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Top-quark physics as a benchmark for quantum computing


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The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

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The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRF-27-0229  

Direction

DRF

Thesis topic details

Category

Corpuscular physics and outer space

Thesis topics

Top-quark physics as a benchmark for quantum computing

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Job description

Top-quark physics at the LHC offers two complementary test beds for quantum computing. The first is quantum information in top-quark pairs: since the top quark decays before hadronisation, a tt¯ pair behaves as a two-qubit system whose spin density matrix can be measured. This is a quantum-native problem with a known ground truth. The thesis will consist of establishing a full tomography pipeline with the ATLAS Run 3 data at 13.6 TeV, using quantum circuits, optimisation methods and a quantum parton shower to validate and study the measurements. The second aspect is linked to four-top production, a rare signal with challenging backgrounds, small training samples and a combinatorial many-jet final state. The project will test quantum optimisation (QUBO-based jet-to-parton assignment) and quantum classifiers for signal discrimination against the best classical methods, to find out where quantum approaches bring a real gain in accuracy, data efficiency or scaling.

University / doctoral school

PHENIICS (PHENIICS)
Paris-Saclay

Thesis topic location

Site

Saclay

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2027

Person to be contacted by the applicant

DELIOT Frédéric frederic.deliot@cern.ch
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA-Saclay
Irfu/DPhP
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX
0169086424

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

DELIOT Frédéric frederic.deliot@cern.ch
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA-Saclay
Irfu/DPhP
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX
0169086424

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