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Quantum parton shower with kinematics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.109.032432Abstract
Parton showers, which can efficiently incorporate quantum interference effects, have been shown to be run efficiently on quantum computers. However, so far these quantum parton showers have not included the full kinematical information required to reconstruct an event, which in classical parton showers requires the use of a veto algorithm. In this work, we show that adding one extra assumption about the discretization of the evolution variable allows one to construct a quantum veto algorithm, which reproduces the full quantum interference in the event, and allows one to include kinematical effects. We finally show that for certain initial states the quantum interference effects generated in this veto algorithm are classically tractable, such that an efficient classical algorithm can be devised.
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