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

Supernova neutrinos on a quantum computer

15 Jul 2026, 16:00
30m
Maths Lecture Theatre

Maths Lecture Theatre

Building number 4 on the campus map
Invited Talk Talks

Speaker

Joachim Kopp (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Description

In ultradense neutrino gases, which exist for instance in supernovae and in the early Universe, the flavour states of different neutrinos might become entangled. This would render classical simulations of these systems, which are already extremely challenging as is, unfeasible. In this talk, we discuss the conditions under which quantum entanglement may become phenomenologically relevant, and we present new algorithms for simulating entangled neutrino gases on quantum computers.

Author

Joachim Kopp (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Presentation materials