Scalar QED with Rydberg atoms

Author:

Yannick Meurice, James Corona, Sergio Cantu, Fangli Liu, Shengtao Wang, Kenny Heitritter, Steve Mrenna, Jin Zhang, Shan-Wen Tsai

Keyword:

High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat), Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

journal:

FERMILAB-CONF-23-0831-CSAID

date:

2023-12-28 00:00:00

Abstract

We review recent suggestions to quantum simulate scalar electrodynamics (the lattice Abelian Higgs model) in $1+1$ dimensions with rectangular arrays of Rydberg atoms. We show that platforms made publicly available recently allow empirical explorations of the critical behavior of quantum simulators. We discuss recent progress regarding the phase diagram of two-leg ladders, effective Hamiltonian approaches and the construction of hybrid quantum algorithms targeting hadronization in collider physics event generators.

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