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Description
The fast development of quantum technologies over the last decades has offered a glimpse to a future where the quantum properties of multi-particle systems might be fully understood. In the context of jet quenching, quantum computers might allow for a better understanding of medium induced jet modifications which are hard to extract using traditional approaches. In this talk, I will focus on the leading order effect, momentum broadening. I will show how to formulate the real time evolution of a single particle jet in a dense medium in terms of quantum gate operations in a small set of qubits. The main focus will be put on the extraction of the jet quenching parameter $\hat q$. Numerical results for this coefficient are shown, being extracted from the quantum simulations performed using the IBM qiskit framework. Finally, I will explain how this approach can be extended to multi particle production and to jet evolution at early times in heavy ion collisions
