Simulating Hadronic Physics on NISQ devices using Basis Light-Front Quantization

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The analogy between quantum chemistry and light-front quantum field theory, first noted by Kenneth G.

• Wilson, serves as motivation to develop light-front quantum simulation of quantum field theory.
• We demonstrate how calculations of hadron structure can be performed on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices within the Basis Light-Front Quantization framework.
• We calculate the light-front wave functions of pions using an effective light-front Hamiltonian in a basis representation on a current quantum processor.