Hersh Kumar

About Me

Hello! My name is Hersh Kumar and I am a first 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. I have previously worked on the use of neural networks as variational ansatze for many-body bosonic and fermionic systems, as well as digital quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories.

Selected Papers

• We propose neural network variational ansatze for bosonic and fermionic many-body quantum systems, and apply our networks to several analytic and non-analytic models:
  • Neural network solutions of bosonic quantum systems in one dimension
  • A Machine Learning Approach to Trapped Many-Fermion Systems
• 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@umd.edu.