Hamed Moosavian, A.
and Jordan, S.
(2018),
Faster quantum algorithm to simulate Fermionic quantum field theory, Quantum Information & Computation
(Accessed March 21, 2025)
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Faster quantum algorithm to simulate Fermionic quantum field theory
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Author(s)
Ali Hamed Moosavian,
Abstract
In quantum algorithms discovered so far for simulating scattering processes in quantum field theories, state preparation is the slowest step. We present a new algorithm for preparing particle states to use in simulation of Fermionic Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on a quantum computer, which is based on the matrix product state ansatz. We apply this to the massive Gross-Neveu model in one spatial dimension to illustrate the algorithm, but we believe the same algorithm with slight modifications can be used to simulate any one-dimensional massive Fermionic QFT. In the case where the number of particle species is one, our algorithm can prepare particle states using epsilon to the -3.23... gates, which is much faster than previous known results, namely epsilon to the -8 gates. Furthermore, unlike previous methods which were based on adiabatic state preparation, the method given here should be able to simulate quantum phases unconnected to the free theory.Citation
Quantum Information & Computation
Volume
98
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
quantum algorithms, simulation, quantum field theory
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Created June 30, 2018, Updated October 12, 2021