Quantum revolution for hadrons: lessons from low-dimensions

The universe we live in came to be through a succession of very violent, very out-of-equilibrium processes, starting from the big bang. The way we experimentally probe our theories—by accelerating particles and nuclei to very high energies to smash them together—is no less violent. Yet, robust first-principles computations of such real-time, non-equilibrium processes remain elusive. In this talk, I will review the perspectives brought by quantum computations to tackling these problems. I will also discuss how insights from quantum information theory—such as entanglement structure and computational complexity—can help us rethink fundamental aspects of our theories.