Spin-glass quantum phase transition in amorphous arrays of Rydberg atoms

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Autori principali: Brodoloni, L., Vovrosh, J., Julià-Farré, S., Dauphin, A., Pilati, S.
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Brodoloni, L.
Vovrosh, J.
Julià-Farré, S.
Dauphin, A.
Pilati, S.
author_facet Brodoloni, L.
Vovrosh, J.
Julià-Farré, S.
Dauphin, A.
Pilati, S.
contents The experiments performed with neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers and coherently coupled to the Rydberg state allow quantum simulations of paradigmatic Hamiltonians for quantum magnetism. Previous studies have focused mainly on periodic arrangements of the optical tweezers, which host various spatially ordered magnetic phases. Here, we perform unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the ground state of quantum Ising models for amorphous arrays of Rydberg atoms. These models are designed to feature well-controlled local structural properties in the absence of long-range order. Notably, by determining the Edwards-Anderson order parameter, we find evidence of a quantum phase transition from a paramagnetic to a spin-glass phase. The magnetic structure factor indicates short-range isotropic antiferromagnetic correlations. For the feasible sizes, the spin-overlap distribution features a nontrivial structure with two broad peaks and a sizable weight at zero overlap. The comparison against results for the clean kagome lattice, which features local structural properties similar to those of our amorphous arrays, highlights the important role of the absence of long-range structural order of the underlying array. Our findings indicate a route to experimentally implement the details of a Hamiltonian which hosts a quantum spin-glass phase.
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spellingShingle Spin-glass quantum phase transition in amorphous arrays of Rydberg atoms
Brodoloni, L.
Vovrosh, J.
Julià-Farré, S.
Dauphin, A.
Pilati, S.
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Computational Physics
The experiments performed with neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers and coherently coupled to the Rydberg state allow quantum simulations of paradigmatic Hamiltonians for quantum magnetism. Previous studies have focused mainly on periodic arrangements of the optical tweezers, which host various spatially ordered magnetic phases. Here, we perform unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the ground state of quantum Ising models for amorphous arrays of Rydberg atoms. These models are designed to feature well-controlled local structural properties in the absence of long-range order. Notably, by determining the Edwards-Anderson order parameter, we find evidence of a quantum phase transition from a paramagnetic to a spin-glass phase. The magnetic structure factor indicates short-range isotropic antiferromagnetic correlations. For the feasible sizes, the spin-overlap distribution features a nontrivial structure with two broad peaks and a sizable weight at zero overlap. The comparison against results for the clean kagome lattice, which features local structural properties similar to those of our amorphous arrays, highlights the important role of the absence of long-range structural order of the underlying array. Our findings indicate a route to experimentally implement the details of a Hamiltonian which hosts a quantum spin-glass phase.
title Spin-glass quantum phase transition in amorphous arrays of Rydberg atoms
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05117