Quantum Simulation of Collective Neutrino Oscillations

by Dr Alessandro Roggero (Università di Trento)

Thursday 7 Dec 2023, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Rome

Sala Azzurra (LNS)

In extreme astrophysical environments like supernova explosions, the large neutrino density can lead to collective flavor oscillations driven by neutrino-neutrino interactions. These phenomena 
are important to describe flavor transport and have potentially important consequences for both the explosion mechanism and nucleosynthesis in the ejected material. Even simple models of  neutrino-neutrino interactions require the solution of a challenging many-body problem whose 
exact solution requires exponential resources in general. In this talk I will describe the physics  of collective flavor oscillations and present the recent efforts to simulate the real-time flavor  dynamics of two-flavor neutrinos using current generation quantum computers based on both  superconducting qubits as well as trapped ions.