Conveners
NT: 1
- Nestor Armesto Perez
NT: 2
- Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Applications of quantum computing to nuclear physics have been studied intensively in recent years. One natural application of quantum computing is the simulation of real-time dynamics of a QCD matter via first principles, which is difficult on a classical computer due to the sign problem. In this talk, I will focus on the viscosity and discuss a general quantum algorithm for computing the...
In small colliding systems and near the QCD critical point, the effects due to hydrodynamic fluctuations can be significant. The effective field theory of fluctuating hydrodynamics has recently been formulated on the closed time path (Schwinger-Keldysh formalism) [1]. Such formulation allows for a systematic treatment of non-linear interaction among energy-momentum densities and hydrodynamics...
We present a framework to simulate the dynamics of hard probes such as heavy quarks or jets in a hot, strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) on a quantum computer [1]. Hard probes in the QGP can be treated as open quantum systems governed in the Markovian limit by the Lindblad equation. However, due to large computational costs, most current phenomenological calculations of hard probes...
One of the main goals of the second phase of the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC is to search for the QCD critical point. In order to study the thermodynamic effects of the presence of a critical point, we constructed a family of equations of state using a model that couples Lattice QCD results to a parameterized critical point from the 3D Ising model universality class. The mapping of the...
Quarkonium suppression in heavy ion collisions has been used as a probe of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) for decades. The intuitive picture of sequential suppression based on the Debye screening of the heavy quark potential is obscured by other in-medium processes such as dissociation and recombination. A natural question to ask is what we can learn about the QGP from measurements of quarkonium...
In this talk we explain how the novel first-order approach proposed by Bemfica, Disconzi, Noronha [1], and Kovtun [2] naturally solved the long-standing problems of causality, stability, and well-posedness of relativistic Navier-Stokes theory. We discuss the differences between this new approach and Israel-Stewart theory, emphasizing how such distinctions could affect our current understanding...
