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We present a platform for the simulation of quantum magnetism with full control of interactions between pairs of spins at arbitrary distances in one- and two-dimensional lattices. In our scheme, two internal atomic states represent a…

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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

We study coherent excitation hopping in a spin chain realized using highly excited individually addressable Rydberg atoms. The dynamics are fully described in terms of an XY spin Hamiltonian with a long range resonant dipole-dipole coupling…

Rydberg atom arrays have recently been conjectured to host $Z_2$ quantum spin liquids (QSLs) in certain parameter regimes. Due to the strong interactions between these atoms, it is not possible to analytically study these systems, and one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Pranay Patil , Owen Benton

Rydberg tweezer arrays provide a platform for realizing spin-1/2 Hamiltonians with long-range tunneling that decays as a power law with distance. We numerically investigate the effects of positional disorder and dimerization on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-26 Maksym Prodius , Adith Sai Aramthottil , Jakub Zakrzewski

In an array of coupled cavities where the cavities are doped with an atomic V-system, and the two excited levels couple to cavity photons of different polarizations, we show how to construct various spin models employed in characterizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alastair Kay , Dimitris G. Angelakis

We show that the interaction between Rydberg atomic states can provide continuous spin squeezing of atoms with two ground states. The interaction prevents the simultaneous excitation of more than a single atom in the sample to the Rydberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Isabelle Bouchoule , Klaus Moelmer

A topological quantum number, the Witten index, characterizes supersymmetric models by probing for zero energy modes and the possibility of supersymmetry breaking. We propose an averaging method to infer the Witten index in quantum analog…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Hrushikesh Sable , Nathan M. Myers , Vito W. Scarola

Quantum spin ice represents a paradigmatic example on how the physics of frustrated magnets is related to gauge theories. In the present work we address the problem of approximately realizing quantum spin ice in two dimensions with cold…

We propose a quantum optical implementation of a class of dissipative spin systems, including the XXZ and Ising model, with ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices. Employing the motional degree of freedom of the atoms and detuned Raman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Heike Schwager , J. Ignacio Cirac , Géza Giedke

Predicting the dynamical properties of topological matter is a challenging task, not only in theoretical and experimental settings, but also numerically. This work proposes a variational approach based on a time-dependent correlated Ansatz,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Linda Mauron , Zakari Denis , Jannes Nys , Giuseppe Carleo

Laser cooling and trapping of atomic matter waves in optical potentials has enabled rapid progress in quantum science, particularly when combined with Rydberg excitation of the atoms to induce long-range interactions. Here, we propose the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Homar Rivera-Rodríguez , Matthew T. Eiles , Tilman Pfau , Florian Meinert

Engineering a Hamiltonian system with tunable interactions provides opportunities to optimize performance for quantum sensing and explore emerging phenomena of many-body systems. An optical lattice clock based on partially delocalized…

The most recent manifestation of cold Rydberg atom quantum simulators that employs tailored optical tweezer arrays enables the study of many-body dynamics under so-called facilitation conditions. We show how the facilitation mechanism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Maike Ostmann , Matteo Marcuzzi , Jiri Minar , Igor Lesanovsky

Simulating quantum dynamics of lattice gauge theories (LGTs) is an exciting frontier in quantum science. Programmable quantum simulators based on neutral atom arrays are a promising approach to achieve this goal, since strong Rydberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Johannes Feldmeier , Nishad Maskara , Nazlı Uğur Köylüoğlu , Mikhail D. Lukin

The fields of quantum simulation with cold atoms [1] and quantum optics [2] are currently being merged. In a set of recent pathbreaking experiments with atoms in optical cavities [3,4] lattice quantum many-body systems with both, a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-20 Jan Gelhausen , Michael Buchhold , Achim Rosch , Philipp Strack

Spin models like the Heisenberg Hamiltonian effectively describe the interactions of open-shell transition-metal ions on a lattice and can account for various properties of magnetic solids and molecules. Numerical methods are usually…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Shadan Ghassemi Tabrizi , Thomas D. Kühne

Ultracold Rydberg atom arrays are an emerging platform for quantum simulation and computing. However, decoherence in these systems remains incompletely understood. Recent experiments [Guardado-Sanchez et al. Phys. Rev. X 8, 021069 (2018)]…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-27 Zewen Zhang , Ming Yuan , Bhuvanesh Sundar , Kaden R. A. Hazzard

We study a system of atoms that are laser-driven to $nD_{3/2}$ Rydberg states and assess how accurately they can be mapped onto spin-$1/2$ particles for the quantum simulation of anisotropic Ising magnets. Using non-perturbative…

Rydberg tweezer arrays provide a versatile platform to explore quantum magnets with dipolar XY or van-der-Waals Ising ZZ interactions. Here, we propose a scheme combining dipolar and van-der-Waals interactions between two Rydberg states,…