Benchmarking of Quantum Magic in 3-flavor Collective Neutrino Oscillations
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Abstract
In core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, neutrinos are sufficiently dense that neutral-current interactions between neutrinos are a significant factor in neutrino flavor dynamics. These interactions and the entanglement they impart make the dynamics of the resulting collective neutrino oscillations (CNOs), which may influence astrophysical processes such as nucleosynthesis, challenging to compute on classical devices. Thus, quantum computing may be the most promising path towards simulating CNOs at scale. In addition to entanglement, a system must have high magic for quantum advantage to be possible in its simulation. We benchmark the evolution of magic of 3-flavor CNOs and find that if the initial state is purely compsed of νe, the final values of magic per neutrino decrease as the number of neutrinos decreases, while the same is not true for systems with neutrinos in all three flavors.
*This work was supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, InQubator for Quantum Simulation (IQuS) under Award Number DOE (NP) Award DE-SC0020970 via the program on Quantum Horizons: QIS Research and Innovation for Nuclear Science, and by the Department of Physics and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington (Ivan and Martin). This work was also supported, in part, by Universität Bielefeld, and by ERC-885281-KILONOVA Advanced Grant (Caroline).
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Publication: I. Chernyshev, C. E. P. Robin, and M. J. Savage, Quantum Magic and Computational Complexity in the Neutrino Sector (unpublished).
Presenters
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Ivan A Chernyshev
- University of Washington