Ising machines are hardware solvers that aim to find the absolute or approximate ground
states of the Ising model. The Ising model is of fundamental computational interest because …

Single atoms and molecules can be trapped in tightly focused beams of light that form
'optical tweezers', affording exquisite capabilities for the control and detection of individual …

Motivated by far-reaching applications ranging from quantum simulations of complex
processes in physics and chemistry to quantum information processing, a broad effort is …

Recent decades have witnessed great developments in the field of quantum simulation—
where synthetic systems are built and studied to gain insight into complicated, many-body …

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid quantum-classical
variational algorithm designed to tackle combinatorial optimization problems. Despite its …

Quantum simulation using synthetic systems is a promising route to solve outstanding
quantum many-body problems in regimes where other approaches, including numerical …

Quantum simulation has emerged as a valuable arena for demonstrating and understanding
the capabilities of near-term quantum computers,–. Quantum annealing, has been …

In this review recent investigations are summarized of many-body quantum systems with
long-range interactions, which are currently realized in Rydberg atom arrays, dipolar …

Arrays of optically trapped atoms excited to Rydberg states have recently emerged as a
competitive physical platform for quantum simulation and computing, where high-fidelity …

We use the resonant dipole-dipole interaction between Rydberg atoms and a periodic
external microwave field to engineer XXZ spin Hamiltonians with tunable anisotropies. The …