Exponentially improved quantum simulation of scalar QFT

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26226v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:05:32 GMT
• Title: Exponentially improved quantum simulation of scalar QFT
• Abstract summary: We revisit digitization in the occupation basis, which is typically hindered by unfavorable circuit depth scaling.<n>We show that this method substantially reduces circuit depth and CNOT gate counts for time evolution.
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• Abstract: Quantum simulations of scalar quantum field theories (QFT) provide important benchmarks for demonstrating quantum advantage. We revisit digitization in the occupation basis, which is typically hindered by unfavorable circuit depth scaling. We present an approach that achieves exponential reductions in circuit depth and significantly mitigates Trotter errors by diagonalizing field operators prior to their decomposition into Pauli strings. Focusing on a scalar QFT in 2+1 dimensions, we show that this method substantially reduces circuit depth and CNOT gate counts for time evolution. Using the Lorentzian energy-energy correlator as a benchmark observable, we find parameter regimes in which occupation-basis digitization converges more rapidly with respect to local truncation than the amplitude-basis approach of Jordan, Lee, and Preskill. These results provide both algorithmic advances and phenomenological benchmarks for studies of light-ray observables on near-term quantum devices.

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