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The fast development of quantum technologies over the last decades has offered a glimpse to a future where the quantum properties of multi-particle systems might be more fully understood. So far, quantum computing has seen ample application in areas such as quantum chemistry or condensed matter, but its usage in high-energy physics (HEP) is still in its infancy. In this talk, I will first offer a summary of some recent applications of Quantum Information Science to HEP problems, ranging from ab initio simulations in QFT to computational speed up of jet algorithms. Then, I will discuss in detail a recent proposal to use digital quantum computers to study the evolution of jets in quark gluons plasmas. I will consider the evolution of a single parton, neglecting radiative energy loss and focusing on momentum diffusion. Using the typical approximations found in jet quenching literature, this problem is easily solved and thus it offers a good first step towards studying full jets. Besides the formulation of the problem in terms of operations on the quantum computer, I will also show simulations using IBM's software.
| speaker affiliation | BNL |
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