Probing celestial energy and charge correlations through real-time quantum simulations: Insights from the Schwinger model
João Barata (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA); Swagato Mukherjee (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA)
Motivated by recent developments in the application of light-ray operators (LROs) in high energy physics, we propose a new strategy to study correlation functions of LROs through real-time quantum simulations. We argue that quantum simulators provide an ideal laboratory to explore the properties LROs in lower-dimensional quantum field theories. This is exemplified in the -d Schwinger model, employing tensor network methods, focusing on the calculation of energy and charge correlators. Despite some challenges in extracting the necessary correlation functions from the lattice, the methodology used can be extended to real quantum devices.
