Scalable circuits for preparing ground states on digital quantum computers: The Schwinger model vacuum on 100 qubits

RC Farrell, M Illa, AN Ciavarella, MJ Savage - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
The vacuum of the lattice Schwinger model is prepared on up to 100 qubits of IBM's Eagle-
processor quantum computers. A new algorithm to prepare the ground state of a gapped …

Observation of microscopic confinement dynamics by a tunable topological θ-angle

WY Zhang, Y Liu, Y Cheng, MG He, HY Wang… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The topological θ-angle is central to several gauge theories in condensed-matter and high-
energy physics. For example, it is responsible for the strong CP problem in quantum …

Quantum simulations of hadron dynamics in the Schwinger model using 112 qubits

RC Farrell, M Illa, AN Ciavarella, MJ Savage - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Hadron wave packets are prepared and time evolved in the Schwinger model using 112
qubits of IBM's 133-qubit Heron quantum computer ibm_torino. The initialization of the …

Cold-atom particle collider

GX Su, JJ Osborne, JC Halimeh - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
A major objective of the strong ongoing drive to realize quantum simulators of gauge
theories is achieving the capability to probe collider-relevant physics on them. In this regard …

Probing false vacuum decay on a cold-atom gauge-theory quantum simulator

ZH Zhu, Y Liu, G Lagnese, FM Surace… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the context of quantum electrodynamics, the decay of false vacuum leads to the
production of electron-positron pair, a phenomenon known as the Schwinger effect. In …

Hilbert space fragmentation at the origin of disorder-free localization in the lattice Schwinger model

J Jeyaretnam, T Bhore, JJ Osborne, JC Halimeh… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Lattice gauge theories, the discretized cousins of continuum gauge theories, have become
an important platform for the exploration of non-equilibrium phenomena beyond their …

Mass-Assisted Local Deconfinement in a Confined Lattice Gauge Theory

JY Desaules, T Iadecola, JC Halimeh - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11645, 2024 - arxiv.org
Confinement is a prominent phenomenon in condensed matter and high-energy physics that
has recently become the focus of quantum-simulation experiments of lattice gauge theories …

Observation of quantum information collapse-and-revival in a strongly-interacting Rydberg atom array

DS Xiang, YW Zhang, HX Liu, P Zhou, D Yuan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Interactions of isolated quantum many-body systems typically scramble local information into
the entire system and make it unrecoverable. Ergodicity-breaking systems possess the …

Protecting Hilbert space fragmentation through quantum Zeno dynamics

P Patil, A Singhania, JC Halimeh - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Hilbert space fragmentation is an intriguing paradigm of ergodicity breaking in interacting
quantum many-body systems with applications to quantum information technology, but it is …