Executive Summary : | The advancement of quantum technology is leading to new research directions in fundamental sciences. The primary goal is to identify problems that may benefit from quantum computation and develop quantum algorithms for these problems to be implemented on universal quantum computers and NISQ-era devices. This is expected to enable the study of real-time dynamics of quarks and gluons, governed by Quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which classical computational techniques face a roadblock due to the sign problem. Simple models of gauge theory have been developed over the past decade, including the Schwinger model and Z2 gauge theories. However, the realization of QCD on quantum devices remains challenging due to mathematical complexity and limitations due to quantum errors in quantum computing hardware. Recent developments have provided a suitable framework for simulating the simplest non-Abelian gauge theory with the gauge group SU(2). The project aims to build the first concrete stepping stone towards simulating the dynamics of QCD, a gauge theory with more complicated gauge symmetries with the gauge group SU(3), on quantum hardware. Successful implementation of this project will lead to several pioneering works towards quantum simulating QCD, well cited by the community, and a set of new and diverse research directions comprising interdisciplinary and collaborative projects between theorists, experimentalists, and quantum information scientists in the near future. |