TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.086
TI  - Digital quantum simulation of bosonic systems and quantum complementarity
PY  - 2025/11/24
UR  - https://www.scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.086
JF  - SciPost Physics Core
JA  - SciPost Phys. Core
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
SP  - 086
A1  - Brasil, Victor P.
AU  - Starke, Diego S.
AU  - Maziero, Jonas
AB  - Digital quantum simulation (DQS) has emerged as a powerful approach to investigate complex quantum systems using digital quantum computers. Such systems, like many-particle bosonic systems and intricate optical experimental setups, pose significant challenges for classical simulation methods. In this paper, we utilize a general formalism for the DQS of bosonic systems, which consists of mapping bosonic operators to Pauli operators using the Gray code, in order to simulate interferometric variants of Afshar's experiment—an intricate optical experiment—on IBM's quantum computers. We investigated experiments analogous to Afshar's double-slit experiment performed by Unruh and Pessoa Júnior, exploring discussions on the apparent violation of Bohr's complementarity principle when considering the entire experimental setup. Based on the aforementioned experiments, we construct a variation of a delayed-choice setup. We also explore another experiment starting with a two-photon initial state. Finally, we analyze these experiments within the framework of an updated quantum complementarity principle, which applies to specific quantum state preparations and remains consistent with the foundational principles of Quantum Mechanics.
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@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.086,
	title={{Digital quantum simulation of bosonic systems and quantum complementarity}},
	author={Victor P. Brasil and Diego S. Starke and Jonas Maziero},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Core},
	volume={8},
	pages={086},
	year={2025},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.086},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.086},
}