QCD have been limited by the complexities of mapping the continuous gauge fields onto quantum computers. By parametrizing the gauge invariant…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits

Roland C. Farrell, Marc Illa, Anthony N. Ciavarella +1

Hadron wavepackets are prepared and time evolved in the Schwinger model using 112 qubits of IBM's 133-qubit Heron quantum computer ibm_torino. The initialization of the hadron wave…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Scalable Circuits for Preparing Ground States on Digital Quantum Computers: The Schwinger Model Vacuum on 100 Qubits

Roland C. Farrell, Marc Illa, Anthony N. Ciavarella +1

The vacuum of the lattice Schwinger model is prepared on up to 100 qubits of IBM's Eagle-processor quantum computers. A new algorithm to prepare the ground state of a gapped transl…

hep-lat2023★ 3 cited

Quantum Simulation of Lattice QCD with Improved Hamiltonians

Anthony N. Ciavarella

Quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories are anticipated to directly probe the real time dynamics of QCD, but scale unfavorably with the required truncation of the gauge field…

quant-ph2022★ 14 cited

Preparation for Quantum Simulation of the 1+1D O(3) Non-linear σ-Model using Cold Atoms

Anthony N. Ciavarella, Stephan Caspar, Hersh Singh +1

The 1+1D O(3) non-linear σ-model is a model system for future quantum lattice simulations of other asymptotically-free theories, such as non-Abelian gauge theories. We find that ut…

quant-ph2022★ 16 cited

State Preparation in the Heisenberg Model through Adiabatic Spiraling

Anthony N. Ciavarella, Stephan Caspar, Marc Illa +1

An adiabatic state preparation technique, called the adiabatic spiral, is proposed for the Heisenberg model. This technique is suitable for implementation on a number of quantum si…

quant-ph2022

Simulating Heisenberg Interactions in the Ising Model with Strong Drive Fields

Anthony N. Ciavarella, Stephan Caspar, Hersh Singh +2

The time-evolution of an Ising model with large driving fields over discrete time intervals is shown to be reproduced by an effective XXZ-Heisenberg model at leading order in the i…

quant-ph2021★ 76 cited

Preparation of the SU(3) Lattice Yang-Mills Vacuum with Variational Quantum Methods

Anthony N Ciavarella, Ivan A Chernyshev

Studying QCD and other gauge theories on quantum hardware requires the preparation of physically interesting states. The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) provides a way of per…