A first step towards quantum simulating jet evolution in a dense medium

Abstract: The fast development of quantum technologies over the last decades has offered a glimpse to a future where the quantum properties of multi-particle systems might be more fully understood. In particular, quantum computing might prove crucial to explore many aspects of high energy physics unaccessible to classical methods. In this talk, we will describe how one can use digital quantum computers to study the evolution of QCD jets in quark gluons plasmas. We construct a quantum circuit to study single particle evolution in a dense QCD medium. Focusing on the jet quenching parameter $\hat q $, we present some early numerical results for a small quantum circuit. Future extensions of this strategy are also addressed.