Quantum Simulation of Collective Neutrino Oscillations
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Roggero (Univ.Trento, Italy)

In extreme astrophysical environments like supernova explosions, the large neutrino density can
lead to collective flavor oscillations driven by neutrino-neutrino interactions. These phenomena
are important to describe flavor transport and have potentially important consequences for both
the explosion mechanism and nucleosynthesis in the ejected material. Even simple models of
neutrino-neutrino interactions require the solution of a challenging many-body problem whose
exact solution requires exponential resources in general. In this talk the referent will describe the physics
of collective flavor oscillations and present the recent efforts to simulate the real-time flavor
dynamics of two-flavor neutrinos using current generation quantum computers based on both
superconducting qubits as well as trapped ions.