Abstract: Quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions (the Schwinger model) exhibits a number of features similar to quantum chromodynamics in 3+1D (SU(3) Yang-Mills gauge theory plus quarks), including confinement and a fermion condensate. A new algorithm to prepare the ground state of such gapped translationally-invariant systems is discussed, Scalable Circuits ADAPT- VQE. This algorithm uses the exponential decay of correlations between distant regions of the ground state, together with ADAPT-VQE, to construct quantum circuits for state preparation that can be scaled to arbitrarily large systems.  We will discuss how using scalable circuits defined on 28 qubits are used to prepare the analogous states on up to 100 qubits, made possible by using a modified decoherence renormalization procedure.