  Quantum simulation of quantum field theories offers a new way to investigate
properties of the fundamental constituents of matter. We develop quantum
simulation algorithms based on the light-front formulation of relativistic
field theories. The process of quantizing the system in light-cone coordinates
will be explained for a Hamiltonian formulation, which becomes block diagonal,
each block approximating the Fock space with a certain harmonic resolution K.
We analyze a QCD theory in 2+1D. We compute the analogue of parton distribution
functions, the generalized parton distribution functions for mesonic composite
particles, like hadrons, in these theories. The dependence of such analyses on
the scaling of the number of qubits is compared with other schemes and
conventional computations. There is a notable advantage to the light-front
formulation.
