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| author | Spagnoli, Luca Goss, Noah Roggero, Alessandro Rrapaj, Ermal Cervia, Michael J. Patwardhan, Amol V. Naik, Ravi K. Balantekin, A. Baha Younis, Ed Santiago, David I. Siddiqi, Irfan Aldaihan, Sheakha |
| author_facet | Spagnoli, Luca Goss, Noah Roggero, Alessandro Rrapaj, Ermal Cervia, Michael J. Patwardhan, Amol V. Naik, Ravi K. Balantekin, A. Baha Younis, Ed Santiago, David I. Siddiqi, Irfan Aldaihan, Sheakha |
| contents | Collective neutrino flavor oscillations are of primary importance in understanding the dynamic evolution of core-collapse supernovae and subsequent terrestrial detection, but also among the most challenging aspects of numerical simulations. This situation is complicated by the quantum many-body nature of the problem due to neutrino-neutrino interactions which demands a quantum treatment. An additional complication is the presence of three flavors, which often is approximated by the electron flavor and a heavy lepton flavor. In this work, we provide both qubit and qutrit encodings for all three flavors, and develop optimized quantum circuits for the time evolution and analyze the Trotter error. We conclude our study with a hardware experiment of a system of two neutrinos with superconducting hardware: the IBM Torino device for qubits and AQT device for qutrits. We find that error mitigation greatly helps in obtaining a signal consistent with simulations. While hardware results are comparable at this stage, we expect the qutrit setup to be more convenient for large-scale simulations since it does not suffer from probability leakage into nonphsycial qubit space, unlike the qubit setup. |
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| spellingShingle | Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Three Flavors on Qubit and Qutrit Processors Spagnoli, Luca Goss, Noah Roggero, Alessandro Rrapaj, Ermal Cervia, Michael J. Patwardhan, Amol V. Naik, Ravi K. Balantekin, A. Baha Younis, Ed Santiago, David I. Siddiqi, Irfan Aldaihan, Sheakha Quantum Physics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Computational Physics Collective neutrino flavor oscillations are of primary importance in understanding the dynamic evolution of core-collapse supernovae and subsequent terrestrial detection, but also among the most challenging aspects of numerical simulations. This situation is complicated by the quantum many-body nature of the problem due to neutrino-neutrino interactions which demands a quantum treatment. An additional complication is the presence of three flavors, which often is approximated by the electron flavor and a heavy lepton flavor. In this work, we provide both qubit and qutrit encodings for all three flavors, and develop optimized quantum circuits for the time evolution and analyze the Trotter error. We conclude our study with a hardware experiment of a system of two neutrinos with superconducting hardware: the IBM Torino device for qubits and AQT device for qutrits. We find that error mitigation greatly helps in obtaining a signal consistent with simulations. While hardware results are comparable at this stage, we expect the qutrit setup to be more convenient for large-scale simulations since it does not suffer from probability leakage into nonphsycial qubit space, unlike the qubit setup. |
| title | Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Three Flavors on Qubit and Qutrit Processors |
| topic | Quantum Physics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00607 |