Quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories on superconducting circuits:Quantum phase transition and quench dynamics

• 作者: Zi-Yong Ge Rui-Zhen Huang Zi-Yang Meng Heng Fan
• 来源期刊: 中国物理B（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: GENERAL
• 页码范围: 242-248
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac380e

摘要

Recently,quantum simulation of low-dimensional lattice gauge theories (LGTs) has attracted many interests,which may improve our understanding of strongly correlated quantum many-body systems.Here,we propose an implementation to approximate Z2 LGT on superconducting quantum circuits,where the effective theory is a mixture of a LGT and a gauge-broken term.By using matrix product state based methods,both the ground state properties and quench dynamics are systematically investigated.With an increase of the transverse (electric) field,the system displays a quantum phase transition from a disordered phase to a translational symmetry breaking phase.In the ordered phase,an approximate Gauss law of the Z2 LGT emerges in the ground state.Moreover,to shed light on the experiments,we also study the quench dynamics,where there is a dynamical signature of the spontaneous translational symmetry breaking.The spreading of the single particle of matter degree is diffusive under the weak transverse field,while it is ballistic with small velocity for the strong field.Furthermore,due to the emergent Gauss law under the strong transverse field,the matter degree can also exhibit confinement dynamics which leads to a strong suppression of the nearest-neighbor hopping.Our results pave the way for simulating the LGT on superconducting circuits,including the quantum phase transition and quench dynamics.