Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We report on an algorithm to compute fragmentation functions from the first principles Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) Hamiltonian quantized in Light-Front Gauge, opening a path for digital quantum computers to calculate these longitudinal jet-structure observables. Simulating the behaviour of such computers on a classical cluster (which is memory-limited to about 30 qubits, given the expansive Hilbert spaces of actual quantum computers), we run a demonstration of a heavy-quark leading parton fragmenting into quarkonium, which we benchmark against NRQCD computations. Future quantum computers, perhaps concurrently running with HL-LHC, would have ample opportunity to extract arbitrary parton-hadron combinations.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204950058
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