High-energy collision of quarks and mesons in the Schwinger model: From tensor networks to circuit QED

R Belyansky, S Whitsitt, N Mueller, A Fahimniya… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
With the aim of studying nonperturbative out-of-equilibrium dynamics of high-energy particle
collisions on quantum simulators, we investigate the scattering dynamics of lattice quantum …

Confinement and kink entanglement asymmetry on a quantum Ising chain

BJJ Khor, DM Kürkçüoglu, TJ Hobbs, GN Perdue… - Quantum, 2024 - quantum-journal.org
In this work, we explore the interplay of confinement, string breaking and entanglement
asymmetry on a 1D quantum Ising chain. We consider the evolution of an initial domain wall …

Detecting a Long-Lived False Vacuum with Quantum Quenches

G Lagnese, FM Surace, S Morampudi, F Wilczek - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Distinguishing whether a system supports alternate low-energy (locally stable) states—
stable (true vacuum) versus metastable (false vacuum)—by direct observation can be …

[PDF][PDF] Simulating meson scattering on spin quantum simulators

ER Bennewitz, B Ware, A Schuckert… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - hub.jqi.umd.edu
Studying high-energy collisions of composite particles, such as hadrons and nuclei, is an
outstanding goal for quantum simulators. However, preparation of hadronic wave packets …

String breaking mechanism in a lattice Schwinger model simulator

Y Liu, WY Zhang, ZH Zhu, MG He, ZS Yuan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
String breaking is a fundamental concept in gauge theories, describing the decay of a flux
string connecting two charges through the production of particle-antiparticle pairs. This …

Protecting Quantum Information via Many-Body Dynamical Localization

LZ Tang, DW Zhang, HF Yu, ZD Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.19228, 2024 - arxiv.org
Dynamically localized states in quantum many-body systems are fundamentally important in
understanding quantum thermalization and have applications in quantum information …

String-Breaking Dynamics in Quantum Adiabatic and Diabatic Processes

FM Surace, A Lerose, O Katz, ER Bennewitz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Confinement prohibits isolation of color charges, eg, quarks, in nature via a process called
string breaking: the separation of two charges results in an increase in the energy of a color …

String Breaking in a D Lattice Gauge Theory

U Borla, JJ Osborne, S Moroz, JC Halimeh - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
String breaking is an intriguing phenomenon crucial to the understanding of lattice gauge
theories (LGTs), with strong relevance to both condensed matter and high-energy physics …

Constrained dynamics and confinement in the two-dimensional quantum Ising model

L Pavešić, D Jaschke, S Montangero - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.11979, 2024 - arxiv.org
We investigate the dynamics of the quantum Ising model on two-dimensional square lattices
up to $16\times 16$ spins. In the ordered phase, the model is predicted to exhibit …

Observation of string-breaking dynamics in a quantum simulator

C Monroe, A De, A Lerose, D Luo, F Surace… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
The spontaneous formation of particle pairs is one of the most intriguing phenomena in
nature. A canonical example is when the potential energy between two elementary particles …