Quantum simulation of the qubit-regularized O(3)-sigma model
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Abstract
Recently, Singh and Chandrasekharan showed that fixed points of the non-linear $O(3)$ sigma model can be reproduced near a quantum phase transition of a spin model with just two qubits per lattice site. In this paper, we demonstrate how to prepare the ground state of this model and measure a dynamical quantity of interest, the $O(3)$ Noether charge, on a quantum computer. In particular, we apply Trotter methods to obtain results for the complexity of adiabatic ground state preparation in both the weak-coupling and quantum-critical regimes and use shadow tomography to measure the dynamics of local observables. We then present and analyze a quantum algorithm based on non-unitary randomized simulation methods that may yield an approach suitable for intermediate-term noisy quantum devices.