Quantum simulation of fundamental particles and forces

CW Bauer, Z Davoudi, N Klco, MJ Savage - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Key static and dynamic properties of matter—from creation in the Big Bang to evolution into
subatomic and astrophysical environments—arise from the underlying fundamental …

Standard model physics and the digital quantum revolution: thoughts about the interface

N Klco, A Roggero, MJ Savage - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Advances in isolating, controlling and entangling quantum systems are transforming what
was once a curious feature of quantum mechanics into a vehicle for disruptive scientific and …

Observation of gauge invariance in a 71-site Bose–Hubbard quantum simulator

B Yang, H Sun, R Ott, HY Wang, TV Zache, JC Halimeh… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The modern description of elementary particles, as formulated in the standard model of
particle physics, is built on gauge theories. Gauge theories implement fundamental laws of …

QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

Preparations for quantum simulations of quantum chromodynamics in dimensions. I. Axial gauge

RC Farrell, IA Chernyshev, SJM Powell, NA Zemlevskiy… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Tools necessary for quantum simulations of 1+ 1 dimensional quantum chromodynamics are
developed. When formulated in axial gauge and with two flavors of quarks, this system …

Preparations for quantum simulations of quantum chromodynamics in dimensions. II. Single-baryon -decay in real time

RC Farrell, IA Chernyshev, SJM Powell, NA Zemlevskiy… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
A framework for quantum simulations of real-time weak decays of hadrons and nuclei in a
two-flavor lattice theory in one spatial dimension is presented. A single generation of the …

High-energy collision of quarks and mesons in the Schwinger model: From tensor networks to circuit QED

R Belyansky, S Whitsitt, N Mueller, A Fahimniya… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
With the aim of studying nonperturbative out-of-equilibrium dynamics of high-energy particle
collisions on quantum simulators, we investigate the scattering dynamics of lattice quantum …

Quantum computation of dynamical quantum phase transitions and entanglement tomography in a lattice gauge theory

N Mueller, JA Carolan, A Connelly, Z Davoudi… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Strongly coupled gauge theories far from equilibrium may exhibit unique features that could
illuminate the physics of the early universe and of hadron and ion colliders. Studying real …

QuSpin: a Python package for dynamics and exact diagonalisation of quantum many body systems. Part II: bosons, fermions and higher spins

P Weinberg, M Bukov - SciPost Physics, 2019 - scipost.org
We present a major update to QuSpin, SciPostPhys. 2.1. 003--an open-source Python
package for exact diagonalization and quantum dynamics of arbitrary boson, fermion and …

Tuning the Topological -Angle in Cold-Atom Quantum Simulators of Gauge Theories

JC Halimeh, IP McCulloch, B Yang, P Hauke - Prx Quantum, 2022 - APS
The topological θ-angle in gauge theories engenders a series of fundamental phenomena,
including violations of charge-parity (CP) symmetry, dynamical topological transitions, and …