Quantum circuits for digital quantum simulation of nonlocal electron-phonon coupling

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Main Author: Stojanovic, Vladimir M.
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Published: 2024
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contents Motivated by the compelling need to understand the nonequilibrium dynamics of small-polaron formation following an electron-phonon interaction quench, in this work we propose a digital quantum simulator of a one-dimensional lattice model describing an itinerant fermionic excitation (e.g. an electron) nonlocally coupled to zero-dimensional bosons (e.g. Einstein-type phonons). Quantum circuits implementing the dynamics of this model, which includes Peierls- and breathing-mode-type excitation-boson interactions, are designed here, their complexity scaling linearly with the system size. A circuit that generates the natural initial (pre-quench) state of this system -- a bare-excitation Bloch state, equivalent to a $W$ state of a qubit register -- is also presented. To facilitate comparisons with the proposed simulator, once experimentally realized, the system dynamics are also evaluated numerically and characterized through the Loschmidt echo and various correlation functions.
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spellingShingle Quantum circuits for digital quantum simulation of nonlocal electron-phonon coupling
Stojanovic, Vladimir M.
Quantum Physics
Motivated by the compelling need to understand the nonequilibrium dynamics of small-polaron formation following an electron-phonon interaction quench, in this work we propose a digital quantum simulator of a one-dimensional lattice model describing an itinerant fermionic excitation (e.g. an electron) nonlocally coupled to zero-dimensional bosons (e.g. Einstein-type phonons). Quantum circuits implementing the dynamics of this model, which includes Peierls- and breathing-mode-type excitation-boson interactions, are designed here, their complexity scaling linearly with the system size. A circuit that generates the natural initial (pre-quench) state of this system -- a bare-excitation Bloch state, equivalent to a $W$ state of a qubit register -- is also presented. To facilitate comparisons with the proposed simulator, once experimentally realized, the system dynamics are also evaluated numerically and characterized through the Loschmidt echo and various correlation functions.
title Quantum circuits for digital quantum simulation of nonlocal electron-phonon coupling
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08123