Three-flavor collective neutrino oscillation simulations on a qubit quantum annealer
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 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 Advantage annealer is shown to be able to reproduce time evolution with the precision of a classical machine for small numbers of neutrinos and to do so without Trotter errors. However, it suffers from poor scaling in qubit-count with the number of neutrinos.
Authors
- Ivan A. Chernyshev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8289-1991)
Institutions
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- University of Washington (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2025-02-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.111.043017
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Neutrino Physics Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.35
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Office of Science
- Nuclear Physics
- Los Alamos National Laboratory