Emergent glassy behavior in a kagome Rydberg atom array

Z Yan, YC Wang, R Samajdar, S Sachdev, ZY Meng - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulation results on a realistic Hamiltonian of
kagome-lattice Rydberg atom arrays. Although the system has no intrinsic disorder …

False vacuum decay and nucleation dynamics in neutral atom systems

S Darbha, M Kornjača, F Liu, J Balewski… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Metastable states of quantum many-body systems with confinement offer a means to
simulate false vacuum phenomenology, including nonequilibrium dynamical processes like …

Long-lived oscillations of metastable states in neutral atom systems

S Darbha, M Kornjača, F Liu, J Balewski… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Metastable states arise in a range of quantum systems and can be observed in various
dynamical scenarios, including decay, bubble nucleation, and long-lived oscillations. The …

Quantum dimer models with Rydberg gadgets

Z Zeng, G Giudici, H Pichler - Physical Review Research, 2025 - APS
The Rydberg blockade mechanism is an important ingredient in quantum simulators based
on neutral atom arrays. It enables the emergence of a rich variety of quantum phases of …

Engineering quantum states with neutral atoms

J Balewski, M Kornjača, K Klymko… - 2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aquila, an analog quantum simulation platform developed by QuEra Computing, supports
control of the position and coherent evolution of up to 256 neutral atoms. This study details …

Quantum simulation of dynamical gauge theories in periodically driven Rydberg atom arrays

J Feldmeier, N Maskara, NU Köylüoğlu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Simulating quantum dynamics of lattice gauge theories (LGTs) is an exciting frontier in
quantum science. Programmable quantum simulators based on neutral atom arrays are a …

Digital-analog quantum learning on Rydberg atom arrays

JZ Lu, L Jiao, K Wolinski, M Kornjača, HY Hu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose hybrid digital-analog learning algorithms on Rydberg atom arrays, combining
the potentially practical utility and near-term realizability of quantum learning with the rapidly …

Anomalous suppression of large-scale density fluctuations in classical and quantum spin liquids

D Chen, R Samajdar, Y Jiao, S Torquato - Proceedings of the National …, 2025 - pnas.org
Classical spin liquids (CSLs) are intriguing states of matter that do not exhibit long-range
magnetic order and are characterized by an extensive ground-state degeneracy. Adding …

Tunable Two-Species Spin Models with Rydberg Atoms in Circular and Elliptical States

J Dobrzyniecki, P Heim, M Tomza - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.14854, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a scheme for constructing versatile quantum simulators using ultracold Rydberg
atoms in long-lived circular and elliptical states. By exciting different subspaces of internal …

Long-lived oscillations of false and true vacuum states in neutral atom systems

S Darbha, M Kornjača, F Liu, J Balewski… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Metastable false vacuum states arise in a range of quantum systems and can be observed in
various dynamical scenarios, including decay, bubble nucleation, and long-lived …