13–16 Jul 2026
Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus
Europe/London timezone

Quantum anomaly for benchmarking quantum computing

13 Jul 2026, 17:10
20m
Maths Lecture Theatre

Maths Lecture Theatre

Building number 4 on the campus map
Contributed Talk Contributed talk

Speaker

Arata Yamamoto (RIKEN)

Description

It is highly nontrivial to verify the correctness of large-scale quantum computations beyond the reach of classical computers. Focusing on the fact that the axial anomaly in gauge theories is exact to all orders in perturbation theory, we propose the axial anomaly as a benchmark for quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories. We simulate anomalous axial-charge production on the Quantinuum quantum computer Reimei and reproduce the anomaly coefficient within statistical uncertainties, even without error mitigation. Our results demonstrate that the axial anomaly can serve as a verification test for current and future quantum computations.

Author

Arata Yamamoto (RIKEN)

Presentation materials