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Harnessing spin-qubit decoherence to probe strongly-interacting quantum systems

Quantum Physics 2025-12-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Extracting information from quantum many-body systems remains a key challenge in quantum technologies due to experimental limitations. In this work, we employ a single spin qubit to probe a strongly interacting system, creating an environment conducive to qubit decoherence. By focusing on the XXZ spin chain, we observe diverse dynamics in the qubit evolution, reflecting different parameters of the chain. This demonstrates that a spin qubit can probe both quantitative properties of the spin chain and qualitative characteristics, such as the bipartite entanglement entropy, phase transitions, and perturbation propagation velocity within the system. This approach reveals the power of small quantum systems to probe the properties of large, strongly correlated quantum systems.

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@article{arxiv.2410.22003,
  title  = {Harnessing spin-qubit decoherence to probe strongly-interacting quantum systems},
  author = {Marcin Płodzień and Sambunath Das and Maciej Lewenstein and Christina Psaroudaki and Katarzyna Roszak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22003},
  year   = {2025}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures, 1 supplemental material

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