Speaker
Michael Fromm
Description
Using D-Wave's quantum annealer as a computing platform, we study lattice gauge theory with discrete gauge groups. As digitization of continuous gauge groups necessarily involves an approximation of the symmetry, we extend the formalism of previous studies on the annealer to finite, simply reducible gauge groups. As an example we use the dihedral group $D_n$ with $n=3,4$ on a two plaquette ladder for which we provide proof-of-principle calculations of the ground-state and employ the known time evolution formalism with Feynman clock states.
Primary author
Michael Fromm
Co-authors
Owe Philipsen
(Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Christopher Winterowd
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
