  The traditional approach for studying the physics of the strong interactions
employs a basic computational construct originally proposed by Wilson in the
1970s. Over the years additional enhancements have been added to this
formulation to improve computational performance and accuracy. This formulation
has been successfully implemented on high performance computing systems and has
yielded accurate calculations for many static properties of the strong
interactions (such as the hadron mass spectrum). With the recent advances in
quantum computing, the question that is now being asked is whether an
equivalent type of gauge invariant formulation of a field theory can be
constructed on a quantum computer to calculate dynamical processes that cannot
be simulated on a traditional supercomputer. Using the Quantum Link Model (QLM)
plus the concept of rishons, this paper will specifically focus on the
challenges implementing a basic gauge link lattice construct using SU(2)
non-Abelian links for illustration. The paper will also discuss the physics
that may potentially be simulated on a quantum computer with this construct and
speculate on the prospects for having quantum computers become a part of the
set of hardware platforms for lattice gauge theory simulations in the future.
