Toward quantum computations of the  (3) model using qumodes Raghav G. Jha, ,∗ Felix Ringer, , George Siopsis,  and Shane Thompson   Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA  Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA  Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA We express the discrete 1+1-dimensional  ( 3) non-linear sigma model (NLM) in a form well- suited for the continuous variable approach to quantum computing. Within the Schwinger boson formulation, we need two qumodes (quantum-mechanical oscillators) at each lattice site. We envision that it might be possible to reach the scaling regime of this model and observe asymptotic freedom on near-term photonic quantum devices in the coming decade. 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory at Fermilab July 31- August 4, 2023 ∗ Speaker © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). https://pos.sissa.it/ arXiv:2308.06946v1 [hep-lat] 14 Aug 2023