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The influence of modified gravity on the bulk properties of neutron stars can be constrained through integration of the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff (TOV) equations, provided the input equation of state (EoS) is derived solely from microscopic physics. This becomes particularly challenging in the intermediate to high baryon-density regime, where neither nuclear nor chiral effective field theories are reliable, perturbative QCD breaks down, and the sign problem prohibits Monte Carlo methods.
Quantum computing offers promising new avenues to address these difficulties — if scalable architectures become available — but they face intrinsic complexities such us the trade-off between a dense encoding of the relevant degrees of freedom and an efficient decomposition of the resulting unitary transformations. In this talk, we present a novel register-based encoding of canonically quantized QCD in the time-axial / Weyl gauge. We detail the implementation of key Hamiltonian terms and demonstrate small-scale simulations that provide a preliminary assessment of the computational time and memory resources required.
