Opportunities for Nuclear Physics & Quantum Information Science

TL;DR

This whitepaper summarizes a workshop that explored collaborative opportunities between nuclear physics and quantum information science, focusing on quantum technologies, nuclear detectors, and fundamental physics problems.

Contribution

It identifies key research areas and potential collaborations between nuclear physics and quantum information science to advance both fields and benefit society.

Findings

Identified promising research topics like quantum simulation and sensing in nuclear physics.

Highlighted the potential for quantum technologies to enhance nuclear detectors.

Outlined future collaborative efforts between the two disciplines.

Abstract

This whitepaper is an outcome of the workshop Intersections between Nuclear Physics and Quantum Information held at Argonne National Laboratory on 28-30 March 2018 [www.phy.anl.gov/npqi2018/]. The workshop brought together 116 national and international experts in nuclear physics and quantum information science to explore opportunities for the two fields to collaborate on topics of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, and more broadly to U.S. society and industry. The workshop consisted of 22 invited and 10 contributed talks, as well as three panel discussion sessions. Topics discussed included quantum computation, quantum simulation, quantum sensing, nuclear physics detectors, nuclear many-body problem, entanglement at collider energies, and lattice gauge theories.