18 December 2025
Departamento Fisica Teorica
Europe/Madrid timezone

Simulation of fragmentation functions on Quantum Computers

18 Dec 2025, 11:40
30m
Seminario Fisica Teorica 2nd Floor (Departamento Fisica Teorica)

Seminario Fisica Teorica 2nd Floor

Departamento Fisica Teorica

Speaker

Juan José Gálvez Viruet (Univ. Complutense de Madrid)

Description

The real-time phenomenology of QCD remains elusive to traditional computational techniques based on Monte Carlo sampling in Euclidean space. In contrast, on Quantum Computers the time evolution is in principle possible because the basic gates form a universal set of unitary transformations.

In this context, we discuss the calculation of fragmentation functions, key to describe how quarks and gluons transform into observable hadrons. As we move along we introduce a series of strategies to face the problem using quantum computers, all grounded in a codification paradigm where particles and their internal degrees of freedom are the central objects.

Authors

Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Juan José Gálvez Viruet (Univ. Complutense de Madrid) María Gómez-Rocha (Universidad de Granada) Nicolas Alberto Martínez Dr Timothy J. Hobbs (ANL)

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