Nuclear Physicists Create Scalable Quantum Circuits to Simulate Fundamental Physics
Department of Energy, Office of ScienceSimulations of equations from the Standard Model of particle physics are too difficult for classical supercomputers. In this research, scientists for the first time created scalable quantum circuits to prepare a simulation of the starting state for a particle accelerator collision to test aspects of strong interactions. The researchers first determined these circuits for small systems using classical computers, then scaled the quantum circuits to a large system on more than 100 qubits of IBM’s quantum computers.