TPPC weekly seminar (in-person): Chris White - "The magic of top quarks"

Wednesday 22 Jan 2025, 12:30 → 13:45 Europe/London

Title: The magic of top quarks

 

Abstract: In recent years, there has been increasing collaboration between the fields of quantum computing and high energy physics, including using LHC processes such as top (anti-)quark pair production to perform high energy tests of quantum entanglement. In this talk, I will review another interesting property from quantum computing (“magic”), that is needed to make quantum computers with genuine computational advantage over their classical counterparts. How to make and enhance magic in general quantum systems is an open question, such that new insights are always useful. To this end, I will show that the LHC naturally produces magic top quarks, providing a novel playground for further study in this area.