Mini-Symposium: Quantum Information and Nuclear Physics

Presentations

• Hamiltonian Simulations of QCD and Other Gauge Theories

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Dorota Grabowska

    • University of Washington, Seattle

  Authors

  • Dorota Grabowska

    • University of Washington, Seattle

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• Proton-proton scattering on a quantum computer

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Ratna Khadka

    • Mississippi State University

  Authors

  • Ratna Khadka

    • Mississippi State University

  • Gautam Rupak

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• Contextuality in the No-Core Shell Model

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Hagar Abualazm

    • Tufts University

  Authors

  • Hagar Abualazm

    • Tufts University

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• Truncation uncertainties for accurate quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2508.00061

  Presenters

  • Anthony Ciavarella

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  Authors

  • Anthony Ciavarella

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  • Jad Halimeh

    • Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

  • Siddharth Hariprakash

    • UC Berkeley, LBNL, BlueQubit Inc.

  • Christian Bauer

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Detecting and preparing spacelike vacuum entanglement in scalar quantum fields

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: 1. B. Gao and N. Klco, Partial-transpose-guided entanglement classes and minimum noise filtering in many-body Gaussian quantum systems, Phys. Rev. A 109, 062413 (2024).
  
  2. B. Gao and N. Klco, Detecting spacelike vacuum entanglement at all distances and promoting negativity to a necessary and sufficient entanglement measure in many-body regimes, Phys. Rev. A 112, 012430 (2025).
  
  3. B. Gao and N. Klco, Finite Gaussian assistance protocols and a conic metric for extremizing spacelike vacuum entanglement, arXiv:2506.23968 [quant-ph].

  Presenters

  • Boyu Gao

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • Boyu Gao

    • Duke University

  • Natalie Klco

    • Duke University

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• The thermal nature and the quantum magic of confining strings

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23919 + to appear (w/ Savage, Zemlevskiy)

  Presenters

  • Sebastian Grieninger

    • University of Washington

  Authors

  • Sebastian Grieninger

    • University of Washington

  • Dmitri Kharzeev

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  • Eliana Marroquin

  • Martin Savage

    • University of Washington

  • Nikita Zemlevskiy

    • University of Washington

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