Cold atoms meet lattice gauge theory

M Aidelsburger, L Barbiero… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The central idea of this review is to consider quantum field theory models relevant for
particle physics and replace the fermionic matter in these models by a bosonic one. This is …

Simulating lattice gauge theories within quantum technologies

MC Banuls, R Blatt, J Catani, A Celi, JI Cirac… - The European physical …, 2020 - Springer
Lattice gauge theories, which originated from particle physics in the context of Quantum
Chromodynamics (QCD), provide an important intellectual stimulus to further develop …

Review on novel methods for lattice gauge theories

MC Banuls, K Cichy - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Formulating gauge theories on a lattice offers a genuinely non-perturbative way of studying
quantum field theories, and has led to impressive achievements. In particular, it significantly …

Flat-band many-body localization and ergodicity breaking in the Creutz ladder

Y Kuno, T Orito, I Ichinose - New Journal of Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We study disorder-free many-body localization in the flat-band Creutz ladder, which was
recently realized in cold-atoms in an optical lattice. In a non-interacting case, the flat-band …

[HTML][HTML] Large-N Chern insulators: Lattice field theory and quantum simulation approaches to correlation effects in the quantum anomalous Hall effect

L Ziegler, E Tirrito, M Lewenstein, S Hands… - Annals of Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Four-Fermi quantum field theories in (2+ 1) dimensions lie among the simplest models in
high-energy physics, the understanding of which requires a non-perturbative lattice …

Robust Topological Order in Fermionic Gauge Theories: From Aharonov-Bohm Instability to Soliton-Induced Deconfinement

D González-Cuadra, L Tagliacozzo, M Lewenstein… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Topologically ordered phases of matter, although stable against local perturbations, are
usually restricted to relatively small regions in phase diagrams. Thus, their preparation …

gauge theories coupled to topological fermions: with a quantum mechanical angle

G Magnifico, D Vodola, E Ercolessi, SP Kumar… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We present a detailed study of the topological Schwinger model [Phys. Rev. D 99, 014503
(2019) 2470-0010 10.1103/PhysRevD. 99.014503], which describes (1+ 1) quantum …

Correlated Chern insulators in two-dimensional Raman lattices: A cold-atom regularization of strongly coupled four-Fermi field theories

L Ziegler, E Tirrito, M Lewenstein, S Hands… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We show that synthetic spin-orbit coupling for ultracold atoms in optical Raman potentials
can be exploited to build versatile quantum simulators of correlated Chern insulators …

Extended flat band, entanglement, and topological properties in a Creutz ladder

Y Kuno - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
In this work, we study the entanglement and topological properties of an extended flat-band
Creutz ladder by considering a compacted localized state (CLS). Based on the CLS picture …

Fermion production at the boundary of an expanding universe: a cold-atom gravitational analogue

C Fulgado-Claudio, JMS Velázquez, A Bermudez - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
We study the phenomenon of cosmological particle production of Dirac fermions in a
Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime, focusing on a $(1+ 1)-$ dimensional case in which …