Improved Kogut-Susskind Hamiltonians for quantum simulations of non-Abelian Yang-Mills gauge theories are developed for honeycomb (2+1D) and hyper-honeycomb (3+1D) spatial tessellations. This is motivated by the desire to identify lattices for quantum simulations that involve only 3-link vertices among the gauge field group spaces in order to reduce the complexity in applications of the plaquette operator. For the honeycomb lattice, we derive a classically O(b²)-improved Hamiltonian, with b being the lattice spacing. Tadpole improvement via the mean-field value of the plaquette operator is used to provide the corresponding quantum improvements. We have identified the (non-chiral) hyper-honeycomb as a candidate spatial tessellation for 3+1D quantum simulations of gauge theories, and determined the associated O(b)-improved Hamiltonian.

This work was supported, in part, by the Quantum Science Center (QSC) which is a National Quantum Information Science Research Center of the U.S. Department of Energy (Marc), and by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, InQubator for Quantum Simulation (IQuS) under Award Number DOE (NP) Award DE-SC0020970 via the program on Quantum Horizons: QIS Research and Innovation for Nuclear Science (Martin, Xiaojun).