https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-023-00188-9
Brief Report
Dihedral lattice gauge theories on a quantum annealer
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Received:
2
December
2022
Accepted:
14
August
2023
Published online:
25
August
2023
We study lattice gauge theory with discrete, non-Abelian gauge groups. We extend the formalism of previous studies on D-Wave’s quantum annealer as a computing platform to finite, simply reducible gauge groups. As an example, we use the dihedral group 
with 
on a two plaquette ladder for which we provide proof-of-principle calculations of the ground-state and employ the known time evolution formalism with Feynman clock states.
Key words: Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory / Quantum computing / Quantum annealing
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