@article {3503, title = {High-Energy Collision of Quarks and Mesons in the Schwinger Model: From Tensor Networks to Circuit QED}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, volume = {132}, year = {2024}, month = {2/28/2024}, abstract = {

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 electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions. Working in the bosonized formulation of the model and in the thermodynamic limit, we use uniform-matrix-product-state tensor networks to construct multi-particle wave-packet states, evolve them in time, and detect outgoing particles post collision. This facilitates the numerical simulation of scattering experiments in both confined and deconfined regimes of the model at different energies, giving rise to rich phenomenology, including inelastic production of quark and meson states, meson disintegration, and dynamical string formation and breaking. We obtain elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections, together with time-resolved momentum and position distributions of the outgoing particles. Furthermore, we propose an analog circuit-QED implementation of the scattering process that is native to the platform, requires minimal ingredients and approximations, and enables practical schemes for particle wave-packet preparation and evolution. This study highlights the role of classical and quantum simulation in enhancing our understanding of scattering processes in quantum field theories in real time.

}, issn = {1079-7114}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.091903}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02522}, author = {Belyansky, Ron and Whitsitt, Seth and Mueller, Niklas and Fahimniya, Ali and Bennewitz, Elizabeth R. and Davoudi, Zohreh and Gorshkov, Alexey V.} } @article {3356, title = {Hamiltonians whose low-energy states require $\Omega(n)$ T gates}, year = {2023}, month = {10/2/2023}, abstract = {

The recent resolution of the NLTS Conjecture [ABN22] establishes a prerequisite to the Quantum PCP (QPCP) Conjecture through a novel use of newly-constructed QLDPC codes [LZ22]. Even with NLTS now solved, there remain many independent and unresolved prerequisites to the QPCP Conjecture, such as the NLSS Conjecture of [GL22]. In this work we focus on a specific and natural prerequisite to both NLSS and the QPCP Conjecture, namely, the existence of local Hamiltonians whose low-energy states all require ω(logn) T gates to prepare. In fact, we prove a stronger result which is not necessarily implied by either conjecture: we construct local Hamiltonians whose low-energy states require Ω(n) T gates. Following a previous work [CCNN23], we further show that our procedure can be applied to the NLTS Hamiltonians of [ABN22] to yield local Hamiltonians whose low-energy states require both Ω(logn)-depth and Ω(n) T gates to prepare. Our results utilize a connection between T-count and stabilizer groups, which was recently applied in the context of learning low T-count states [GIKL23a, GIKL23b, GIKL23c].

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01347}, author = {Nolan J. Coble and Matthew Coudron and Jon Nelson and Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi} } @article {3305, title = {High-Energy Collision of Quarks and Hadrons in the Schwinger Model: From Tensor Networks to Circuit QED}, year = {2023}, month = {7/5/2023}, abstract = {

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 electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions. Working in the bosonized formulation of the model, we propose an analog circuit-QED implementation that is native to the platform, requires minimal ingredients and approximations, and enables practical schemes for particle wave-packet preparation and evolution. Furthermore, working in the thermodynamic limit, we use uniform-matrix-product-state tensor networks to construct multi-particle wave-packet states, evolve them in time, and detect outgoing particles post collision. This facilitates the numerical simulation of scattering experiments in both confined and deconfined regimes of the model at different energies, giving rise to rich phenomenology, including inelastic production of quark and meson states, meson disintegration, and dynamical string formation and breaking. We obtain elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections, together with time-resolved momentum and position distributions of the outgoing particles. This study highlights the role of classical and quantum simulation in enhancing our understanding of scattering processes in quantum field theories in real time.

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02522}, author = {Ron Belyansky and Seth Whitsitt and Niklas Mueller and Ali Fahimniya and Elizabeth R. Bennewitz and Zohreh Davoudi and Alexey V. Gorshkov} } @article {2913, title = {Hamiltonian simulation with random inputs}, journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 270502}, volume = {129}, year = {2022}, month = {12/30/2022}, abstract = {

The algorithmic error of digital quantum simulations is usually explored in terms of the spectral norm distance between the actual and ideal evolution operators. In practice, this worst-case error analysis may be unnecessarily pessimistic. To address this, we develop a theory of average-case performance of Hamiltonian simulation with random initial states. We relate the average-case error to the Frobenius norm of the multiplicative error and give upper bounds for the product formula (PF) and truncated Taylor series methods. As applications, we estimate average-case error for digital Hamiltonian simulation of general lattice Hamiltonians and k-local Hamiltonians. In particular, for the nearest-neighbor Heisenberg chain with n spins, the error is quadratically reduced from O(n) in the worst case to O(n\−\−\√) on average for both the PF method and the Taylor series method. Numerical evidence suggests that this theory accurately characterizes the average error for concrete models. We also apply our results to error analysis in the simulation of quantum scrambling.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.270502}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04773}, author = {Qi Zhao and You Zhou and Alexander F. Shaw and Tongyang Li and Andrew M. Childs} } @article {3190, title = {Higher-group symmetry in finite gauge theory and stabilizer codes}, year = {2022}, month = {11/21/2022}, abstract = {

A large class of gapped phases of matter can be described by topological finite group gauge theories. In this paper, we derive the d-group global symmetry and its \&$\#$39;t Hooft anomaly for topological finite group gauge theories in (d+1) space-time dimensions, including non-Abelian gauge groups and Dijkgraaf-Witten twists. We focus on the 1-form symmetry generated by invertible (Abelian) magnetic defects and the higher-form symmetries generated by invertible topological defects decorated with lower dimensional gauged symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. We show that due to a generalization of the Witten effect and charge-flux attachment, the 1-form symmetry generated by the magnetic defects mixes with other symmetries into a higher group. We describe such higher-group symmetry in various lattice model examples. We discuss several applications, including the classification of fermionic SPT phases in (3+1)D for general fermionic symmetry groups, where we also derive a simpler formula for the [O5]\∈H5(BG,U(1)) obstruction than has appeared in previous work. We also show how the d-group symmetry is related to fault-tolerant non-Pauli logical gates and a refined Clifford hierarchy in stabilizer codes. We construct new logical gates in stabilizer codes using the d-group symmetry, such as the control-Z gate in (3+1)D Z2 toric code.

}, keywords = {FOS: Mathematics, FOS: Physical sciences, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Quantum Algebra (math.QA), Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)}, doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2211.11764}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11764}, author = {Barkeshli, Maissam and Chen, Yu-An and Hsin, Po-Shen and Kobayashi, Ryohei} } @article {2944, title = {How to build Hamiltonians that transport noncommuting charges in quantum thermodynamics}, journal = {npj Quantum Inf}, volume = {8}, year = {2022}, month = {01/27/2022}, abstract = {

Noncommuting conserved quantities have recently launched a subfield of quantum thermodynamics. In conventional thermodynamics, a system of interest and a bath exchange quantities -- energy, particles, electric charge, etc. -- that are globally conserved and are represented by Hermitian operators. These operators were implicitly assumed to commute with each other, until a few years ago. Freeing the operators to fail to commute has enabled many theoretical discoveries -- about reference frames, entropy production, resource-theory models, etc. Little work has bridged these results from abstract theory to experimental reality. This paper provides a methodology for building this bridge systematically: We present an algorithm for constructing Hamiltonians that conserve noncommuting quantities globally while transporting the quantities locally. The Hamiltonians can couple arbitrarily many subsystems together and can be integrable or nonintegrable. Special cases of our construction have appeared in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our Hamiltonians may be realized physically with superconducting qudits, with ultracold atoms, with trapped ions, and in QCD.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-022-00516-4}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14041v1}, author = {Nicole Yunger Halpern and Shayan Majidy} } @article {2812, title = {Higher cup products on hypercubic lattices: application to lattice models of topological phases}, year = {2021}, month = {6/9/2021}, abstract = {

In this paper, we derive the explicit formula for higher cup products on hypercubic lattices, based on the recently developed geometrical interpretation in the simplicial case. We illustrate how this formalism can elucidate lattice constructions on hypercubic lattices for various models and deriving them from spacetime actions. In particular, we demonstrate explicitly that the (3+1)D SPT S=12\∫w22+w41 (where w1 and w2 are the first and second Stiefel-Whitney classes) is dual to the 3-fermion Walker-Wang model constructed on the cubic lattice by Burnell-Chen-Fidkowski-Vishwanath. Other examples include the double-semion model, and also the {\textquoteleft}fermionic\&$\#$39; toric code in arbitrary dimensions on hypercubic lattices. In addition, we extend previous constructions of exact boson-fermion dualities and the Gu-Wen Grassmann Integral to arbitrary dimensions. Another result which may be of independent interest is a derivation of a cochain-level action for the generalized double-semion model, reproducing a recently derived action on the cohomology level.

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05274}, author = {Yu-An Chen and Sri Tata} } @article {2543, title = {High-precision quantum algorithms for partial differential equations}, journal = {Quantum 5, 574}, volume = {5}, year = {2021}, month = {11/4/2021}, abstract = {

Quantum computers can produce a quantum encoding of the solution of a system of differential equations exponentially faster than a classical algorithm can produce an explicit description. However, while high-precision quantum algorithms for linear ordinary differential equations are well established, the best previous quantum algorithms for linear partial differential equations (PDEs) have complexity poly(1/ε), where ε is the error tolerance. By developing quantum algorithms based on adaptive-order finite difference methods and spectral methods, we improve the complexity of quantum algorithms for linear PDEs to be poly(d,log(1/ε)), where d is the spatial dimension. Our algorithms apply high-precision quantum linear system algorithms to systems whose condition numbers and approximation errors we bound. We develop a finite difference algorithm for the Poisson equation and a spectral algorithm for more general second-order elliptic equations.\ 

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2021-11-10-574}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07868}, author = {Andrew M. Childs and Jin-Peng Liu and Aaron Ostrander} } @article {2924, title = {How to engineer a quantum wavefunction}, year = {2021}, month = {12/2/2021}, abstract = {

In a conventional experiment, inductive inferences between source and target systems are typically justified with reference to a uniformity principle between systems of the same material type. In an analogue quantum simulation, by contrast, scientists aim to learn about target quantum systems of one material type via an experiment on a source quantum system of a different material type. In this paper, we argue that such an inference can be justified by reference to the two quantum systems being of the same empirical type. We illustrate this novel experimental practice of wavefunction engineering with reference to the example of Bose-Hubbard systems.\ 

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01105}, author = {Peter W. Evans and Dominik Hangleiter and Karim P. Y. Th{\'e}bault} } @article {2771, title = {Hyper-Invariant MERA: Approximate Holographic Error Correction Codes with Power-Law Correlations}, year = {2021}, month = {3/15/2021}, abstract = {

We consider a class of holographic tensor networks that are efficiently contractible variational ansatze, manifestly (approximate) quantum error correction codes, and can support power-law correlation functions. In the case when the network consists of a single type of tensor that also acts as an erasure correction code, we show that it cannot be both locally contractible and sustain power-law correlation functions. Motivated by this no-go theorem, and the desirability of local contractibility for an efficient variational ansatz, we provide guidelines for constructing networks consisting of multiple types of tensors that can support power-law correlation. We also provide an explicit construction of one such network, which approximates the holographic HaPPY pentagon code in the limit where variational parameters are taken to be small.

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08631}, author = {ChunJun Cao and Jason Pollack and Yixu Wang} } @article {2577, title = {Hierarchy of linear light cones with long-range interactions}, journal = {Physical Review X}, volume = {10}, year = {2020}, month = {5/29/2020}, abstract = {

In quantum many-body systems with local interactions, quantum information and entanglement cannot spread outside of a \"linear light cone,\" which expands at an emergent velocity analogous to the speed of light. Yet most non-relativistic physical systems realized in nature have long-range interactions: two degrees of freedom separated by a distance r interact with potential energy V(r)\∝1/rα. In systems with long-range interactions, we rigorously establish a hierarchy of linear light cones: at the same α, some quantum information processing tasks are constrained by a linear light cone while others are not. In one spatial dimension, commutators of local operators \⟨ψ|[Ox(t),Oy]|ψ\⟩ are negligible in every state |ψ\⟩ when |x\−y|≳vt, where v is finite when α\>3 (Lieb-Robinson light cone); in a typical state |ψ\⟩ drawn from the infinite temperature ensemble, v is finite when α\>52 (Frobenius light cone); in non-interacting systems, v is finite in every state when α\>2 (free light cone). These bounds apply to time-dependent systems and are optimal up to subalgebraic improvements. Our theorems regarding the Lieb-Robinson and free light cones, and their tightness, also generalize to arbitrary dimensions. We discuss the implications of our bounds on the growth of connected correlators and of topological order, the clustering of correlations in gapped systems, and the digital simulation of systems with long-range interactions. In addition, we show that quantum state transfer and many-body quantum chaos are bounded by the Frobenius light cone, and therefore are poorly constrained by all Lieb-Robinson bounds.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031009}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11509}, author = {Minh C. Tran and Chi-Fang Chen and Adam Ehrenberg and Andrew Y. Guo and Abhinav Deshpande and Yifan Hong and Zhe-Xuan Gong and Alexey V. Gorshkov and Andrew Lucas} } @article {2498, title = {Hilbert-Space Fragmentation from Strict Confinement}, journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.}, volume = {124}, year = {2020}, month = {5/22/2020}, abstract = {

We study one-dimensional spin-1/2 models in which strict confinement of Ising domain walls leads to the fragmentation of Hilbert space into exponentially many disconnected subspaces. Whereas most of the previous works emphasize dipole moment conservation as an essential ingredient for such fragmentation, we instead require two commuting U(1) conserved quantities associated with the total domain-wall number and the total magnetization. The latter arises naturally from the confinement of domain walls. Remarkably, while some connected components of the Hilbert space thermalize, others are integrable by Bethe ansatz. We further demonstrate how this Hilbert-space fragmentation pattern arises perturbatively in the confining limit of Z2 gauge theory coupled to fermionic matter, leading to a hierarchy of time scales for motion of the fermions. This model can be realized experimentally in two complementary settings.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.207602}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04300}, author = {Zhi-Cheng Yang and Fangli Liu and Alexey V. Gorshkov and Thomas Iadecola} } @article {2365, title = {Heisenberg-Scaling Measurement Protocol for Analytic Functions with Quantum Sensor Networks}, journal = {Phys. Rev. A}, volume = {100}, year = {2019}, month = {10/7/2019}, abstract = {

We generalize past work on quantum sensor networks to show that, for d input parameters, entanglement can yield a factor O(d) improvement in mean squared error when estimating an analytic function of these parameters. We show that the protocol is optimal for qubit sensors, and conjecture an optimal protocol for photons passing through interferometers. Our protocol is also applicable to continuous variable measurements, such as one quadrature of a field operator. We outline a few potential applications, including calibration of laser operations in trapped ion quantum computing.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.042304}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09042}, author = {Kevin Qian and Zachary Eldredge and Wenchao Ge and Guido Pagano and Christopher Monroe and James V. Porto and Alexey V. Gorshkov} } @article {2400, title = {How Low Can Vacuum Energy Go When Your Fields Are Finite-Dimensional?}, year = {2019}, month = {05/11/2019}, abstract = {

According to the holographic bound, there is only a finite density of degrees of freedom in space when gravity is taken into account. Conventional quantum field theory does not conform to this bound, since in this framework, infinitely many degrees of freedom may be localized to any given region of space. In this essay, we explore the viewpoint that quantum field theory may emerge from an underlying theory that is locally finite-dimensional, and we construct a locally finite-dimensional version of a Klein-Gordon scalar field using generalized Clifford algebras. Demanding that the finite-dimensional field operators obey a suitable version of the canonical commutation relations makes this construction essentially unique. We then find that enforcing local finite dimensionality in a holographically consistent way leads to a huge suppression of the quantum contribution to vacuum energy, to the point that the theoretical prediction becomes plausibly consistent with observations.

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11199}, author = {ChunJun Cao and Aidan Chatwin-Davies and Ashmeet Singh} } @article {2302, title = {High Purity Single Photons Entangled with an Atomic Memory}, year = {2018}, abstract = {

Trapped atomic ions are an ideal candidate for quantum network nodes, with long-lived identical qubit memories that can be locally entangled through their Coulomb interaction and remotely entangled through photonic channels. The integrity of this photonic interface is generally reliant on purity of single photons produced by the quantum memory. Here we demonstrate a single-photon source for quantum networking based on a trapped 138Ba+ ion with a single photon purity of g2(0)=(8.1\±2.3)\×10\−5 without background subtraction. We further optimize the tradeoff between the photonic generation rate and the memory-photon entanglement fidelity for the case of polarization photonic qubits by tailoring the spatial mode of the collected light.\ 

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01749}, author = {Clayton Crocker and Martin Lichtman and Ksenia Sosnova and Allison Carter and Sophia Scarano and Christopher Monroe} } @article {2147, title = {High-fidelity quantum gates in Si/SiGe double quantum dots}, journal = {Physical Review B}, volume = {97}, year = {2018}, month = {2018/02/15}, pages = {085421}, abstract = {

Motivated by recent experiments of Zajac\ et\ al.\ [Science359, 439 (2018)], we theoretically describe high-fidelity two-qubit gates using the exchange interaction between the spins in neighboring quantum dots subject to a magnetic field gradient. We use a combination of analytical calculations and numerical simulations to provide the optimal pulse sequences and parameter settings for the gate operation. We present a synchronization method which avoids detrimental spin flips during the gate operation and provide details about phase mismatches accumulated during the two-qubit gates which occur due to residual exchange interaction, nonadiabatic pulses, and off-resonant driving. By adjusting the gate times, synchronizing the resonant and off-resonant transitions, and compensating these phase mismatches by phase control, the overall gate fidelity can be increased significantly.

}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.97.085421}, url = {https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.085421}, author = {Maximilian Russ and D. M. Zajac and A. J. Sigillito and F. Borjans and J. M. Taylor and J. R. Petta and Guido Burkard} } @article {2300, title = {Holographic Complexity of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton Gravity}, journal = {J. High Energ. Phys. }, volume = {106}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, abstract = {

We study the holographic complexity of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton gravity using the recently proposed \"complexity = volume\" and \"complexity = action\" dualities. The model we consider has a ground state that is represented in the bulk via a so-called hyperscaling violating geometry. We calculate the action growth of the Wheeler-DeWitt patch of the corresponding black hole solution at non-zero temperature and find that, in the presence of violations of hyperscaling, there is a parametric enhancement of the action growth rate. We partially match this behavior to simple tensor network models which can capture aspects of hyperscaling violation. We also exhibit the switchback effect in complexity growth using shockwave geometries and comment on a subtlety of our action calculations when the metric is discontinuous at a null surface.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)106}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09826}, author = {Brian Swingle and Yixu Wang} } @article {1812, title = {Hamiltonian Simulation with Optimal Sample Complexity}, journal = {npj Quantum Information}, volume = {13}, year = {2017}, month = {2017/03/31}, abstract = {
We investigate the sample complexity of Hamiltonian simulation: how many copies of an unknown quantum state are required to simulate a Hamiltonian encoded by the density matrix of that state? We show that the procedure proposed by Lloyd, Mohseni, and Rebentrost [Nat. Phys., 10(9):631--633, 2014] is optimal for this task. We further extend their method to the case of multiple input states, showing how to simulate any Hermitian polynomial of the states provided. As applications, we derive optimal algorithms for commutator simulation and orthogonality testing, and we give a protocol for creating a coherent superposition of pure states, when given sample access to those states. We also show that this sample-based Hamiltonian simulation can be used as the basis of a universal model of quantum computation that requires only partial swap operations and simple single-qubit states.
}, doi = {10.1038/s41534-017-0013-7}, url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-017-0013-7}, author = {Shelby Kimmel and Cedric Yen-Yu Lin and Guang Hao Low and Maris Ozols and Theodore J. Yoder} } @article {1955, title = {High-Order Multipole Radiation from Quantum Hall States in Dirac Materials}, journal = {Physical Review B}, volume = {95}, year = {2017}, month = {2017/06/30}, pages = {235439}, abstract = {

Topological states can exhibit electronic coherence on macroscopic length scales. When the coherence length exceeds the wavelength of light, one can expect new phenomena to occur in the optical response of these states. We theoretically characterize this limit for integer quantum Hall states in two-dimensional Dirac materials. We find that the radiation from the bulk is dominated by dipole emission, whose spectral properties vary with the local disorder potential. On the other hand, the radiation from the edge is characterized by large multipole moments in the far-field associated with the efficient transfer of angular momentum from the electrons into the scattered light. These results demonstrate that high-order multipole transitions are a necessary component for the optical spectroscopy and control of quantum Hall and related topological states in electronic systems.

}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.95.235439}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03464}, author = {Michael Gullans and J. M. Taylor and Atac Imamoglu and Pouyan Ghaemi and Mohammad Hafezi} } @article {1694, title = {High resolution adaptive imaging of a single atom}, journal = {Nature Photonics}, year = {2016}, month = {2016/07/18}, pages = {606-610}, abstract = {

We report the optical imaging of a single atom with nanometer resolution using an adaptive optical alignment technique that is applicable to general optical microscopy. By decomposing the image of a single laser-cooled atom, we identify and correct optical aberrations in the system and realize an atomic position sensitivity of \≈ 0.5 nm/Hz\−\−\−\√ with a minimum uncertainty of 1.7 nm, allowing the direct imaging of atomic motion. This is the highest position sensitivity ever measured for an isolated atom, and opens up the possibility of performing out-of-focus 3D particle tracking, imaging of atoms in 3D optical lattices or sensing forces at the yoctonewton (10\−24 N) scale.

}, doi = {10.1038/nphoton.2016.136}, url = {https://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v10/n9/full/nphoton.2016.136.html}, author = {J. D. Wong-Campos and K. G. Johnson and Brian Neyenhuis and J. Mizrahi and Chris Monroe} } @article {1781, title = {A Hubbard model for ultracold bosonic atoms interacting via zero-point-energy induced three-body interactions}, journal = {Physical Review A}, volume = {93}, year = {2016}, month = {2016/04/19}, pages = {043616}, abstract = {

We show that for ultra-cold neutral bosonic atoms held in a three-dimensional periodic potential or optical lattice, a Hubbard model with dominant, attractive three-body interactions can be generated. In fact, we derive that the effect of pair-wise interactions can be made small or zero starting from the realization that collisions occur at the zero-point energy of an optical lattice site and the strength of the interactions is energy dependent from effective-range contributions. We determine the strength of the two- and three-body interactions for scattering from van-der-Waals potentials and near Fano-Feshbach resonances. For van-der-Waals potentials, which for example describe scattering of alkaline-earth atoms, we find that the pair-wise interaction can only be turned off for species with a small negative scattering length, leaving the 88Sr isotope a possible candidate. Interestingly, for collisional magnetic Feshbach resonances this restriction does not apply and there often exist magnetic fields where the two-body interaction is small. We illustrate this result for several known narrow resonances between alkali-metal atoms as well as chromium atoms. Finally, we compare the size of the three-body interaction with hopping rates and describe limits due to three-body recombination.

}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.93.043616}, url = {http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.043616}, author = {Saurabh Paul and P. R. Johnson and Eite Tiesinga} } @article {1247, title = {Hamiltonian simulation with nearly optimal dependence on all parameters}, journal = {Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science}, year = {2015}, month = {2015/01/08}, pages = {792-809}, abstract = { We present an algorithm for sparse Hamiltonian simulation that has optimal dependence on all parameters of interest (up to log factors). Previous algorithms had optimal or near-optimal scaling in some parameters at the cost of poor scaling in others. Hamiltonian simulation via a quantum walk has optimal dependence on the sparsity $d$ at the expense of poor scaling in the allowed error $\epsilon$. In contrast, an approach based on fractional-query simulation provides optimal scaling in $\epsilon$ at the expense of poor scaling in $d$. Here we combine the two approaches, achieving the best features of both. By implementing a linear combination of quantum walk steps with coefficients given by Bessel functions, our algorithm achieves near-linear scaling in $\tau := d \|H\|_{\max} t$ and sublogarithmic scaling in $1/\epsilon$. Our dependence on $\epsilon$ is optimal, and we prove a new lower bound showing that no algorithm can have sublinear dependence on $\tau$. }, doi = {10.1109/FOCS.2015.54}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01715}, author = {Dominic W. Berry and Andrew M. Childs and Robin Kothari} } @article {1477, title = {Hong-Ou-Mandel atom interferometry in tunnel-coupled optical tweezers}, journal = {Science}, volume = {345}, year = {2014}, month = {2014/06/26}, pages = {306 - 309}, abstract = { The quantum statistics of atoms is typically observed in the behavior of an ensemble via macroscopic observables. However, quantum statistics modifies the behavior of even two particles, inducing remarkable consequences that are at the heart of quantum science. Here we demonstrate near-complete control over all the internal and external degrees of freedom of two laser-cooled 87Rb atoms trapped in two optical tweezers. This full controllability allows us to implement a massive-particle analog of a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer where atom tunneling plays the role of a photon beamsplitter. We use the interferometer to probe the effect of quantum statistics on the two-atom dynamics under tunable initial conditions, chosen to adjust the degree of atomic indistinguishability. Our work thereby establishes laser-cooled atoms in optical tweezers as a new route to bottom-up engineering of scalable, low-entropy quantum systems. }, doi = {10.1126/science.1250057}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7182v2}, author = {A. M. Kaufman and B. J. Lester and C. M. Reynolds and M. L. Wall and Michael Foss-Feig and K. R. A. Hazzard and A. M. Rey and C. A. Regal} } @article {1227, title = {Hamiltonian Simulation Using Linear Combinations of Unitary Operations}, journal = {Quantum Information and Computation}, volume = {12}, year = {2012}, month = {2012/11/01}, pages = {901-924}, abstract = { We present a new approach to simulating Hamiltonian dynamics based on implementing linear combinations of unitary operations rather than products of unitary operations. The resulting algorithm has superior performance to existing simulation algorithms based on product formulas and, most notably, scales better with the simulation error than any known Hamiltonian simulation technique. Our main tool is a general method to nearly deterministically implement linear combinations of nearby unitary operations, which we show is optimal among a large class of methods. }, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5822v1}, author = {Andrew M. Childs and Nathan Wiebe} } @article {1469, title = {Heavy fermions in an optical lattice}, journal = {Physical Review A}, volume = {82}, year = {2010}, month = {2010/11/22}, abstract = { We employ a mean-field theory to study ground-state properties and transport of a two-dimensional gas of ultracold alklaline-earth metal atoms governed by the Kondo Lattice Hamiltonian plus a parabolic confining potential. In a homogenous system this mean-field theory is believed to give a qualitatively correct description of heavy fermion metals and Kondo insulators: it reproduces the Kondo-like scaling of the quasiparticle mass in the former, and the same scaling of the excitation gap in the latter. In order to understand ground-state properties in a trap we extend this mean-field theory via local-density approximation. We find that the Kondo insulator gap manifests as a shell structure in the trapped density profile. In addition, a strong signature of the large Fermi surface expected for heavy fermion systems survives the confinement, and could be probed in time-of-flight experiments. From a full self-consistent diagonalization of the mean-field theory we are able to study dynamics in the trap. We find that the mass enhancement of quasiparticle excitations in the heavy Fermi liquid phase manifests as slowing of the dipole oscillations that result from a sudden displacement of the trap center. }, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.82.053624}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.5083v1}, author = {Michael Foss-Feig and Michael Hermele and Victor Gurarie and Ana Maria Rey} } @article {1354, title = {High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution}, journal = {Nature Physics}, volume = {4}, year = {2008}, month = {2008/9/14}, pages = {810 - 816}, abstract = {We present a novel approach to the detection of weak magnetic fields that takes advantage of recently developed techniques for the coherent control of solid-state electron spin quantum bits. Specifically, we investigate a magnetic sensor based on Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in room-temperature diamond. We discuss two important applications of this technique: a nanoscale magnetometer that could potentially detect precession of single nuclear spins and an optical magnetic field imager combining spatial resolution ranging from micrometers to millimeters with a sensitivity approaching few femtotesla/Hz$^{1/2}$. }, doi = {10.1038/nphys1075}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1367v1}, author = {J. M. Taylor and P. Cappellaro and L. Childress and L. Jiang and D. Budker and P. R. Hemmer and A. Yacoby and R. Walsworth and M. D. Lukin} } @article {bao1996hodge, title = {A Hodge decomposition theorem for Finsler spaces}, journal = {Comptes rendus de l{\textquoteright}Acad{\'e}mie des sciences. S{\'e}rie 1, Math{\'e}matique}, volume = {323}, number = {1}, year = {1996}, month = {1996/01/01}, pages = {51{\textendash}56}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {Soit (M,F) une vari\e{\textquoteright}t{\'e} finsl{\'e}rienne compacte sans bord. On donne une condition n{\'e}cessaire et suffisante, portant sur le tenseur fondamental, afin q{\textquoteright}une forme diff{\'e}rentielle ext{\'e}rieure de M soit harmonique. On introduit aussi le laplacien sur M et on d{\'e}montre l{\textquoteright}analoque du th{\'e}or{\`e}me de Hodge dans le cas finsl{\'e}rien.}, author = {Bao, David and Brad Lackey} }