Charged particle reconstruction for future high energy colliders with Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Abstract: Usage of cutting-edge artificial intelligence will be the baseline at future high energy colliders such as the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, to cope with the enormously increasing demand of the computing resources. The rapid development of quantum machine learning could bring in further paradigm-shifting improvement to this challenge. One of the two highest CPU-consuming components, the charged particle reconstruction, the so-called track reconstruction, can be considered as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem. The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is one of the most promising algorithms to solve such combinatorial problems and to seek for a quantum advantage in the era of the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum computers. It is found that the QAOA shows promising performance and demonstrated itself as one of the candidates for the track reconstruction using quantum computers.