Quantum simulation of in-medium QCD jets: momentum broadening, gluon production, and entropy growth

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01792v1
• Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 16:02:20 GMT
• Title: Quantum simulation of in-medium QCD jets: momentum broadening, gluon production, and entropy growth
• Authors: Jo\~ao Barata, Xiaojian Du, Meijian Li, Wenyang Qian, Carlos A. Salgado
• Abstract summary: We study the real-time evolution of QCD jets inside a medium. Based on the light-front Hamiltonian formalism, we construct a digital quantum circuit that tracks the evolution of a multi-particle jet probe.
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• Abstract: Jets provide one of the primary probes of the quark-gluon plasma produced in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and the cold nuclear matter explored in deep inelastic scattering experiments. However, despite important developments in the last years, a description of the real-time evolution of QCD jets inside a medium is still far from being complete. In our previous work, we have explored quantum technologies as a promising alternative theoretical laboratory to simulate jet evolution in QCD matter, to overcome inherent technical difficulties in present calculations. Here, we extend our previous investigation from the single particle $|q\rangle$ to the $|q\rangle+|qg\rangle$ Fock space, taking into account gluon production. Based on the light-front Hamiltonian formalism, we construct a digital quantum circuit that tracks the evolution of a multi-particle jet probe in the presence of a medium described as a stochastic color field. Studying the momentum broadening of the jet state, we observe sizable sub-eikonal effects by comparing to eikonal estimates. We also study the medium-induced modifications to the gluon emission probability, which exhibit small corrections compared to the vacuum splitting function. In addition, we study the time evolution of the von-Neumann entropy associated with the quark component; we find that the exponential of the entropy grows linearly in time for the bare quark but super-linearly when taking into account gluon emission.

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