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Main Authors: Khadka, Ratna, Rupak, Gautam
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07986
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author Khadka, Ratna
Rupak, Gautam
author_facet Khadka, Ratna
Rupak, Gautam
contents Scattering of charged particles is ubiquitous in nuclear physics. We calculate the proton-proton $s$-wave phase shift at low energy relevant to solar physics. The phase shift is calculated from the ratio of the regular and irregular solutions to the radial Schrödinger equation on a hard spherical wall boundary for the ground state. The ground state energy is calculated using a hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithm. A theory with short-ranged nuclear interaction in the presence of the long-ranged Coulomb force is used to describe the scattering. The theory is discretized on a spatial lattice for adaptation to the quantum computer in the second quantized language. The phase shifts at low momenta are accurately reproduced.
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spellingShingle Proton-proton scattering on a quantum computer
Khadka, Ratna
Rupak, Gautam
Nuclear Theory
Quantum Physics
Scattering of charged particles is ubiquitous in nuclear physics. We calculate the proton-proton $s$-wave phase shift at low energy relevant to solar physics. The phase shift is calculated from the ratio of the regular and irregular solutions to the radial Schrödinger equation on a hard spherical wall boundary for the ground state. The ground state energy is calculated using a hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithm. A theory with short-ranged nuclear interaction in the presence of the long-ranged Coulomb force is used to describe the scattering. The theory is discretized on a spatial lattice for adaptation to the quantum computer in the second quantized language. The phase shifts at low momenta are accurately reproduced.
title Proton-proton scattering on a quantum computer
topic Nuclear Theory
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07986