Time-resolved digital quantum simulation of cosmological particle creation in a de Sitter-radiation transition
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2605.04099 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 2 May 2026] Title:Time-resolved digital quantum simulation of cosmological particle creation in a de Sitter-radiation transition Authors:Hamzeh Alavirad View a PDF of the paper titled Time-resolved digital quantum simulation of cosmological particle creation in a de Sitter-radiation transition, by Hamzeh Alavirad View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We present a time-resolved digital quantum simulation of cosmological particle creation in a de~Sitter--radiation FLRW transition. Instead of compiling only the final Bogoliubov transformation into a one-shot circuit, we discretize the conformal-time evolution and implement the dynamics as a Trotterized sequence of short-time circuit blocks. This formulation gives access not only to the late-time particle number, but also to the build-up of fixed-basis pair occupation during the non-adiabatic transition. Using a four-qubit single-excitation encoding for a momentum pair $(+\mathbf{k},-\mathbf{k})$, we compare matrix-Trotter evolution, noiseless statevector simulation, finite-shot Qiskit Aer simulation, and a shallow $N=1$ IBM hardware implementation. The simulator results are consistent with the analytic sudden-transition benchmark $n_k=1/[4(k\eta_e)^4]$ in the controlled single-excitation regime. The IBM experiment demonstrates execution of the shallow circuit block, but exhibits a residual hardware error of order $10^{-2}$, indicating that quantitative hardware reconstruction of the particle spectrum remains beyond current NISQ performance. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) Cite as: arXiv:2605.04099 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2605.04099v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.04099 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Hamzeh Alavirad [view email] [v1] Sat, 2 May 2026 07:21:10 UTC (564 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Time-resolved digital quantum simulation of cosmological particle creation in a de Sitter-radiation transition, by Hamzeh AlaviradView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-05 Change to browse by: hep-th References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)