From String Dynamics to Event Generation with Quantum Simulation
Organizers: Christian Bauer (LBNL), Anthony Ciavarella (LBNL), Jad Halimeh (LMU, Germany), Yannick Meurice (University of Iowa), Stephen Mrenna (FNAL)
State‑of‑the‑art quantum platforms have started to enable simulations for nuclear and particle physics but with limitations in evolution time, system size, dimensionality, and choice of gauge group. This workshop brings together experts in nuclear physics, high-energy physics, and quantum information to build synergies between these communities. A focus will be on how to go beyond current limitations to simulate scattering and string breaking processes, and how to integrate quantum simulations of hadronization into commonly used event generators. This will forge a concrete path from quantum simulation to next-generation collider phenomenology.
Talks
Week-1
Hourly Schedule
Monday, 13 April
- 9.30am - 9.40am
- Welcome to IQuS
- Martin Savage
- 9.40am - 10.00am
- Workshop Vision
- The Organizers - Christian Bauer, Anthony Ciavarella, Jad Halimeh, Yannick Meurice and Stephen Mrenna
- 10.00am - 10.30am
- I Can Do it With A Broken String
- Hank Lamm
- 10.30am - 10.40am
- Discussion
- 10.40am - 11.10am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.00pm - 3.30pm
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
Tuesday, 14 April
- 9.30am - 10.00am
- Hadronization Models in Event Generation
- Stephen Mrenna
- 10.00am - 10.10am
- Discussions
- 10.10am - 10.30am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.00pm - 3.30pm
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.30pm - 4.00pm
- Simulating hadronization on a quantum computer
- Marc Illa
Wednesday, 15 April
- 9.30am - 10.00am
- Analog quantum simulations of LGTs and rethinking anomalous thermalization
- Marina Marinkovic
- 10.00am - 10.10am
- Discussions
- 10.10am - 10.30am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 2.00pm - 2.30pm
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 2.30pm - 3.00pm
- String melting in 2+1D SU(3) system
- Xiaojun Yao
- 3.00pm - 3.10pm
- Discussions
Thursday, 16 April
- 9.30am - 10.00am
- QuPyth: from desirables to achievables
- Yannick Meurice
- 10.00am - 10.10am
- Discussions
- 10.10am - 10.30am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 10.30am - 11.00am
- On initial state preparation, scattering, and dynamical string breaking in 1+1D lattice gauge theories
- Saurabh Kadam
- 11.00am - 11.10am
- Discussions
- 3.00pm - 3.30pm
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.30pm - 4.00pm
- Rump Session
Friday, 17 April
- 9.30am - 10.00am
- Quantum Complexity in QCD and Nuclear Physics
- Martin Savage
- 10.00am - 10.10am
- Discussions
- 10.10am - 10.30am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.00pm - 3.30pm
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.30pm - 4.00pm
- Quantum resources in collective neutrino oscilations; Fermionic scattering state preparation in NISQ era
- Michael Hite
Monday, 20 April
- 9.30am - 9.40am
- Welcome to IQuS (abridged)
- Martin Savage
- 9.40am - 10.00am
- Workshop Vision (updated)
- The Organizers - Christian Bauer, Anthony Ciavarella, Jad Halimeh, Yannick Meurice and Stephen Mrenna
- 10.00am - 10.30am
- Some new general purpose quantum algorithms with applications in lattice field theory
- Prasanth Shyamsundar
- 10.30am - 10.40am
- Discussions
- 10.40am - 11.00am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.00pm - 3.30pm
- Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.30pm - 4.00pm
- String breaking in SU(2) lattice gauge theories
- Anthony Ciavarella
Tuesday, 21 April
- 9.30am - 10.00am
- Real-time string dynamics in a 2+1D SU(2) lattice gauge theory
- Giovanni Cataldi
- 10.00am - 10.10am
- Discussions
- 10.10am - 10.30am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.00pm - 3.30pm
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.30pm - 4.00pm
- Glueballs and string breaking in 2+1D lattice gauge theories on a trapped-ion quantum computer
- Jad Halimeh
Wednesday, 22 April
- 9.30am - 10.00am
- Scalable preparation of thermal states on digital quantum computers
- Roland Farrell
- 10.00am - 10.10am
- Discussions
- 10.10am - 10.30am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 10.30am - 11.00am
- Prospects and challanges for sparse Fock presentation
- Yutaro Ilyama
- 11.00am - 11.10am
- Discussions
- 3.00pm - 3.30pm
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.30pm - 4.00pm
- The quantum complexity of string breaking in the Schwinger model
- Sebastian Grieninger
Thursday, 23 April
- 9.30am - 10.00am
- Field entanglement beyond entropy
- Natalie Klco
- 10.00am - 10.10am
- Discussions
- 10.10am - 10.30am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 10.30am - 11.00am
- Engineering Hamiltonians: a computational perspective
- Vincent Pascuzzi
- 11.00am - 11.10am
- Discussions
- 2.00pm - 3.00pm
- White paper discussion
- Organizers
- 3.00pm - 3.30pm
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.30pm - 4.00pm
- Rump Session
Friday, 24 April
- 9.30am - 10.00am
- Quantum Algorithms for Parton Showers.
- Christian Bauer
- 10.00am - 10.10am
- Discussions
- 10.10am - 10.30am
- Coffee and Discussions
- 5th Floor
- 3.00pm - 3.30pm
- Coffee and Discussions
Date
- Apr 13 - 24 2026
- Expired!
Time
- All Day
Location
- University of Washington PHYS/ASTR Building, Seattle, WA 98195
Other Locations
- Pacific and 15th
Organizer
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Christian Bauer, Anthony Ciavarella, Jad Halimeh, Yannick Meurice, Stephen Mrenna
