PIRSA:20110005

Quantum simulators for nuclear and particle physics: progress, challenges, and future

Davoudi, Z. (2020). Quantum simulators for nuclear and particle physics: progress, challenges, and future. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/20110005

Davoudi, Zohreh. Quantum simulators for nuclear and particle physics: progress, challenges, and future. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 25, 2020, https://pirsa.org/20110005 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:20110005,
            doi = {10.48660/20110005},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/20110005},
            author = {Davoudi, Zohreh},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {Quantum simulators for nuclear and particle physics: progress, challenges, and future},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2020},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:20110005 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Zohreh Davoudi

University of Maryland, College Park

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A vibrant program has formed in recent years in various scientific disciplines to take advantage of near-term and future quantum-simulation and quantum-computing hardware to study complex quantum many-body systems, building upon the vision of Richard Feynman for quantum simulation. Such activities have recently started in nuclear and particle physics, hoping to bring new and powerful experimental and computational tools to eventually address a range of challenging problems in strongly interacting quantum field theories and nuclear many-body systems. In this talk, I review a number of important developments, including proposals for simulating strongly interacting field theories with the ultimate goal of studying strong dynamics of quarks and gluons, and of nucleons. Some of the requirements for hardware technologies that are expected to enable both the analog simulations and the digital quantum computations of these problems will be enumerated, and an experiment-theory co-development program will be motivated with an emphasis on trapped-ion platforms.