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Nuclear and particle physics

Simulating nuclear and particle physics appears an inherently quantum problem. There have been proposals to use quantum computers to accelerate simulations of quantum field theories, nuclear structure, neutrino physics, and quantum gravity [1]. In this section, we will focus on the simulation of quantum field theories and nuclear structure, as these have received the most attention in the literature to date and are the closest to having end-to-end fault-tolerant resource estimates available. The building blocks of quantum algorithms for data analysis in high energy physics [2] can be found in the sections on variational quantum algorithms and machine learning. For existing reviews of quantum computing for nuclear and particle physics, we direct the reader to [3, 4, 1, 5].

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  2. Andrea Delgado, Kathleen E Hamilton, Jean-Roch Vlimant, Duarte Magano, Yasser Omar, Pedrame Bargassa, Anthony Francis, Alessio Gianelle, Lorenzo Sestini, Donatella Lucchesi, and others. Quantum computing for data analysis in high-energy physics. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08805, 2022.

  3. John Preskill. Simulating quantum field theory with a quantum computer. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10085, 2019. doi:10.22323/1.334.0024.

  4. Mari Carmen Bañuls, Rainer Blatt, Jacopo Catani, Alessio Celi, Juan Ignacio Cirac, Marcello Dalmonte, Leonardo Fallani, Karl Jansen, Maciej Lewenstein, Simone Montangero, Christine A. Muschik, Benni Reznik, Enrique Rico, Luca Tagliacozzo, Karel Van Acoleyen, Frank Verstraete, Uwe-Jens Wiese, Matthew Wingate, Jakub Zakrzewski, and Peter Zoller. Simulating lattice gauge theories within quantum technologies. The European Physical Journal D, 74(8):165, 8 2020. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00003. URL: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2020-100571-8, doi:10.1140/epjd/e2020-100571-8.

  5. Lena Funcke, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen, and Stefan Kühn. Review on quantum computing for lattice field theory. In Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, volume 430, 228. 2023. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00467. doi:10.22323/1.430.0228.