Three-flavor Collective Neutrino Oscillations on D-Wave's {\tt Advantage} Quantum Annealer
Abstract
In extreme environments such as core-collapse supernovae, neutron-star mergers, and the early Universe, neutrinos are dense enough that their self-interactions significantly affect, if not dominate, their flavor dynamics. In order to develop techniques for characterizing the resulting quantum entanglement, I present the results of simulations of Dirac neutrino-neutrino interactions that include all three physical neutrino flavors and were performed on D-Wave Inc.'s {\tt Advantage} 5000+ qubit quantum annealer. These results are checked against those from exact classical simulations, which are also used to compare the Dirac neutrino-neutrino interactions to neutrino-antineutrino and Majorana neutrino-neutrino interactions. The D-Wave {\tt Advantage} annealer is shown to be able to reproduce time evolution with the precision of a classical machine for small number of neutrinos and to do so without Trotter errors. However, it suffers from poor scaling in qubit-count with the number of neutrinos. Two approaches to improving the qubit-scaling are discussed, but only one of the two shows promise.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2024
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2405.20436
- Bibcode:
- 2024arXiv240520436C
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 24 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables