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We describe a quantum information architecture consisting of a hybrid array of optically-trapped molecules and atoms. This design leverages the large transition dipole moments of Rydberg atoms to mediate fast, high-fidelity gates between…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Kenneth Wang , Conner P. Williams , Lewis R. B. Picard , Norman Y. Yao , Kang-Kuen Ni

Flexible Rydberg aggregates, assemblies of few Rydberg atoms coherently sharing electronic excitations while undergoing directed atomic motion, show great promise as quantum simulation platform for nuclear motional dynamics in molecules or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Ghassan Abumwis , Sebastian Wüster

Classical simulation of quantum systems plays an important role in the study of many-body phenomena and in the benchmarking and verification of quantum technologies. Exact simulation is often limited to small systems because the dimension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Dominik S. Wild , Sabina Drăgoi , Corbin McElhanney , Jonathan Wurtz , Sheng-Tao Wang

Individual neutral atoms excited to Rydberg states are a promising platform for quantum simulation and quantum information processing. However, experimental progress to date has been limited by short coherence times and relatively low gate…

Quantum simulators have the potential to solve quantum many-body problems that are beyond the reach of classical computers, especially when they feature long-range entanglement. To fulfill their prospects, quantum simulators must be fully…

Rydberg atom arrays are powerful platforms for studying quantum many-body systems. We consider the Rydberg-Ising Hamiltonian on periodic chains and numerically study ensembles of states generated by random global pulse sequences subject to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Edison S. Carrera , Grégoire Misguich

Rydberg atom quantum simulator platforms are novel quantum simulators for physical systems ranging from condensed matter to particle physics. In this paper, we study out-of-equilibrium quantum dynamics in a model of Rydberg atoms arranged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Mainak Pal , Tista Banerjee

Neutral-atom arrays trapped in optical potentials are a powerful platform for studying quantum physics, combining precise single-particle control and detection with a range of tunable entangling interactions. For example, these capabilities…

Rydberg atom array has been established as one appealing platform for quantum simulation and quantum computation. Recent experimental development of trapping and controlling two-species atoms using optical tweezer arrays has brought more…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-29 Lei-Yi-Nan Liu , Shun-Yao Yu , Shi-Rong Peng , Jie Sheng , Su Yi , Peng Xu , Shou-Shu Gong , Tao Shi , Jian Cui

We present programmable two-dimensional arrays of microscopic atomic ensembles consisting of more than 400 sites with nearly uniform filling and small atom number fluctuations. Our approach involves direct projection of light patterns from…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Y. Wang , S. Shevate , T. M. Wintermantel , M. Morgado , G. Lochead , S. Whitlock

Recent years have seen growing interest in sharp polaronic transitions in systems with strongly momentum-dependent interactions of an itinerant excitation (electron, hole, exciton) with dispersionless phonons. This work presents a scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Vladimir M. Stojanovic

The properties and behaviour of a Ring Rydberg Composite are explicated. This system consists of a ring of ground state atoms centered on a Rydberg atom, whose electron elastically scatters off the ground state atoms. We transform the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Matthew T. Eiles , Andrew L. Hunter , Jan M. Rost

Single atoms in dipole microtraps or optical tweezers have recently become a promising platform for quantum computing and simulation. Here we report a detailed theoretical analysis of the physics underlying an implementation of a Rydberg…

Transport of excitations along proteins can be formulated in a quantum physics context, based on the periodicity and vibrational modes of the structures. Exact solutions are very challenging to obtain on classical computers, however,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Marcin Płodzień , Tomasz Sowiński , Servaas Kokkelmans

Hybrid systems of ultracold atoms and trapped ions or Rydberg atoms can be useful for quantum simulation purposes. By tuning the geometric arrangement of the impurities it is possible to mimic solid state and molecular systems. Here we…

Quantum simulation of interacting many-body spin systems is routinely performed with cold trapped ions, and systems with hundreds of spins have been studied in one and two dimensions. In the most common realizations of these platforms, spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Wilson S. Martins , Markus Hennrich , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler , Igor Lesanovsky

We theoretically investigate the possibility of creating phonon-mediated spin-spin interactions between neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers. By laser coupling the atoms to Rydberg states, collective modes of motion appear. We show…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Rasmus Vestergaard Skannrup , R. Gerritsma , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

Programmable quantum simulators based on Rydberg atom arrays are a fast-emerging quantum platform, bringing together long coherence times, high-fidelity operations, and large numbers of interacting qubits deterministically arranged in…

Here, we propose a platform based on ultra-cold fermionic molecules trapped in optical lattices to simulate nonadiabatic effects, as they appear in certain molecular dynamical problems. The idea consists of a judicious choice of two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-25 Javier Argüello-Luengo , Alejandro González-Tudela , J. Ignacio Cirac

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