Three-body interactions in Rydberg lattices

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Main Authors: Samajdar, Rhine, Lukin, Mikhail D., Walther, Valentin
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Published: 2026
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author Samajdar, Rhine
Lukin, Mikhail D.
Walther, Valentin
author_facet Samajdar, Rhine
Lukin, Mikhail D.
Walther, Valentin
contents Programmable arrays of neutral Rydberg atoms are one of the leading platforms today for scalable quantum simulation and computation. In these systems, the dipole-dipole interactions between the individual atoms, or qubits, typically result in binary -- i.e., two-body -- couplings. In this work, we develop an experimentally accessible scheme for engineering three-body interactions in Rydberg lattices. Such strong three-body couplings can fundamentally modify the underlying physics compared to systems with only two-body interactions: we demonstrate this, in particular, by systematically investigating the effective many-body Hamiltonian and its emergent quantum phases. This capability paves the way for the quantum simulation of a broader class of correlated models of condensed matter and high-energy physics.
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spellingShingle Three-body interactions in Rydberg lattices
Samajdar, Rhine
Lukin, Mikhail D.
Walther, Valentin
Quantum Gases
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Physics
Programmable arrays of neutral Rydberg atoms are one of the leading platforms today for scalable quantum simulation and computation. In these systems, the dipole-dipole interactions between the individual atoms, or qubits, typically result in binary -- i.e., two-body -- couplings. In this work, we develop an experimentally accessible scheme for engineering three-body interactions in Rydberg lattices. Such strong three-body couplings can fundamentally modify the underlying physics compared to systems with only two-body interactions: we demonstrate this, in particular, by systematically investigating the effective many-body Hamiltonian and its emergent quantum phases. This capability paves the way for the quantum simulation of a broader class of correlated models of condensed matter and high-energy physics.
title Three-body interactions in Rydberg lattices
topic Quantum Gases
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11870