Hersh Kumar

About Me

Hello! My name is Hersh Kumar and I am a third year Physics graduate student at the University of Maryland.

My interests mainly lie in quantum computation, nuclear theory, and computational physics. I am currently working on the digital quantum simulation of scattering processes, state preparation algorithms for quantum simulation, and neural network representations of states of quantum field theories.

Selected Papers

• We consider neural network ansatze for the \(O(3)\) nonlinear \(\sigma\)-model in 1+1 dimensions:
  • Neural Wavefunctions in Quantum Field Theory I: Asymptotic Freedom
• We produce an estimate of the entangling gate cost for the simulation of lattice gauge theories on quantum computers:
  • How many quantum gates do gauge theories require?

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me at hekumar<at>umd.edu.