Physics of spin systems using quantum computers

Quantum hardware has advanced to the point where it is now possible to perform simulations of physical systems and elucidate their ground states and excitation spectra. In this talk, I will overview some of our recent results on this topic, focusing mainly on systems of interacting spins and their properties as seen through a quantum computing lens. I will discuss the Heisenberg and Kitaev models, and how we might adapt concepts familiar from many-body theory to quantum hardware.