Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Tune in to hear from our inaugural speaker of the relaunched Qiskit Seminar Series. Martin Savage will discuss his work on simulating strongly interacting systems with quantum computers. See you there!
Advances in quantum computing are accelerating efforts to simulate properties and dynamics of matter that are not accessible to classical computing, analytic techniques, experiment in laboratories or observation. Colliding high-energy particles has repeatedly revealed new symmetries, new particles and new interactions, to establish the standard model of particle physics with precision, and to provide compelling evidence of its incompleteness.
Exotic states of matter created in the early universe and in extreme astrophysical environments are probed by reconstructing the high-multiplicity debris produced in collisions of nuclei. Unravelling the nature of the matter created in the collisions is, in part, enabled by signatures of energy-loss, and the evolution from quarks and gluons to hadrons during the collisions. While complete 3+1D simulations of such events is beyond the current capabilities of computing, first simulations of energy-loss and hadronization of particles moving through matter are being performed in 1+1D Abelian and non-Abelian lattice gauge theories using IBMs quantum computers.
The value simulating these low-complexity systems is to identify viable methods, algorithms, and to uncover new sources of systematic errors. I will discuss what we have learned from 1+1D simulations, relevant aspects of quantum complexity, and evolution of such simulations to larger systems and higher dimensions. Much of this work was done in collaboration with the Quantum Science Center (QSC).
Papers:
Steps Toward Quantum Simulations of Hadronization and Energy-Loss in Dense Matter: arxiv.org/abs/2405.06620
A Framework for Quantum Simulations of Energy-Loss and Hadronization in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories: SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory in 1+1D: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05210
Tune in to hear from our inaugural speaker of the relaunched Qiskit Seminar Series. Martin Savage will discuss his work on simulating strongly interacting systems with quantum computers. See you there!
Advances in quantum computing are accelerating efforts to simulate properties and dynamics of matter that are not accessible to classical computing, analytic techniques, experiment in laboratories or observation. Colliding high-energy particles has repeatedly revealed new symmetries, new particles and new interactions, to establish the standard model of particle physics with precision, and to provide compelling evidence of its incompleteness.
Exotic states of matter created in the early universe and in extreme astrophysical environments are probed by reconstructing the high-multiplicity debris produced in collisions of nuclei. Unravelling the nature of the matter created in the collisions is, in part, enabled by signatures of energy-loss, and the evolution from quarks and gluons to hadrons during the collisions. While complete 3+1D simulations of such events is beyond the current capabilities of computing, first simulations of energy-loss and hadronization of particles moving through matter are being performed in 1+1D Abelian and non-Abelian lattice gauge theories using IBMs quantum computers.
The value simulating these low-complexity systems is to identify viable methods, algorithms, and to uncover new sources of systematic errors. I will discuss what we have learned from 1+1D simulations, relevant aspects of quantum complexity, and evolution of such simulations to larger systems and higher dimensions. Much of this work was done in collaboration with the Quantum Science Center (QSC).
Papers:
Steps Toward Quantum Simulations of Hadronization and Energy-Loss in Dense Matter: arxiv.org/abs/2405.06620
A Framework for Quantum Simulations of Energy-Loss and Hadronization in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories: SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory in 1+1D: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05210
