18–20 May 2026
James Clerk Maxwell Building
Europe/London timezone

Quantum Computing of Lattice Gauge Theories is simpler with Non-Compact Variable!

19 May 2026, 15:30
30m
Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305) (James Clerk Maxwell Building)

Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305)

James Clerk Maxwell Building

School of Physics and Astronomy University of Edinburgh James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD

Speaker

Emanuele Mendicelli (University of Liverpool)

Description

Simulating lattice gauge theories on quantum computers presents significant challenges, motivating the development of novel theoretical frameworks. The orbifold lattice formulation provides a scalable approach for quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories. Quantum circuits for this framework can be explicitly constructed, with computational complexity scaling polynomially with the number of qubits. Monte Carlo simulations (arXiv:2604.15132) demonstrate that the orbifold lattice for SU(2) in (2+1) dimensions recovers the Kogut–Susskind formulation in the large scalar mass limit.

Authors

Emanuele Mendicelli (University of Liverpool) Dr Georg Bergner (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Jena) Dr Masanori Hanada (Queen Mary University of London)

Presentation materials