LBNL Researcher Leverages 104 Qubits on IBM Heron to Simulate Subatomic Hadronization - Quantum Computing Report

A research collaboration led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has successfully simulated hadronization—the fundamental particle physics process where quarks bind via the strong nuclear force to create composite hadrons like protons and neutrons—on a physical quantum processor. Executed by LBNL research scientist Anthony Ciavarella and published in Physical Review D, the simulation mapped real-time string-breaking dynamics using 104 active qubits on an IBM Heron processor (ibm_torino). The access pipeline was facilitated by the Quantum Computer User Program (QCUP), a federal cloud-access infrastructure framework managed by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Accurately calculating [...]

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