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String breaking is a central dynamical process in theories featuring confinement, where a string connecting two charges decays at the expense of the creation of new particle-antiparticle pairs. Here, we show that this process can also be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-23 Roberto Verdel , Fangli Liu , Seth Whitsitt , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Markus Heyl

String breaking is one of the most representative non-perturbative dynamics processes in confinement theory, typically associated with the creation of particle-antiparticle pairs. In this paper, we take a one-dimensional Rydberg atomic…

We consider the dynamics in the one-dimensional quantum Ising model in which each spin coherently interacts with its phononic mode. The model is motivated by quantum simulators based on Rydberg atoms in tweezers or trapped ions. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Arindam Mallick , Maciej Lewenstein , Jakub Zakrzewski , Marcin Płodzień

Spontaneous particle-pair formation is a fundamental phenomenon in nature. It can, for example, appear when the potential energy between two particles increases with separation, as if they were connected by a tense string. Beyond a critical…

With the advent of advanced quantum processors capable of probing lattice gauge theories (LGTs) in higher spatial dimensions, it is crucial to understand string dynamics in such models to guide upcoming experiments and to make connections…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-07-03 Kaidi Xu , Umberto Borla , Sergej Moroz , Jad C. Halimeh

The fission of a string connecting two charges is an astounding phenomenon in confining gauge theories. The dynamics of this process have been studied intensively in recent years, with plenty of numerical results yielding a dichotomy: the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-11 Roberto Verdel , Guo-Yi Zhu , Markus Heyl

At the heart of quark confinement and hadronization, the physics of flux strings has recently become a focal point in the field of quantum simulation of high-energy physics (HEP). Despite considerable progress, a detailed understanding of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-23 Jiahao Cao , Rohan Joshi , Yizhuo Tian , N. S. Srivatsa , Jad C. Halimeh

A dynamical model of confinement based on a transport theoretical description of the Friedberg-Lee model is extended to explicit color degrees of freedom. The string tension is reproduced by an adiabatic string formation from the nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Loh , T. S. Biro , U. Mosel , M. H. Thoma

String breaking is an intriguing phenomenon crucial to the understanding of lattice gauge theories (LGTs), with strong relevance to both condensed matter and high-energy physics (HEP). Recent experiments investigating string breaking in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Umberto Borla , Jesse J. Osborne , Sergej Moroz , Jad C. Halimeh

We study the real-time dynamics of string breaking in quantum electrodynamics in one spatial dimension. A two-stage process with a clear separation of time and energy scales for the fermion--antifermion pair creation and subsequent charge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-20 Florian Hebenstreit , Jürgen Berges , Daniil Gelfand

The static potential $V(r)$ between a static quark and a static antiquark separated by a distance r is defined as the energy of the ground state of the system. As a consequence of confinement, the energy between the quark-antiquark pair is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-11-26 Vanessa Koch , John Bulava , Ben Hörz , Francesco Knechtli , Graham Moir , Colin Morningstar , Mike Peardon

String breaking is a fundamental concept in gauge theories, describing the decay of a flux string connecting two charges through the production of particle-antiparticle pairs. This phenomenon is particularly important in particle physics,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-26 Ying Liu , Wei-Yong Zhang , Zi-Hang Zhu , Ming-Gen He , Zhen-Sheng Yuan , Jian-Wei Pan

String breaking, the process by which flux tubes fragment into hadronic states, is a hallmark of confinement in strongly-interacting quantum field theories. A suite of quantum complexity measures is examined using Matrix Product States to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Sebastian Grieninger , Martin J. Savage , Nikita A. Zemlevskiy

Understanding the dynamics of bound state formation is one of the fundamental questions in confining quantum field theories such as Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). One hadronization mechanism that has garnered significant attention is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Kyle Lee , James Mulligan , Felix Ringer , Xiaojun Yao

In this work, we explore the interplay of confinement, string breaking and entanglement asymmetry on a 1D quantum Ising chain. We consider the evolution of an initial domain wall and show that, surprisingly, while the introduction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Brian J. J. Khor , D. M. Kürkçüoglu , T. J. Hobbs , G. N. Perdue , Israel Klich

The confining string in presence of dynamical quarks can behave in different ways, depending on the quark masses and on the number N_f N_c of charge species. For light masses and large N_f N_c the creation of quark pairs produces…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 F. Gliozzi , P. Provero

Compact lattice Quantum Electrodynamics is a complex quantum field theory with dynamical gauge and matter fields and it has similarities with Quantum Chromodynamics, in particular asymptotic freedom and confinement. We consider a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-11 Arianna Crippa , Karl Jansen , Enrico Rinaldi

Understanding flux string dynamics can provide insight into quark confinement and hadronization. First-principles quantum and numerical simulations have mostly focused on toy-model Abelian lattice gauge theories (LGTs). With the advent of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-08 Giovanni Cataldi , Simone Orlando , Jad C. Halimeh

Gauge theories form the foundation of the Standard Model of particle physics. These theories can exhibit confinement, where charged particles only occur in bound states, connected by flux strings whose energy grows linearly with separation.…

Considerable progress has been achieved recently in the observation of string breaking within non-Abelian Higgs models, by use of multi-channel methods allowing for broken string states. Similarly, in pure gauge theory this approach has…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 K. Schilling
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