YOUNGST@RS - The Quantumness of Hard Probes

17 Jan 2022, 15:00 → 21 Jan 2022, 19:00 Europe/Berlin

Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

This workshop aims to discuss and address challenges in hard probes, especially related to quantum mechanical aspects of these systems and how quantum computing could potentially provide tools to perform the needed computations.

Confirmed speakers:

• Xingbo Zhao
• Yacine Mehtar-Tani
• Yukinao Akamatsu
• Nora Brambilla
• Wibe de Jong
• Felix Ringer
• Varum Vaidya
• Henry S. Lamm

Monday, 17 January

15:00 → 15:10 Welcome Greeting by MITP Directors

15:15 → 16:00 Jet quenching overview and quantum applications

Speaker: Yacine Mehtar-Tani

Q-HP2022.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 17:15 Overview of Quantum Computing

Speaker: Wibe de Jong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

YOUNGST@RS-Jan17-2022.pdf

17:15 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 18:00 Discussion I: Discussion: What are the challenges in the study of hard probes? How could quantum technology help?

Discussion: What are the challenges in the study of hard probes? How could quantum technology help?

Tuesday, 18 January

15:15 → 16:00 Quarkonium and Open quantum systems

Speaker: Yukinao Akamatsu

quantumHP.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 17:15 Quarkonium, Effective Field Theories and open quantum systems

Speaker: Nora Brambilla

MITP2022Brambilla.pdf

17:15 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 17:50 Discussion II: Open problems in quarkonium suppression. How do we compute the quantum features of quarkonium?

Wednesday, 19 January

15:15 → 16:00 Bottomonium suppression from numerical solutions to the Lindblad equation at LO and NLO

Speaker: Michael Strickland

strickland.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 17:15 Jet quenching and quantum algorithms

Speaker: Felix Ringer

MITP22_FRinger.pdf

17:15 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 18:15 Light-front approach to hadron structure with quantum computing

Speaker: Wenyang Qian

YoungSTARS_01_19_2022_v1.4.pdf

Thursday, 20 January

15:15 → 16:00 The quantumness of Hadronization

Speaker: Pol Bernard Gossiaux

Gossiaux_The Quantumness of Hadronisation.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 17:15 Jet quenching and open quantum systems

Speaker: Varun Vaidya

Mainz_Varun.pdf

17:15 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 17:50 Discussion III: News perspectives on jet quenching from quantum technology and oqs. How are they useful?

Friday, 21 January

15:15 → 16:00 Quantum simulations. Light-cone quantization

Speaker: Xingbo Zhao

Pair production in tBLFQ_XingboZhao.pptx

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 17:15 Quantum algorithms

Speaker: Henry S. Lamm

Lamm_slides.pdf

17:15 → 17:30 Break

17:30 → 18:15 Round table