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We study the emergence of many-body correlations in the stationary state of continuously-driven, strongly-interacting dissipative system. Specifically, we examine resonant optical excitations of Rydberg states of atoms interacting via…

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Quantum information processing based on Rydberg atoms emerged as a promising direction two decades ago. Recent experimental and theoretical progresses have shined exciting light on this avenue. In this concise review, we will briefly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Xiaoling Wu , Xinhui Liang , Yaoqi Tian , Fan Yang , Cheng Chen , Yong-Chun Liu , Meng Khoon Tey , Li You

Quantum computing has the potential to reduce the computational cost required for quantum dynamics simulations. However, existing quantum algorithms for coupled electron-nuclear dynamics simulation either require fault-tolerant devices, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jong-Kwon Ha , Ryan J. MacDonell

We have developed a method to simulate quantum spin models with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) using Rydberg atom quantum simulators. Our approach involves a two-photon Raman transition and a transformation to the spin-rotating…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-02 Masaya Kunimi , Takafumi Tomita , Hosho Katsura , Yusuke Kato

Modeling and simulating the protein folding process overall remains a grand challenge in computational biology. We systematically investigate end-to-end quantum algorithms for simulating various protein dynamics with effects, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhenning Liu , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang , Jin-Peng Liu

Although quantum simulation can give insight into elusive or intractable physical phenomena, many quantum simulators are unavoidably limited in the models they mimic. Such is also the case for atom arrays interacting via Rydberg states - a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-13 Naveen Nishad , Anna Keselman , Thierry Lahaye , Antoine Browaeys , Shai Tsesses

In the last decade, quantum simulators, and in particular cold atoms in optical lattices, have emerged as a valuable tool to study strongly correlated quantum matter. These experiments are now reaching regimes that are numerically difficult…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-05 Annabelle Bohrdt , Lukas Homeier , Christian Reinmoser , Eugene Demler , Fabian Grusdt

Protein clamps provide the cell with effective mechanisms for sensing of environmental changes and triggering adaptations that maintain homeostasis. The general physical mechanism behind protein clamping action, however, is poorly…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Danko D. Georgiev , James F. Glazebrook

Quantum simulation using synthetic systems is a promising route to solve outstanding quantum many-body problems in regimes where other approaches, including numerical ones, fail. Many platforms are being developed towards this goal, in…

We introduce a quantum channel to model the dissipative dynamics resulting from the coupling between spin and motional degrees of freedom in chains of neutral atoms with Rydberg interactions. The quantum channel acts on the reduced spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Christopher Wyenberg , Kent Ueno , Alexandre Cooper

Following Feynman and as elaborated on by Lloyd, a universal quantum simulator (QS) is a controlled quantum device which reproduces the dynamics of any other many particle quantum system with short range interactions. This dynamics can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 Hendrik Weimer , Markus Müller , Igor Lesanovsky , Peter Zoller , Hans Peter Büchler

Characterizing the nature of hydrodynamical transport properties in quantum dynamics provides valuable insights into the fundamental understanding of exotic non-equilibrium phases of matter. Experimentally simulating infinite-temperature…

A comprehensive description of molecular electron transfer reactions is essential for our understanding of fundamental phenomena in bio-energetics and molecular electronics. Experimental studies of molecular systems in condensed-phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Frank Schlawin , Manuel Gessner , Andreas Buchleitner , Tobias Schaetz , Spiros S Skourtis

We present a novel method for solving eigenvalue problems on a quantum computer based on spectroscopy. The method works by coupling a "probe" qubit to a set of system simulation qubits and then time evolving both the probe and the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 John P. T. Stenger , Gilad Ben-Shach , David Pekker , Nicholas T. Bronn

Quantum transport can be simulated with ultracold atoms by employing spin superpositions of fermions interacting with spin-dependent potentials. Here we first extend this scheme to an arbitrary number of spin components so as to allow…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-23 Sho Nakada , Shun Uchino , Yusuke Nishida

We study resonant optical excitations of strongly-interacting Rydberg states of atoms in the presence of relaxations. We employ the quantum stochastic (Monte Carlo) wavefunctions to simulate the dissipative dynamics of tens of atoms in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 David Petrosyan

We demonstrate that through localised Rydberg excitation in a three-dimensional cold atom cloud atomic motion can be rendered directed and nearly confined to a plane, without spatial constraints for the motion of individual atoms. This…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 K. Leonhardt , S. Wüster , J. M. Rost

State-of-the-art experiments using Rydberg atoms can now operate with large numbers of trapped particles with tunable geometry and long coherence time. We propose a way to utilize this in a hybrid setup involving neutral ground state atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 João Pedro Mendonça , Krzysztof Jachymski

Recent experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates have entered a regime in which thousands of ground-state condensate atoms fill the Rydberg-electron orbit. After the excitation of a single atom into a highly excited Rydberg state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 S. Tiwari , F. Engel , M. Wagner , R. Schmidt , F. Meinert , S. Wüster

Transport phenomena play a key role in a variety of application domains, and efficient simulation of these dynamics remains an outstanding challenge. While quantum computers offer potential for significant speedups, existing algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Joseph Li , Gengzhi Yang , Jiaqi Leng , Xiaodi Wu