Frontiers in Quantum Simulation for Hight Energy Physics

Far from being static concepts familiar only from elementary quantum mechanics, the notions of quantum entanglement, entropy of entanglement, and decoherence are deeply relevant to processes at work in particle and nuclear systems. This fact, together with recent theoretical strides in formulating models for implementation on quantum devices, has led to an explosion of activity in quantum simulation aimed at particle physics. In addition to developing the underlying technology of quantum simulation, these efforts raise the exciting prospect of uncovering new understandings of structure and dynamics based on the entanglement and decoherence properties of simulated systems. In this talk, I survey the growing ecosystem of quantum simulation for particle physics while highlighting opportunities for NISQ-era computations and the insights into fundamental HEP they stand to provide.