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Quantum Simulation of Dihedral Gauge Theories

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Abstract

In this talk, I describe the simulation of dihedral gauge theories on digital quantum computers. The nonabelian discrete gauge group DN – the dihedral group – serves as an approximation to U(1) × Z2 lattice gauge theory. In order to carry out such a lattice simulation, we detail the construction of efficient quantum circuits to realize basic primitives including the nonabelian Fourier transform over DN, the trace operation, and the group multiplication and inversion operations. For each case the required quantum resources scale linearly or as low-degree polynomials in n = log N. We experimentally benchmark our gates on the Rigetti Aspen-9 quantum processor for the case of D4. The fidelity of all D4 gates was found to exceed 80%.

Publication: arXiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13305

Presenters

  • M. Sohaib Alam

    NASA Ames Research Center

Authors

  • M. Sohaib Alam

    NASA Ames Research Center

  • Stuart Hadfield

    NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL), USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS)

  • Henry S Lamm

    Fermilab

  • Andy C. Y. Li

    Fermilab