Probing the post-collision state in quantum simulations of scattering
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Abstract
High-energy particle collisions can convert energy into matter through the inelastic production of new particles. Quantum simulations of these processes promise to shed light onto the nonequilibrium dynamics of collisions and the formation of subsequent many-particle states. Building on the recent first simulations of inelastic scattering on a quantum computer, this work develops methods to investigate the post-collision state. These techniques are used to identify newly produced particles and quantify their properties, providing quantitative evidence of inelastic effects. Developments necessary to simulate highly inelastic scattering in higher dimensional realistic systems are discussed.
*This work was supported in part by the 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. This work was also supported, in part, through the Department of Physics and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington. I also acknowledge the use of IBM Quantum Credits for this work.
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Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03111 (in review)
Detecting particles in scattering simulations on quantum computers (in preparation)
Presenters
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Nikita A Zemlevskiy
- University of Washington