Quantum Simulation of Conformal Field Theory

verfasst von

Tobias J. Osborne, Alexander Stottmeister

Abstract

Conformal field theory, describing systems with scaling symmetry, plays a crucial role throughout physics. We describe a quantum algorithm to simulate the dynamics of conformal field theories, including the action of local conformal transformations. A full analysis of the approximation errors suggests near-term applicability of our algorithm: promising results for conformal field theories with central charge c=1/2 are obtained already with 128 logical qubits.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Theoretische Physik
QuantumFrontiers

Typ

Preprint

Publikationsdatum

29.09.2021

Publikationsstatus

Elektronisch veröffentlicht (E-Pub)

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2109.14214 (Zugang: Offen)