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In the last few years, several new techniques for quantum many-body physics based on quantum information methods and concepts have been developed and applied. In one such approach, quantum simulation, an inaccessible physical model is mapped to another quantum device which can be manipulated and measured in the lab, hence serving as its simulator. In another one, by considering the special entanglement properties of physically relevant states, one can significantly reduce the computational complexity of many-body models and study them on a classical computer.
Starting in the field of condensed matter physics, these tools have now entered the particle physics toolbox as well. I will introduce the ideas behind them and how they could help, and discuss quantum simulation and tensor network techniques for lattice gauge theories.