Lewis, RandyMendicelli, Emanuele2023-12-082023-12-082023-12-08https://hdl.handle.net/10315/41690Quantum computers have the potential to expand the utility of lattice gauge theory to investigate non-perturbative particle physics phenomena that cannot be accessed using a standard Monte Carlo method due to the sign problem. Thanks to the qubit, quantum computers can store Hilbert space in a more efficient way compared to classical computers. This allows the Hamiltonian approach to be computationally feasible, leading to absolute freedom from the sign-problem. But what the current noisy intermediate scale quantum hardware can achieve is under investigation, and therefore we chose to study the energy spectrum and the time evolution of an SU(2) theory using two kinds of quantum hardware: the D-Wave quantum annealer and the IBM gate-based quantum hardware.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Quantum physicsParticle physicsTheoretical physicsElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2023-12-08Quantum computerQuantum simulationsQuantum annealerGate-based quantum computerIBM quantum computerD-Wave quantum annelaerQubitLattice gauge theorySU(2) pure gauge lattice theorySign-problemReal-time evolution