A Floquet-Rydberg quantum simulator for confinement in $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge theories

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Autores principales: Domanti, Enrico C., Zappalà, Dario, Bermudez, Alejandro, Amico, Luigi
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Publicado: 2023
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author Domanti, Enrico C.
Zappalà, Dario
Bermudez, Alejandro
Amico, Luigi
author_facet Domanti, Enrico C.
Zappalà, Dario
Bermudez, Alejandro
Amico, Luigi
contents Recent advances in the field of quantum technologies have opened up the road for the realization of small-scale quantum simulators of lattice gauge theories which, among other goals, aim at improving our understanding on the non-perturbative mechanisms underlying the confinement of quarks. In this work, considering periodically-driven arrays of Rydberg atoms in a tweezer ladder geometry, we devise a scalable Floquet scheme for the quantum simulation of the real-time dynamics in a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ LGT. Resorting to an external magnetic field to tune the angular dependence of the Rydberg dipolar interactions, and by a suitable tuning of the driving parameters, we manage to suppress the main gauge-violating terms, and show that an observation of gauge-invariant confinement dynamics in the Floquet-Rydberg setup is at reach of current experimental techniques. Depending on the lattice size, we present a thorough numerical test of the validity of this scheme using either exact diagonalization or matrix-product-state algorithms for the periodically-modulated real-time dynamics.
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spellingShingle A Floquet-Rydberg quantum simulator for confinement in $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge theories
Domanti, Enrico C.
Zappalà, Dario
Bermudez, Alejandro
Amico, Luigi
Quantum Gases
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Quantum Physics
Recent advances in the field of quantum technologies have opened up the road for the realization of small-scale quantum simulators of lattice gauge theories which, among other goals, aim at improving our understanding on the non-perturbative mechanisms underlying the confinement of quarks. In this work, considering periodically-driven arrays of Rydberg atoms in a tweezer ladder geometry, we devise a scalable Floquet scheme for the quantum simulation of the real-time dynamics in a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ LGT. Resorting to an external magnetic field to tune the angular dependence of the Rydberg dipolar interactions, and by a suitable tuning of the driving parameters, we manage to suppress the main gauge-violating terms, and show that an observation of gauge-invariant confinement dynamics in the Floquet-Rydberg setup is at reach of current experimental techniques. Depending on the lattice size, we present a thorough numerical test of the validity of this scheme using either exact diagonalization or matrix-product-state algorithms for the periodically-modulated real-time dynamics.
title A Floquet-Rydberg quantum simulator for confinement in $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge theories
topic Quantum Gases
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16758