Speaker
Description
Gauge theories are the cornerstone of our description of nature. At the theoretical level, many of their fascinating aspects - from real time dynamics, to regimes of finite density of baryon matter - represent some of the most notable and fascinating challenges for computational methods. Over the last decade, this has stimulated a broad effort to understand how to quantum simulate gauge theories with synthetic quantum matter.
In this talk, I will present an overview of the field. After an introduction to quantum computing and simulation, I will discuss why quantum simulating gauge theories is fundamentally different from traditional statistical physics models, explaining conceptual as well as fundamental aspects. I will then review some early proposals on how to use quantum computers and simulations to realize gauge theory dynamics, and contrast them with more recent approaches, including the experimental state of the art. Finally, I will discuss some pressing open problems in this direction, with a specific focus on the relation between gauge theories and fault-tolerant quantum computing.
| Parallel Session (for talks only) | Plenary talk |
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