Dec 1 – 3, 2021
America/New_York timezone

Quantum simulations of scalar electrodynamics with Rydberg atoms

Dec 1, 2021, 10:30 AM
20m

Speaker

Yannick Meurice (University of IOWA)

Description

Using Tensor Lattice Field Theory (for a recent review see arXiv:2010.06539),
we construct a gauge-invariant transfer matrix for compact scalar electrodynamics in arbitrary dimensions. We propose a noise-robust way to implement Gauss's law. We discuss quantum simulation experiments with Rydberg atoms where the electric field Hilbert space is approximated by a spin-1 triplet. We propose two different quantum simulators for this model obtained by assembling arrays of Rydberg atoms with ladder structures. We compare observables associated with the real-time evolution of (small) systems for the simulators and the target model. We briefly discuss recent experimental progress.

Primary author

Yannick Meurice (University of IOWA)

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