15–16 Dec 2020
Centre for Particle Theory, Durham
Europe/London timezone

Towards a Quantum Computing Algorithm for Helicity Amplitudes and Parton Showers

16 Dec 2020, 10:00
30m
Teams (Centre for Particle Theory, Durham)

Teams

Centre for Particle Theory, Durham

IPPP & Dept. Mathematical Sciences Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE

Speaker

Khadeejah Bepari (IPPP, Durham University)

Description

The interpretation of measurements of high-energy particle collisions relies heavily on the performance of full event generators. By far the largest amount of time to predict the kinematics of multi-particle final states is dedicated to the calculation of the hard process and the subsequent parton shower step. With the continuous improvement of quantum devices, dedicated algorithms are needed to exploit the potential quantum computers can provide. In this talk I will discuss general and extendable algorithms for quantum gate computers to facilitate calculations of helicity amplitudes and the parton shower process, as a first step towards a quantum computing algorithm to describe the full collision event at the LHC. This method exploits the equivalence between spinors and qubits and harnesses the quantum computer’s ability to remain in a quantum state throughout the calculations.

Length of talk 15-25 minutes
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Primary authors

Khadeejah Bepari (IPPP, Durham University) Sarah Malik (Imperial College London) Michael Spannowsky (IPPP, Durham University) Simon Williams (Imperial College London)

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